From ecological Soviet-era ruin, a sea is reborn

Environmental | 206721 hits | Oct 26 6:14 pm | Posted by: Hyack

AKESPE, Kazakhstan ï¿½ Standing on the shore under the relentless Central Asian sun, Badarkhan Prikeyev drew on a cigarette and squinted into the distance as one fishing boat after another returned with the day's catch.

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by KorbenDeck
Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:21 am
Okay so the water is being returned. That's great they will do to the Aral Sea, what they are doing to Lake Baikal. Which is slowly pollute the water until it becomes unusable anymore
by Hyack
Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:42 am
That the government has been able to bring back the Aral Sea is truly amazing, considering it was nothing but a toxic, salty sludge. Lake Baikal, which is in Siberia, is the world's oldest lake and holds 20 per cent of the world's surface freshwater, was declared a World Heritage Site in 1996. In April, 1987 the Soviet government issued a comprehensive decree protecting Lake Baikal. Among other things, it abolished logging anywhere close to the lake shore and decreed that a cellulose plant be "re profiled" for activities harmless to the environment by 1993.
by Toner
Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:13 am
Interesting pics of the sea can be seen at: http://englishrussia.com/?p=2937
by OldChum
Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:45 am
Good for them if they right this wrong we should take the hint as to freshwater transfers and sales .

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