Lake Aral has a little brother in Iran - and it's in a similarly bad shape: almost dried out.

[puskas78]

Aral Sea - Wikipedia

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And its little brother:

Lake Urmia - Wikipedia

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Ej Atlas

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The return of a once-dying lake

Lake Urmia in Iran was once the world's second largest salt lake, but in a matter of years it shrank to almost nothing. Now, the lake is slowly coming back to life.

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I knew that Iran has a water problem, but holy shit! The similarities are upsetting and terrifying. Both salty lakes were enormous and shallow. Both lost most of the incoming water because rivers were sucked almost dry for agriculture. And in both cases, wind began to pick up "salt" from the dry basin and carried it away into agricultural areas, causing enormous damage to plantations and even cause harm to humans.

 

[Cyanblackstone]

Aral Sea - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

And its little brother:

Lake Urmia - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Ej Atlas

ejatlas.org

The return of a once-dying lake

Lake Urmia in Iran was once the world's second largest salt lake, but in a matter of years it shrank to almost nothing. Now, the lake is slowly coming back to life.

www.bbc.com

I knew that Iran has a water problem, but holy shit! The similarities are upsetting and terrifying. Both salty lakes were enormous and shallow. Both lost most of the incoming water because rivers were sucked almost dry for agriculture. And in both cases, wind began to pick up "salt" from the dry basin and carried it away into agricultural areas, causing enormous damage to plantations and even cause harm to humans.

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The US has its own endorheic salty lake, the Great Salt Lake. And half of its surface area is currently dry-- in May. At the start of the snowpack melting season.

 

[Vadrigos]

This would be the time to start building desalination plants. But I guess the world is still busy with it's "fuck around" mindset and needs to find out the hard way.

 

[Citrakayah]

Desalination plants have their own problems with power consumption and the damaging effects of brine.

The US has its own endorheic salty lake, the Great Salt Lake. And half of its surface area is currently dry-- in May. At the start of the snowpack melting season.

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We've also got the Salton Sea. That one we made on accident, and it's even worse off. The rotting biomass in the dried out lakebed made LA stink, 150 miles away.