Aral Sea Basin
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| Region | Central Asia | edit |
 Kazakhstan |  Kyrgyzstan |  Tajikistan |  Turkmenistan |  Uzbekistan | SUB-REGIONS: Ferghana Valley part of Europe & CIS | EECCA --- neighboring: Afghanistan | Pakistan | Russia | China (Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region) | India | ||
| MAIN WATER BASINS (Map): Aral Sea Basin | Amu Darya River Basin | Syr Darya River Basin SUB-BASINS: Sarafhsan River Basin | Ferghana Valley | ||
| Key resources: Water Sector Review | CAREWIB | ADB - Donor Project Matrix on Central Asia | Report:Water, Climate, and Development Issues in the Amudarya Basin | Report: Irrigation in Central Asia: Social, Economic and Environmental Considerations | ||
| Selected external resources: [CAReWIB] | ADB - About the CA Region] | [] | | ||
The Aral Sea basin, located in Central Asia, has undergone many changes in the recent past. The Aral Sea, the world's fourth largest lake before 1960, has been progressively drying up. With the end of the Soviet era, the international community has become aware of this problem and focused on what is considered one of the major anthropogenic environmental degradations in the world.
(Source: FAO-Aquastat, where an overview about the Aral Sea basin, the causes of the drying up of the lake, the present trends and the solutions being studied by the governments of the countries of the region is presented.)
