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  1. Refill the Aral Sea

    by Ed Ring on September 27, 2004

    RELEASE THE RIVERS: Let the Volga & Ob Refill the Aral Sea

    Kyrgyzstan, the Switzerland of Central Asia
    Headwaters of the Syr Darya River

    The Aral Sea used to be an endless expanse of bountiful waters. Now only burning sands remain, and graveyards of ghost ships. On the salt-saturated seabed where the sea once ran deep, [...]