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Kazakhstan: Lake Balkhash – the next Aral?

1. December 2014 | Kazakhstan, n-ost, Stories | 0 |

Kazakhstan’s Lake Balkhash is under threat of drying up. The history of the Aral Sea is being repeated: On the other side of the border in China, dam after dam is being built on the rivers that feed Lake Balkhash, and each one...

Shrinking lake in Kazakhstan portends hard, dry times ahead

6. November 2011 | Kazakhstan, Stories, The Washington Times | 0 |

In eastern Kazakhstan, a lake is slowly dying. But in this village of 1,800 people on the...

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Kazakhstan: Lake Balkhash – the next Aral?

Shrinking lake in Kazakhstan portends hard, dry times ahead

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Tag: Aral sea

Kazakhstan: Lake Balkhash – the next Aral?

Shrinking lake in Kazakhstan portends hard, dry times ahead

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Photography

The Children of the Cold War

Photo-Essay

Of Houses and Men

Architecture

Balkhash

Photo-Essay

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