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ISBN/UID: 9780262731461
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 18 January 2002
Description
The Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers of Central Asia flow across deserts to empty into the Aral Sea. Under Soviet rule, so much water was diverted from the rivers for agricultural purposes that salinity levels rapidly rose and the sea shrank. There ...
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288 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780262731461
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 18 January 2002
Description
The Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers of Central Asia flow across deserts to empty into the Aral Sea. Under Soviet rule, so much water was diverted from the rivers for agricultural purposes that salinity levels rapidly rose and the sea shrank. There ...