| The river water is saline below 0.7 per mille, while the water in the Aral Sea was brackish with salinity at approximately 9 per mille. |
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| The Aral Sea and the tragic plight of its people is not a freak isolated event, but a crisis that's just slightly ahead of its time. |
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| The Karakalpaks, who live in the desert south of the Aral Sea, have a separate language and tradition more akin to Kazakh than Uzbek. |
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| The Aral Sea, with its thick deposits of salt and chemicals, is now the biggest single collection of dust in the world. |
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| The destruction of the Aral Sea is a textbook example of unsustainable development. |
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| Once the world's fourth largest lake, the mighty Aral Sea is now in its death throes. |
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| Soviet tourists once flocked to Moynaq to swim in the Aral Sea's waters, famed for healing skin diseases, and to sunbathe on pristine beaches. |
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| A similar picture prevails in the Karakalpak part of the Aral Sea basin, where the Muinak fish cannery continues to operate on imported ocean fish of low grade. |
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| The hospitals and health centers in the Aral Sea area lack essential medicines and medical equipment. |
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| Uzbekistan also has oilfields in the Ferghana valley in the north-east, the Ustyurt area, and the Aral Sea. |
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| The largest of these consists of much of the interior of Asia, which drains into the Caspian Sea, the Aral Sea, and numerous smaller lakes. |
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| Today's Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Aral Sea, Lake Urmia, Namak Lake and others are remnants of the Paratethys Sea. |
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| At present, only the Black Sea, Caspian Sea and Aral Sea remain of what was once a vast inland sea. |
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| Other remnants are the Black, Caspian, and Aral Seas via a former inland branch known as the Paratethys. |
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| Another branch of the northern route turned northwest past the Aral Sea and north of the Caspian Sea, then and on to the Black Sea. |
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| On Vozrozhdeniya Island in the Aral Sea, the strongest recipes of smallpox were tested. |
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| In the days of the Soviet Union, the Aral Sea was tapped for agricultural irrigation, largely of cotton, and now salination is widespread. |
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| If the pictures are new, the news of the Aral Sea shrinking is old. |
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| Most of the winged guests have arrived from areas as far as the Caspian Sea, Lake Baikal, Aral Sea, Russia, Mongolia, central and southeast Asia, Ladakh and the Himalayas. |
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| At the OGU'98 conference held on May 20-21, 1998 at Tashkent, several blocks were offered in the western region of Ustyurt at the southern end of the Aral Sea. |
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