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Contents 1 Facts Missing 2 Cleanup tag 3 Watchlist 4 Aral Sea 5 Contradiction 6 History of Aral Sea 7 Bizarre but persistent accounts that North Aral is rapidly being restored 8 Image:Aral sea 1985 from STS.jpg

[edit] Facts Missing

Hello.

This article deals almost completely with the environmental disaster of Aral Sea. Basic facts such as surface area (as of 199x or 200x, for example), geography, climate and economy issues are almost completely missing. Given the fact that pre-1960 Aral was the 4th largest lake in the world, I could describe this article as stub.

However, at the moment I cannot spend time in making the text better.

[edit] Cleanup tag

This article has been tagged because it needs to have spelling and grammar corrected, be rearranged, wikified, and in fact almost completely rewritten. If possible, help from a more advanced Wikipedian or Cleanup Task Force member would be appreciated, as I am only a lowly Wikimite. Vanderdecken ^℘ζξ 12:40, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Looks like you visited the page just a couple of hours after a huge messy anon rewrite. I've reverted to the old version, which is of decent quality. Staecker 13:36, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Watchlist

I can't find the link to put this on my watchlist. I know. I suck. I have a lot of stubs on there, but this one, though not a stub, I feel is a rather important article. I want it on my list. Could anyone help me?

Oh, I forgot to sign in...Sorry!

CommKing 19:41, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Aral Sea

Hi i'm called Phil and i think that what they are doing to the aral sea is wrong. I dont think that they should take all the water but only take it to one cotten plantation.

[edit] Contradiction

In the current situation area, it lists near the top of the paragraph that the sea had lost 60% of its surface area, thus leaving 40%. Later, however, it states that only 25% is left. Which is it?

The article says that the Soviet Union decided in 1918. The Soviet Union did not exists until 1922 and Wikipidia itself has an article on Soviet Union "The Soviet Union was established in December 1922 as the union of the Russian (colloquially known as Bolshevist Russia), Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Transcaucasian Soviet republics ruled by Bolshevik parties. ". Please, correct the contradiction. Ruslan Moskalenko

I made the change, but anyone can edit Wikipedia, you could have made the correction yourself. Kmusser 16:11, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] History of Aral Sea

This article should cover also the history of Aral Sea before the Soviet era. Aral Sea has been constantly changing, sometimes it has been even larger than before the current shrinking, other times it has been almost dried up when Amu Darya has flowed into the Caspian Sea instead.--Jyril 12:46, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bizarre but persistent accounts that North Aral is rapidly being restored

Observers in 2006 claim the waters have returned 3 years earlier than expected (after World Bank August 2005 damn set up), previous port city of Aralsk is no longer 100 km from the coast but now only 25(!), and substantial fishing stocks (for export!) with returning fishing industry. I know this sounds preposterously optimistic, but everybody concerned seems to agree it is somehow happening. I edited the article to reflect this, using footnotes and lots of qualifiers in case the observers are seeing a few mirages, but I don't see how this can be ignored while we just parrot old news about what a calamity it is when reports are suddenly otherwise. Mare Nostrum 19:13, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

North Aral is a tiny lake, compared to the rest of the Aral Sea. Now that the dam separates it from the Aral Sea proper, it is being filled up by the Syr-Darya river. However, the south part of the Aral Sea (which is enourmously larger) is still in a dire condition and drying up quickly. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.114.255.99 (talk)

[edit] Image:Aral sea 1985 from STS.jpg

Is there any particular reason why this image has been flipped so that the foreground is at the top of the frame? -- MacAddct1984 22:51, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

It was probably done so that north would be at the top of the picture, I agree that it looks odd that way though. Kmusser 07:10, 10 February 2007 (UTC)