Cant imagine why the soviets didnt react in 1986. If i had seen picture b i would have reduced or stopped irregation from the rivers immediatly. I think at c the sea was saveable. But now? If the North Aral sea can be saved its good. Where is the german green party when you need them? Giving this poor states money to reduce water usage by using it efficient would be much better then bicycle ways in Peru.
Would that not be bad ? It is restorable any time and It will actually benefit RUe, kazakh. The Aral sea parent rivers were rerouted to other countries to help desert problem. Is it alright to retake their water
1.The great barrier reef is in a record high, the third year in row, since the beginning of recordings. 2. with increasing CO2 levels the amount of green land is growing steadily.
You have to get away from the climate alarmist nuts and you’ll find more good climate news. No, tbere aren’t polar bears sweating to death in the Arctic. I remember in the 80s acid rain was all the rage. In the 90s, it was some massive unrepairable hole in the ozone layer above the Antarctic. Now? It’s global warming/global cooling/a butterfly flapped its wings in Tibet. People really need to stop being so gullible believing all of these centre-left governments in western society and the propaganda the media spews.
Well you can ignore the climate alarmists with their propaganda. When the 80s acid rain never happened and the 90s ozone hole crisis suddenly ended, how do people still feed into these governments with their fear factors?
There's acctually a lot more good news for nature than we think, and great progress around the world is being covered! Negative news just usually get more attention
Vast wetlands of the Mississippi and mid west, seasonal floodplains, higher soil moisture levels, millions of beaver lakes all contributed to a very shallow landbased evaporative surface which allowed for continental meterological systems to have their rain and snow fall recycled back into the atmosphere. Add atmospheric rivers which had enhanced so many systems. The California droughts have little to do with CO2 and everything to do with this continental scaled draining of the land.
@@JFJ12 yes it's the actual reason why soviet diverted it (even today, Uzbekistan aren't willing to do the same as Kazakhstan did, since it will distrub their cotton)
The drying of the Aral lake has to be the greatest environmental disaster in the history of mankind, and it’s not even a contest. If we can reverse it, we can do anything.
We got a pretty big global one folding in front of our eyes, I hope that we change the ways our economies work to start seriously addressing it, the market is surely not fixing it.
The photo you used at 3:38 actually looks exactly like a massive irrigation system built in South Africa. A fascinating story in itself, considering they built it almost entirely by hand and it's completely gravity fed. It just reminded me of it, a real blast from the past.
I hope the slow resurgence of the sea doesn't embolden the greedy to try to make more farmland and extract more water. Positive results from conservation efforts seem to give developers justification they can cram more people into the desert.. at least here in the US.
See: demographic projections, which are available for every national population on earth. Only Africa is presently projected to continue the overbloom.
Western countries are only growing in population due to immigration, which of course makes it even more unaffordable for the existing population to raise children, until the entire country is replaced by people who come from elsewhere - hence "replacement migration" neoliberal economics is not sustainable
Thankfully this is mostly a western capital line of thinking. Skirting disaster only to use it to boost profit margins is an American tradition older than all others
Thanks for the info. Years ago I read about the north Aral sea to showing progress to recover somewhat. Great there is hope after all. Would be a benefit for all humanity to restore the toxic dusty wasteland into a thriving lake. It would improve the local climate.
Crazy to see that it shrunk so quickly, basically during my childhood and teen years. I'm very glad to hear this news that the restoration is proceeding well!
Great stuff The Aral Sea is (or was) pretty remote from Europe, but there's one thing I remember from school English: .. for many a league The shorn and parcell'd Oxus [Amu Darya] strains along Through beds of sand and matted rushy isles - Oxus, forgetting the bright speed he had In his high mountain-cradle in Pamere [the Pamir mountains], A foil'd circuitous wanderer - till at last The long'd-for dash of waves is heard, and wide His luminous home of waters opens, bright And tranquil, from whose floor the new-bathed stars Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea. -- Matthew Arnold, 'Sohrab and Rustum' (1853)
Well i wouldn't be that much optimistic because Turkmenistan still takes the water it wants, and is building an artificial lake futher to the south. Afghanistan is also building their own canal and they give no information whatsoever how much water they are going to take, nor they want to engage in negotiations. Meanwhile Kazakhstan is the only doing something. To belive the all see can be restaured is a bit of wishful thinking, unless there is favourable climate change. The see bed could be cleaned and in the mean time in Uzbekistan new ares could be created for smaller basins where the water level could rise because right now evaporation is the main reason for water scarecy.
Is it possible to “steal” water when they are downstream? Kazakhstan has the lake and the rivers before they reach uzbekistan and afghanistan. Wouldn’t they control the flow entirely?
@@maxsmith8196Kazakhstan only controls the northern half of the sea. Uzbekistan owns the southern half and I’m assuming all of the outgoing rivers and canals
@@maxsmith8196 Check out the tributaries of the Aral Sea! With the Syr Darya, your assumption is - partially - correct, but the Amu Darya comes from the south and arises between Afghanistan and Tajikistan, only to then run through Turkmenistan and then reach the Aral Sea through Uzbekistan. The second tributary is primarily the problem, as Afghanistan is actively working on a canal that would use the waters of the Amu Darya.
@maxsmith8196 there are 2 rivers that were the water source of the sea, the Amu Daria and the Syr Daria. The Syr Daria runs mostly through Kazakhstan, it stars at Kyrgyzstan and passes through Tajikistan. This river has more afluentes and is less subjected to irrigation. Several projects implemented diminished the waste of water in the irrigation canals. This is the river that sources water to the North Aral sea, this sea roose after building a 12km damm and has been stable since then. The other river the Amu Daria begins in Afghanistan in the Panir region and follows the Afghan border with Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan, than enters in Turkmenistan and further north enters back again in Uzbekistan where it would end in the South Aral Sea. A big canal exists right at the Turkmen Uzbek and Afghanistani border the Karakum Canal it takes alot of the water of the river, 25%. Lately the Türken government is taking even more water. As the river flows in the Turkmen and Uzbek plains many small canals take water to irritate wast fields of cotton and other water intensive cultures. The Amu Daria arrives at the Aral Sea almost dry. In some springs it floods some parts of the Aral see creating swamps. The some also happens in the Damm between the south and the north Aral See. The is a project to rise the dam in 3 meters to increase the North Aral see in 50% extra volume. Since the Taliban got back to power a new canal is being built and will take an no disclosed amount of water from the Amu Daria.
Central Asia would be a great place to introduce Israeli-style agricultural methods that significantly reduce water usage for growing crops. The less water used, the more that can go into the Aral Sea. This was a nicely-done and informative video: I'm looking forward to more like it.
Difference is that , Israel has a coastline . and air currents flowing over that carry out moisture laden breeze with them that are Good candidate to extract moisture from using absorption techniques . Not Central Asia where for most part of the year , except winter & early Spring , there are dry air currents flowing
My man, coastlines got nothing to do with drip irrigation, it just uses 90% less water. You can enhance it with some special terrain mix so the ground keeps the water longer, reducing irtigation need further
it will certainly make climate less extreme in the area. I am from Kazakhstan and in the winter the winds from Siberia reach up to Uzbekistan sometimes. And before that it was more mild. And in summer in also should help with cooling.
If the Central Asian nations can pull this offfin the next decade, they deserve millions upon millions for it. that would be very impressive, and shows just how much they care. Give them more cash and then we can see more local and citizen improvement too. Great work, Uzbeks and Kazakhs!
Water tables in nature have little impermable rock and rivers tend to mark the groundwater levels in the dryland areas around. It was entirely the diversion. A topographical map of Aral Sea would indicater better the progression of area recovery probable, given inflow measurement. As Uzbek cotton was a goal -- cotton is desired , rather surprisingly, for guncotton. Explosive propellants still use the fast burn rates engendered by cotton. Hopefully, that material largely only used for clothing in warm climates, does not continue to be used intensively as export product. What aquatic organisms existed, what endemics? Huge numbers of migratory birds once connected through flyway of which Aral Sea was integral. Amu and Syr Darya still drain Pamir/Karakoram region. The ancient Silk Road cultures of the Central Asian states may have other economic resources. (some of the tree fruits of the mountain valleys of the watershed might surprise those who do not know the origins of what they eat in Europe and North America)
I see everyone saying to plant tree's there but I wouldn't encourage that, where they should plant tree's is on the bank's of the river's that feed it. It can be restored within maybe a decade however the major challenge will be restoring ground water sources.
@ hopefully your civil message may help others with English grammar issues (we all have issues at some time)? I'm sure the; your, you're, there, their, dam, damn, crowd - will not be thankful but instead, "it's only a YT comment bro."
@@briseboy no he means the tree's is on the bank's of the river's that feed it. It can be restored within maybe a decade however the major challenge will be restoring ground water sources. dont you know what a is on the bank's of the river's that feed it. It can be restored within maybe a decade however the major challenge will be restoring ground water sources. is?
I might take a few decades because of the corrupt governments of the surrounding countries. We should restore lake chad, as of current it is almost as nonexistent as the Aral sea
From Matthew Arnold’s poem Sohrab and Rustum a lovely image of the former sea: “till at last The longed-for dash of waves is heard, and wide His luminous home of waters opens, bright And tranquil, from whose floor the new-bathed stars Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea.”
If the downstream nations can hold off on current levels of water consumption from the sea long enough we may be able to see it restored. I would be happy for the locals for that. I also think it would be better for the environment around it as well.
Afghanistan is making their own dam and irrigation system using the Armu Darya river (the southern river that feeds the Aral sea) which is caused by a recent drought and because building it would make new jobs for workers and farmers and generally speaking, it's beneficial to them, so lets see
Mistakes were made in the past and the downfall of the Soviet Union accelerated the negative process, but this is a victory and a global example of what can be done to reverse man-made environmental fiascos.
Somehow, no one calls using Colorado river for farming 'fiasco'. But when it comes to former Soviet countries, they are obliged to abandon their agriculture to restore a giant reservoir in the middle of the desert... for what?
@@UdarRusskihPudgei lol why you defending an environmental disaster, the lake should be restored because humans destroyed it and didn't even benefit as much as they thought. the agricultural project did not reach its goals. There are many types of animals that do/did live in that region so restoring the ecosystem would be to our benefit
@@no-nx3ip if agricultural project 'did not reach its goals', then why didn't they stop it for 35 years of independence? Hint: it's still profitable, and provides food and income to locals. No one will abandon working irrigation system in desert, in the region with rapidly growing population. Go to Google Maps and check Amu Darya valley, and ask yourself if a 'failed' agricultural project can look like this.
@@UdarRusskihPudgei Deserts play a crucial role in the environment. Yes, people unfairly criticize the USSR for anything but stay quiet about the US but your comment isn't it
@ryjitarose5590 And irrigation systems play crucial role for human societies which reside in the desert. For example, irrigation system built by Soviets in Amu Darya valley. For a country that doubled its population since 1980s it is the major source of food and income. It is not like some evil commies drained entire lake out of their irrational hatred to Humankind, this water is directly used to grow vegetables in harsh conditions. So, California and Colorado river seem viable analogy to me.
The system could be further improved by constructing solar panels over the canals, reducing water loss through evaporation, while providing power to local communities. Of course this isn’t cheap to install but it offers a double win.
Nice concise video, but can you share your sources regarding the specific numbers you used (i.e. 1% & 3%) and especially the predicted annual recovery rate?
Cover the waters that accumulate with floating solar panels as well as floating farms. Use the water to also plant regenerative forests and grasslands around the expanding ecosystem.
@@matejbenko8268 What contaminated soil? you know it was salty sea, you know fertilizer from fields flushed down to it... buy any fertilizer, mix it water, add lot of salt. boil off the water. observe what is left. now think of decades of toxic crap deposited in bed of aral. Older the pack of water is, the more toxic it is. now ask "What contaminated soil?
Nice thing about many contaminants is that they settle into the sediment. Then you just have to not disturb that layer of sediment and it won't be an issue. Nature's own "Hide it under the rug" method.
now, that it is empty hust, i would use that time, to remove excess salt residue from evaporated water, so a restored Aral Sea can be sweetwater, at least like Baltic
I checked historical satellite images on Google earth and it is visible that the Aral sea has been constantly shrinking. It does not appear that there is really any restoration effort that would be working.
The resistivity losses of the conductors distributing the power generated will probably make it non viable, however it is a positive (no pun intended) idea. Our urban power (via step-up transformers,Tx) is distributed over distances at v.high voltage to minimise loss, then stepped-down by Tx for urban use. Your solar panel suggestion will have to under-go the same transformation + conversion to AC to achieve distribution Tx action. However if used at/on site (or close to) for pumping and other DC applied duties, sounds like a goer!! Start emailing their consulates and initiate some "go fund me's".
Solar panels are extremely expensive and create a large carbon footprint when being manufactured. One hail storm and they’re destroyed. Solar panels are not practical in any sense. It’s a nice thought like unicorn shit but people don’t look at things peripherally.
Considering water supply is limited across the whole earth, would restoring the Aral Sea help slow sea level rise across the world? since with the hypothetical 'Atlantropa' project, the water from the Mediterranean would have to go somewhere else (the oceans in the rest of the world), and it would artificially raise sea levels, in a similar way we're basically moving water from the ocean through weather systems, it would then end up in a basin that would benefit the people living around it. I doubt that the Aral Sea alone would have a large impact on rise of ocean water, but could definitely be noticeable no? Just some food for thought I suppose, great to see how things are currently going!
What species have gone extinct as a result of the near disappearance of the aral sea? Are there any efforts under way to restore the endangered species and replace extinct species with close substitutes?
What's going to happen with the damming of the Amu Darya River in Afghanistan? Just yesterday a YT video popped up on the right there about the dam. Lots of information but no mention of the Aral Sea.
This is fantastic news. I'm not sure why this restoration doesn't get more publicity. If you watch even very recent videos, they're all about man's destruction of the sea and how gloomy the outlook is.
evaporation, cooling, clouds and rain fall the natural cycles and the less we mess the better billy gates is funding cloud seeding to cool us but here in the UK I ask who gave him the OK? Its cool enough now we can track these twin engined jets aircraft flying from regional airports zig zagging small areas.
However what has left at the bottom of the lake after evaporation is highly toxic. So there would not be any life in the lake after its restoration. It will look like Salton sea in California I guess. So from my point of view it will not provide any new jobs (fishing, recreation etc.), or bring back wildlife, but it will help to reduce toxic sand storms causing lot of cancer and other health problems in the area.
I just went to Google Earth, the latest image is from 09/2024 and every remaining lake is at the lowest it has ever been... Where did you get the data that it is recovering?
How do you grow trees in an arid/semi-arid place? Take it from someone who knows: it’s practically impossible. Even if you could irrigate the trees, quite often the soil has an impermeable hard pan which restricts root growth.
Steppe is high and dry. Trees in mesic and xeric regions tend only to line waters. Initial "blame" for damming was placed about Khrushchev, who unscientifically imagined that that high steppe could be exploited as is the chernozem and low steppe of western agriculturally intensive grain production. Topsoil blew away Other aspects of systems too complex for humans to comprehend ( biological and ecological science education helps, but it is the exploitation that was and remains out of touch with reality), are factors. Mobile device, so i won't elaborate.
nO WaY cAn hUmANs aFfEcT tHe eNVIrOnMeNt 🥴 Yeah we do, and we destroy nearly everything we touch. I hope the folks living in the area can change their ways and recognize their farming and living there in their current numbers is unsustainable. Much like the folks in the U.S. Southwest. I pray the Aral sea can come back in full force. Thank you for this update. This is hopeful news.
@ Not what I said, I have a fair understanding of radiation and energy. If you see it differently lets have it science progress only by questions not opinion.
@@drunkenhobo8020 Absolutely, but guessing CO2 could be responsible makes the responsibility of explaining how yours? There is no known mechanism. and IPCC with the UN did not investigate but trying to prove only it might. Taxing the carbon footprint when they had zero knowledge of radiative physics was green stupidity. Using experimental data from the Pen University the 1400 Clintel scientists and Pro Happer / Linzen proves it is not possible CO2 warming mostly in the first 20ppm decreasing on a log scale thereafter. I did not say I don't understand. but carbon is blamed for the most of the ills ills of the World including Covid and changes to the Barrier Reef. It's clearly not as it's without serious thinking so net zero being the aim can achieve zero effect.
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Cant imagine why the soviets didnt react in 1986. If i had seen picture b i would have reduced or stopped irregation from the rivers immediatly.
I think at c the sea was saveable.
But now? If the North Aral sea can be saved its good.
Where is the german green party when you need them? Giving this poor states money to reduce water usage by using it efficient would be much better then bicycle ways in Peru.
It'll take you 50 years but I can't wait until I see "The Aral Sea Restored Update 2075" in my recommended
Would that not be bad ? It is restorable any time and It will actually benefit RUe, kazakh. The Aral sea parent rivers were rerouted to other countries to help desert problem. Is it alright to retake their water
Hahah you think humanity will be here in 50 years. :')
Nice to have at least some good news on the environmental front.
1.The great barrier reef is in a record high, the third year in row, since the beginning of recordings.
2. with increasing CO2 levels the amount of green land is growing steadily.
*Tengbeng*
There's tons of good news on the environmental front.
You never hear about it - because MSMedia are addicted to bad news.
There is a decent amount. The "good news" channel is a good place to find some. Mossy earth also has some good projects
There’s a lot you have to look for it since the algorithm rewards activity.
You have to get away from the climate alarmist nuts and you’ll find more good climate news. No, tbere aren’t polar bears sweating to death in the Arctic. I remember in the 80s acid rain was all the rage. In the 90s, it was some massive unrepairable hole in the ozone layer above the Antarctic. Now? It’s global warming/global cooling/a butterfly flapped its wings in Tibet. People really need to stop being so gullible believing all of these centre-left governments in western society and the propaganda the media spews.
Finally some positive news for nature.
Well you can ignore the climate alarmists with their propaganda. When the 80s acid rain never happened and the 90s ozone hole crisis suddenly ended, how do people still feed into these governments with their fear factors?
More good news is that deforestation globally has slowed massively and especially in Brazil
There's acctually a lot more good news for nature than we think, and great progress around the world is being covered! Negative news just usually get more attention
This is not unique to the soviets. In California we drained lake Owens to provide water to Los Angeles. And drained Lake Tulare to grow cotton.
yeah, and the Colorado River barely even reaches the sea now
Vast wetlands of the Mississippi and mid west, seasonal floodplains, higher soil moisture levels, millions of beaver lakes all contributed to a very shallow landbased evaporative surface which allowed for continental meterological systems to have their rain and snow fall recycled back into the atmosphere. Add atmospheric rivers which had enhanced so many systems. The California droughts have little to do with CO2 and everything to do with this continental scaled draining of the land.
I believe the Soviets diverted the waters from the Aral Sea for the same reason: to grow cotton.
@@JFJ12 yes it's the actual reason why soviet diverted it (even today, Uzbekistan aren't willing to do the same as Kazakhstan did, since it will distrub their cotton)
Not even close to the same thing
The drying of the Aral lake has to be the greatest environmental disaster in the history of mankind, and it’s not even a contest. If we can reverse it, we can do anything.
I would say climate change is up there on the list
That's climate change. Climate change is by far the greatest environmental catastrophe in the history of mankind, not even a contest.
We got a pretty big global one folding in front of our eyes, I hope that we change the ways our economies work to start seriously addressing it, the market is surely not fixing it.
What do you think of lake Tsjaad
@@oloplyflapdar7384 I agree, I was talking about specific situational disasters
The photo you used at 3:38 actually looks exactly like a massive irrigation system built in South Africa. A fascinating story in itself, considering they built it almost entirely by hand and it's completely gravity fed. It just reminded me of it, a real blast from the past.
Thanks!
Thankyou so much :D
I hope the slow resurgence of the sea doesn't embolden the greedy to try to make more farmland and extract more water.
Positive results from conservation efforts seem to give developers justification they can cram more people into the desert.. at least here in the US.
See: demographic projections, which are available for every national population on earth.
Only Africa is presently projected to continue the overbloom.
Western countries are only growing in population due to immigration, which of course makes it even more unaffordable for the existing population to raise children, until the entire country is replaced by people who come from elsewhere - hence "replacement migration"
neoliberal economics is not sustainable
Thankfully this is mostly a western capital line of thinking. Skirting disaster only to use it to boost profit margins is an American tradition older than all others
Thanks for the info. Years ago I read about the north Aral sea to showing progress to recover somewhat.
Great there is hope after all. Would be a benefit for all humanity to restore the toxic dusty wasteland into a thriving lake. It would improve the local climate.
Thanks for this. We must hope that sanity prevails and the sea is restored.
The glorious nation of Kazakhstan is rising 🇰🇿🇰🇿🇰🇿
VERY NICE!
They still have many problem. Social. Economic. Jew.
so glad to hear some good news. thank you to all who contributed to this.
Crazy to see that it shrunk so quickly, basically during my childhood and teen years. I'm very glad to hear this news that the restoration is proceeding well!
Great stuff The Aral Sea is (or was) pretty remote from Europe, but there's one thing I remember from school English:
.. for many a league
The shorn and parcell'd Oxus [Amu Darya] strains along
Through beds of sand and matted rushy isles -
Oxus, forgetting the bright speed he had
In his high mountain-cradle in Pamere [the Pamir mountains],
A foil'd circuitous wanderer - till at last
The long'd-for dash of waves is heard, and wide
His luminous home of waters opens, bright
And tranquil, from whose floor the new-bathed stars
Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea.
-- Matthew Arnold, 'Sohrab and Rustum' (1853)
Muito bom saber que o mar Aral está sendo recuperado!🙂😊
This is a kind of video I needed, there is little information on the progress that's widely available. Thank you!
I am glad that we are replacing the Sad Millennial Beige with fresh Deep Blue.
Well i wouldn't be that much optimistic because Turkmenistan still takes the water it wants, and is building an artificial lake futher to the south. Afghanistan is also building their own canal and they give no information whatsoever how much water they are going to take, nor they want to engage in negotiations. Meanwhile Kazakhstan is the only doing something. To belive the all see can be restaured is a bit of wishful thinking, unless there is favourable climate change. The see bed could be cleaned and in the mean time in Uzbekistan new ares could be created for smaller basins where the water level could rise because right now evaporation is the main reason for water scarecy.
Is it possible to “steal” water when they are downstream? Kazakhstan has the lake and the rivers before they reach uzbekistan and afghanistan. Wouldn’t they control the flow entirely?
@@maxsmith8196Kazakhstan only controls the northern half of the sea. Uzbekistan owns the southern half and I’m assuming all of the outgoing rivers and canals
@@maxsmith8196 Check out the tributaries of the Aral Sea! With the Syr Darya, your assumption is - partially - correct, but the Amu Darya comes from the south and arises between Afghanistan and Tajikistan, only to then run through Turkmenistan and then reach the Aral Sea through Uzbekistan. The second tributary is primarily the problem, as Afghanistan is actively working on a canal that would use the waters of the Amu Darya.
@maxsmith8196 there are 2 rivers that were the water source of the sea, the Amu Daria and the Syr Daria. The Syr Daria runs mostly through Kazakhstan, it stars at Kyrgyzstan and passes through Tajikistan. This river has more afluentes and is less subjected to irrigation. Several projects implemented diminished the waste of water in the irrigation canals. This is the river that sources water to the North Aral sea, this sea roose after building a 12km damm and has been stable since then. The other river the Amu Daria begins in Afghanistan in the Panir region and follows the Afghan border with Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan, than enters in Turkmenistan and further north enters back again in Uzbekistan where it would end in the South Aral Sea. A big canal exists right at the Turkmen Uzbek and Afghanistani border the Karakum Canal it takes alot of the water of the river, 25%. Lately the Türken government is taking even more water. As the river flows in the Turkmen and Uzbek plains many small canals take water to irritate wast fields of cotton and other water intensive cultures. The Amu Daria arrives at the Aral Sea almost dry. In some springs it floods some parts of the Aral see creating swamps. The some also happens in the Damm between the south and the north Aral See. The is a project to rise the dam in 3 meters to increase the North Aral see in 50% extra volume. Since the Taliban got back to power a new canal is being built and will take an no disclosed amount of water from the Amu Daria.
Central Asia would be a great place to introduce Israeli-style agricultural methods that significantly reduce water usage for growing crops. The less water used, the more that can go into the Aral Sea. This was a nicely-done and informative video: I'm looking forward to more like it.
Difference is that , Israel has a coastline . and air currents flowing over that carry out moisture laden breeze with them that are Good candidate to extract moisture from using absorption techniques . Not Central Asia where for most part of the year , except winter & early Spring , there are dry air currents flowing
My man, coastlines got nothing to do with drip irrigation, it just uses 90% less water. You can enhance it with some special terrain mix so the ground keeps the water longer, reducing irtigation need further
We poured a lot of money to dripping irrigation. But you know corruption and farmers did unwillingly. Results are no idea
@@SirBalageG They could also start growing crops that don't need as much water as cotton.
Using Israel as an example is foolish. They introduce invasive species and destroy the native environment
Encouraging update, thank you!
I wonder if there will be a noticeable impact on on rainfall for a restored lake?
I hope irrigation conservation don't speed up salt build.
it will certainly make climate less extreme in the area. I am from Kazakhstan and in the winter the winds from Siberia reach up to Uzbekistan sometimes. And before that it was more mild. And in summer in also should help with cooling.
Great to get some good news!
Ah, restoring a section of water after such a long time is hard, but glad that it is done.
Excellent news. The first enviromental garden and fish pool of the modern world with easy built-in transport potential.
Very well presented and perfect visual. ❤❤❤
Love the Aral sea
If the Central Asian nations can pull this offfin the next decade, they deserve millions upon millions for it. that would be very impressive, and shows just how much they care. Give them more cash and then we can see more local and citizen improvement too. Great work, Uzbeks and Kazakhs!
nice video. I am following the restoration efforts pretty much since 2005 And I hope to one day visit a lake somewhat restored.
so nice to see!
It seems like it's a very shallow sea, and was very shallow still at it's full size. 😊
Hopefully this is successful seems to be on the right track
This is great news!
Good news !
Fascinating, thanks.
Merci du partage! Stéph.
Water tables in nature have little impermable rock and rivers tend to mark the groundwater levels in the dryland areas around.
It was entirely the diversion. A topographical map of Aral Sea would indicater better the progression of area recovery probable, given inflow measurement.
As Uzbek cotton was a goal -- cotton is desired , rather surprisingly, for guncotton. Explosive propellants still use the fast burn rates engendered by cotton. Hopefully, that material largely only used for clothing in warm climates, does not continue to be used intensively as export product.
What aquatic organisms existed, what endemics?
Huge numbers of migratory birds once connected through flyway of which Aral Sea was integral.
Amu and Syr Darya still drain Pamir/Karakoram region. The ancient Silk Road cultures of the Central Asian states may have other economic resources. (some of the tree fruits of the mountain valleys of the watershed might surprise those who do not know the origins of what they eat in Europe and North America)
I hope they can save it.
A very neccesary endeavor!
Cheers from australia.
I see everyone saying to plant tree's there but I wouldn't encourage that, where they should plant tree's is on the bank's of the river's that feed it. It can be restored within maybe a decade however the major challenge will be restoring ground water sources.
They have been planting trees along the Aral shore for some time now.
*banks
*trees
Apostrophes do not make something plural.
@ hopefully your civil message may help others with English grammar issues (we all have issues at some time)? I'm sure the; your, you're, there, their, dam, damn, crowd - will not be thankful but instead, "it's only a YT comment bro."
...tree is?
Back to 2nd grade.
@@briseboy no he means the tree's is on the bank's of the river's that feed it. It can be restored within maybe a decade however the major challenge will be restoring ground water sources. dont you know what a is on the bank's of the river's that feed it. It can be restored within maybe a decade however the major challenge will be restoring ground water sources. is?
i hope the Euphrates can also be restored. Such a significant and historic river, breaks my heart to see the poor thing in her current form
It will completly dry up as God said.
Thanks for the video. Would be fascinating to hear about how the ground water table and the use of wells has interplay with the surface water
This gives me hope 🥲
Good video, very informative
GET IT BACK RAHH
Nice, next: Lake Urmia
Wait what?!?! They are trying to restore some of the aral sea? I had no idea. Wow thats cool
LETS GOOOO!!!!!!!
I think we should now focus on the decline of Caspian Sea. Could you please make a video about it?
Great news 😅🎉
I might take a few decades because of the corrupt governments of the surrounding countries. We should restore lake chad, as of current it is almost as nonexistent as the Aral sea
Thanks for some uplifting developments 😊
THIS IS SO COOL !
Good to see.
Last step gotta be rebuilding the akranoplan
From Matthew Arnold’s poem Sohrab and Rustum a lovely image of the former sea:
“till at last
The longed-for dash of waves is heard, and wide
His luminous home of waters opens, bright
And tranquil, from whose floor the new-bathed stars
Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea.”
Is there a really water intense crop in the desert around the Aral Sea?
Cotton !!!
Cool
We're so back
If the downstream nations can hold off on current levels of water consumption from the sea long enough we may be able to see it restored. I would be happy for the locals for that. I also think it would be better for the environment around it as well.
Afghanistan is making their own dam and irrigation system using the Armu Darya river (the southern river that feeds the Aral sea) which is caused by a recent drought and because building it would make new jobs for workers and farmers and generally speaking, it's beneficial to them, so lets see
Mistakes were made in the past and the downfall of the Soviet Union accelerated the negative process, but this is a victory and a global example of what can be done to reverse man-made environmental fiascos.
Somehow, no one calls using Colorado river for farming 'fiasco'. But when it comes to former Soviet countries, they are obliged to abandon their agriculture to restore a giant reservoir in the middle of the desert... for what?
@@UdarRusskihPudgei lol why you defending an environmental disaster, the lake should be restored because humans destroyed it and didn't even benefit as much as they thought. the agricultural project did not reach its goals. There are many types of animals that do/did live in that region so restoring the ecosystem would be to our benefit
@@no-nx3ip if agricultural project 'did not reach its goals', then why didn't they stop it for 35 years of independence? Hint: it's still profitable, and provides food and income to locals. No one will abandon working irrigation system in desert, in the region with rapidly growing population. Go to Google Maps and check Amu Darya valley, and ask yourself if a 'failed' agricultural project can look like this.
@@UdarRusskihPudgei Deserts play a crucial role in the environment. Yes, people unfairly criticize the USSR for anything but stay quiet about the US but your comment isn't it
@ryjitarose5590 And irrigation systems play crucial role for human societies which reside in the desert. For example, irrigation system built by Soviets in Amu Darya valley. For a country that doubled its population since 1980s it is the major source of food and income. It is not like some evil commies drained entire lake out of their irrational hatred to Humankind, this water is directly used to grow vegetables in harsh conditions. So, California and Colorado river seem viable analogy to me.
Great!!!!!!
Fish species have gone through many different varieties, from fresh, brackish, and salty. Now going back to fresh.
yay
The system could be further improved by constructing solar panels over the canals, reducing water loss through evaporation, while providing power to local communities. Of course this isn’t cheap to install but it offers a double win.
A good news story
"Aral" means island or insulate in Mongolian, since Mongols saw this giant lake as the 'island' in a sea of sand/semi-arid desert-steppe.
Imagine restoring it and building a city right there to get tourists.
Nice concise video, but can you share your sources regarding the specific numbers you used (i.e. 1% & 3%) and especially the predicted annual recovery rate?
Cover the waters that accumulate with floating solar panels as well as floating farms. Use the water to also plant regenerative forests and grasslands around the expanding ecosystem.
great, then you can irrigate with poisoned water when they break in storms
@@deadlata9767 China, Spain, and Africa are all progressing in returning the desert to fertility. Everything is on youtube.
do they do anything with the contaminated soil? or it just gets flooded and job well done?
What contaminated soil?
The soil is contaminated by lack of water.
@@matejbenko8268 dust in seabed of the arol sea bed is contaminated with fertilizer and bio weapon residue from soviet era testing
@@matejbenko8268 What contaminated soil?
you know it was salty sea, you know fertilizer from fields flushed down to it...
buy any fertilizer, mix it water, add lot of salt. boil off the water. observe what is left. now think of decades of toxic crap deposited in bed of aral. Older the pack of water is, the more toxic it is.
now ask "What contaminated soil?
Industry and fertilizer runoff, Uzbekistan has issues with child mortality over those chemical spills
Nice thing about many contaminants is that they settle into the sediment. Then you just have to not disturb that layer of sediment and it won't be an issue. Nature's own "Hide it under the rug" method.
now, that it is empty hust, i would use that time, to remove excess salt residue from evaporated water, so a restored Aral Sea can be sweetwater, at least like Baltic
экономия воды приведет к тому что новые территории пустыни можно будет использовать под сельское хозяйство. Я не верю что воду отправят в бывшее море.
I checked historical satellite images on Google earth and it is visible that the Aral sea has been constantly shrinking. It does not appear that there is really any restoration effort that would be working.
Last image was taken in 2020, so the efforts of the last 4-5 years do not show.
They should put solar panels over the channels to reduce losses due to evaporation
The resistivity losses of the conductors distributing the power generated will probably make it non viable, however it is a positive (no pun intended) idea. Our urban power (via step-up transformers,Tx) is distributed over distances at v.high voltage to minimise loss, then stepped-down by Tx for urban use. Your solar panel suggestion will have to under-go the same transformation + conversion to AC to achieve distribution Tx action. However if used at/on site (or close to) for pumping and other DC applied duties, sounds like a goer!! Start emailing their consulates and initiate some "go fund me's".
Solar panels are extremely expensive and create a large carbon footprint when being manufactured. One hail storm and they’re destroyed. Solar panels are not practical in any sense. It’s a nice thought like unicorn shit but people don’t look at things peripherally.
Cover the canals with solar panels, as well. Easy money.
Expensive
The solar panels that leave a huge carbon footprint in their manufacturing? And one hail storm and the solar panels are destroyed.
@@oilersridersbluejaysi don't think hail storms often happen near the aral sea...
Considering water supply is limited across the whole earth, would restoring the Aral Sea help slow sea level rise across the world? since with the hypothetical 'Atlantropa' project, the water from the Mediterranean would have to go somewhere else (the oceans in the rest of the world), and it would artificially raise sea levels, in a similar way we're basically moving water from the ocean through weather systems, it would then end up in a basin that would benefit the people living around it.
I doubt that the Aral Sea alone would have a large impact on rise of ocean water, but could definitely be noticeable no? Just some food for thought I suppose, great to see how things are currently going!
Humans are a rather innovative and resilient bunch, are they not? Thanks for the positive news.
use solor panel on the lake.
Did any aquatic life survive?
Not a large variety, but yes there are still fish
I was 14 when I first read about the Aral Sea. Now I am 27, like when will the second dam I always read about be built to bring the sea to Aralsk?
What about Lake Chad?
What species have gone extinct as a result of the near disappearance of the aral sea? Are there any efforts under way to restore the endangered species and replace extinct species with close substitutes?
So, maybe another 50 years.....
What's going to happen with the damming of the Amu Darya River in Afghanistan? Just yesterday a YT video popped up on the right there about the dam. Lots of information but no mention of the Aral Sea.
This is fantastic news. I'm not sure why this restoration doesn't get more publicity. If you watch even very recent videos, they're all about man's destruction of the sea and how gloomy the outlook is.
Doom-posting tends to yield a higher view count
I wonder why a canal system wasn't built between the Aral and Caspian to increase flow and even allow sea traffick from there
Even though the water may go back. All the animals have long died as have the dependent industry
That still is a good exercise in restoration. To see what can be built anew at the literall salty ashes of old.
Are they covering the canals to reduce evaporation? Add solar and hydro power harvesting systems to the covers for addition utility?
evaporation, cooling, clouds and rain fall the natural cycles and the less we mess the better billy gates is funding cloud seeding to cool us but here in the UK I ask who gave him the OK? Its cool enough now we can track these twin engined jets aircraft flying from regional airports zig zagging small areas.
Are there any project for rain water management in that area?
Ott csapadék sincs,sivatag az egész
However what has left at the bottom of the lake after evaporation is highly toxic. So there would not be any life in the lake after its restoration. It will look like Salton sea in California I guess.
So from my point of view it will not provide any new jobs (fishing, recreation etc.), or bring back wildlife, but it will help to reduce toxic sand storms causing lot of cancer and other health problems in the area.
Is the funding for this all local or is there international help? Sounds like a good project for the UN or World Bank!
The UN…🤣
World Bank is for putting poor nations into debt slavery, not for providing financial aid to restore natural balance in the given area. UN is a joke.
I just went to Google Earth, the latest image is from 09/2024 and every remaining lake is at the lowest it has ever been... Where did you get the data that it is recovering?
The people of Russian and Soviet times needed to plant many more trees. They still need to do this today to attract rain.
in Canada they are bulldozing every tree in sight since the big investment companies began buying all the farms
How do you grow trees in an arid/semi-arid place? Take it from someone who knows: it’s practically impossible. Even if you could irrigate the trees, quite often the soil has an impermeable hard pan which restricts root growth.
Trees attract rain? That's one of the most moronic statements I've heard.
Steppe is high and dry.
Trees in mesic and xeric regions tend only to line waters.
Initial "blame" for damming was placed about Khrushchev, who unscientifically imagined that that high steppe could be exploited as is the chernozem and low steppe of western agriculturally intensive grain production.
Topsoil blew away
Other aspects of systems too complex for humans to comprehend ( biological and ecological science education helps, but it is the exploitation that was and remains out of touch with reality), are factors. Mobile device, so i won't elaborate.
I read that the Caspian is now under threat.
What about the new canal being built by Afghanistan
uzbek incompetence will probably make this impossible though, they are crazy about that cotton
They need to dredge away all that exposed salt before filling the lakes, otherwise the lake is just going to end up super saline and polluted
nO WaY cAn hUmANs aFfEcT tHe eNVIrOnMeNt 🥴
Yeah we do, and we destroy nearly everything we touch.
I hope the folks living in the area can change their ways and recognize their farming and living there in their current numbers is unsustainable. Much like the folks in the U.S. Southwest. I pray the Aral sea can come back in full force.
Thank you for this update. This is hopeful news.
Nothing to do with CO2 however, just not within the radiative characteristics of CO2. Unless you have a mechanism for it.
@@BrinJay-s4vJust because you don't understand it doesn't mean it's wrong.
@ Not what I said, I have a fair understanding of radiation and energy. If you see it differently lets have it science progress only by questions not opinion.
@@drunkenhobo8020 Absolutely, but guessing CO2 could be responsible makes the responsibility of explaining how yours?
There is no known mechanism. and IPCC with the UN did not investigate but trying to prove only it might.
Taxing the carbon footprint when they had zero knowledge of radiative physics was green stupidity. Using experimental data from the Pen University the 1400 Clintel scientists and Pro Happer / Linzen proves it is not possible CO2 warming mostly in the first 20ppm decreasing on a log scale thereafter.
I did not say I don't understand. but carbon is blamed for the most of the ills ills of the World including Covid and changes to the Barrier Reef. It's clearly not as it's without serious thinking so net zero being the aim can achieve zero effect.