Re-greening Uzbekistan's desertified Aral Sea region

[@bobjackson4720]

This is one of the worst ecological disasters in the world but it is barely mentioned. The northern Aral sea (part of the original sea) has recovered considerably (thanks to a dam) however the problem is that just too much river water is being used for agriculture (growing cotton). Unless the new countries (which were once Soviet satellite states) cut back on water diversion, the lake has only a very restricted future.

[@rashidhaque7631]

Just wait if there is some oil found here America russia china would come running here 😂

[@billshun3963]

@@rashidhaque7631or they can explore their oil reserve themselves.

[@BarrieHarmsworth]

Result of ignorance ruling the day. I imagine it would be difficult however I am sure the Sea can be returned. What's a couple of decades to get back what was put there by Nature.

[@marumiyuhime]

@@rashidhaque7631 there is tons under the rockies and in alaska china would get smoked

[@abhishekpratapnigam]

Source begins at Pamir knot..it's not just about Kazakh and Uzbek.

[@lucprovencher9411]

why dont they just divert the rivers back to the aral sea to refill it

[@mazzzamat]

This is not possible. The population of several countries (Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan) is growing, the capacity of Amudarya - the main river feeding the Aral Sea is not like it used to be 100 years ago. Even if we remove all the people, block all the irrigation canals, it make take several centuries to refill the Aral Sea..

[@yo2trader539]

It's almost the same everywhere. There is way too much population relative to the capacity of the land.

[@bibekdas7449]

😢

[@xyeB]

@@mazzzamatstill good

[@xyeB]

@@yo2trader539wrong

[@truthandjustice77]

In western media it's usual to blame Soviet Union for the Aral sea disaster, which is partially true, but now Uzbekistan is doing nothing to save and protect Aral. Instead, Uzbekistan 1) established cotton mafia in Karakalpakstan and growing so much cotton, and exporting it to other countries and gaining a lot of revenue) 2) extracting gas and oil from the seabed 3) keeps the water of Amudaria in Muynak and thus letting the Aral sea die 4) abuses money granted by UN, EU and other international organisations to ameliorate life in Karakalpakstan and solve the Aral sea crisis. What Uzbekistan government likes to do is always blaming Soviet Union, while uz itself has stolen so much money given by international organisations. Ecosystem (salt and dust storms, desertification, pesticides, herbicides), water quality (saline) and health conditions didn't improve in Karakalpakstan. Uzbekistan is lying to the world presenting itself as a victim of Soviet Union, while Uz itself is just oppressing and worsening life and heavily assimilating Karakalpaks in Karakalpakstan.

[@swimspud]

Children paying for the sins of their fathers. In California, USA we have 3 very similar situations; lake Tulare, Owen’s Lake, and the Salton sea. Point being this is not just a Soviet issue, but a legacy of progress irregardless of impact.

[@Rikard_A]

Look at the damm Egypt and Ethiopia and Turkey.

[@lokesh303101]

Underground Water Reservoirs need to be built in Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 and Uzbekistan 🇺🇿 as the rest of excess released into Aral Sea.

[@lansvale28]

Who will pay for it?

[@Torrque]

Dumbest comment! ZERO thought involved.

[@cedricliggins7528]

Im glad professional administrators like Mr Abdurakhmanov is working on this restoration project. He's someone who can get things done.

[@rajsinghji-84]

3:27 The first name, “Bakhtijan”, loosely translates to Hindi meaning “Religious People / Person”. Love from India 🇮🇳

[@sanzhar6399]

In kazakh bakhitjan means "HappySoul" 🤨😃. Thank you so much🇰🇿🇮🇳

[@rajsinghji-84]

@@sanzhar6399 That’s also another translation in Hindi “Spiritual Soul”.

[@sanzhar6399]

@@rajsinghji-84 that's cool

[@j.obrien4990]

Black sacsol grows in the Western US and Northern Mexico, but here is an invasive species and displaces a lot of the local ecosystem. (it is native to central asia of the world).

[@mukuldave7767]

If sea level is increasing in this case this land could be connected with canal to let sea water fill in this region Same way dead sea, Euphrate could be filled.

[@BagadBilla9696]

Aral sea will be back😊

[@Azurym]

no it won't

[@marumiyuhime]

@@Azurym yes it will the basin will outlast us as a species goddess will set the earth strait

[@nurlancodes]

Mostly Karakalpastan is desert by Aral (

[@Alex-pc7ud]

SOVEREIGN REPUBLIK OF KARAKALPAKSTAN ❤

[@sssun7]

Where is this?

[@JohnnyAngel8]

​@@sssun7 The Aral Sea stretches from Uzbekistan north into Kazakhstan, east of the Caspian Sea. It's easy to find on Google Maps.

[@robertclark5874]

Karakalpakstan wasn't the most interesting to visit, but it's one of my fav places to pronounce!

[@andrewgnys6285]

It was a nice video. At least people are trying to do good. When I was in AA I had a sticker on my mirror and it said, you are now looking at the problem. People are the biggest problem in this world and they have done the best job to destroy it. Love from Australia.

[@NorlizaKahmis-tc3ze]

May Allah gaves HIS blessing onto these place. Aamiin

[@n-wordaficianado2990]

cringe

[@markvalparaiso1690]

And Lord Buddha and Quetzacoatl the Mexican God of rain😆

[@billshun3963]

And don’t forget Jesus Christ Superstar.

[@paulthesoundguy1]

ALLAH has nothing to do with the Russian and soviets. Wake up

[@marumiyuhime]

Hail mother frigg god will be with all

[@masaukochitsamba7808]

As far as I am concerned, this is not the proper solution

[@simaogomes8077]

that area was never green. it was blue, a sea. dont try to regreen it. try to reblue it!

[@sssun7]

But where can we get the water to replenish? Hmm...

[@JohnnyAngel8]

The water is no longer available and the vegetation helps keep the salts and toxic soil in place.

[@Debbie-henri]

Green is better than bare desert. The water isn't coming back - it's diverted to support rapidly growing populations nearby. Similarly, in the US places and farms are becoming uninhabitable because more water is being used by sprawling cities and towns. By the time it gets to the farms, it's just a trickle. This is what happens when couples have that 3rd, 4th, 5th kid. The excess children are an extra impact on a world that can no longer bear them. Just yesterday, I came across a comment by someone in the US who boasted having 10 kids. People were commending him. I felt sick. Unsustainable in the US, and even more so in these countries - where having 10 kids isn't so unusual (which is why the excess population from these nations is spilling out all over the world at unsustainable rates).

[@Soufriere84]

@@Debbie-henri Clearly you know nothing about how water rights work in the American West. Farms get priority over urban areas because the farmers were there first, and many of those farms are incredibly wasteful with the water they have, doing exactly what Uzbekistan does but on a smaller scale -- growing crops that shouldn't be grown there. They also overpump aquifers which has led to massive land subsidence.

[@ssmith2832]

They need the water back it has too many functions for the regions climate and economy. Plus isn’t everywhere else suffering from rising sea levels

[@bullinobull5158]

God bless you..

[@emmahardesty4330]

If Munak is using permaculture techniques, they'll quickly succeed in regenerating soil, water, and economic resources. Utilizing humanure creates soil, without cost, with rapid results.

[@KGopidas]

Why not set up wind farms and solar farms

[@billshun3963]

For their growing industry right!

[@khanimran7465]

Why cant they just redivert the water an the sea will come back its when man thinks he is cleaver than nature

[@marumiyuhime]

Hail mother frigg you are so right

[@AzamatIlyasov-xn9dk]

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏супер фильм спасибоооо

[@martinzitnak8547]

so let´´s make south aral lake green .. by planting bush and trees

[@neerajsjpr]

One day Earth will reckaim whats was earlier, catastrophe happens and then we realise.

[@Aymenalyf]

2:15 sorry...Palestinians death sea

[@Sarfarazahmadk48]

Russia is villan for this Sea

[@venkataramanmuthuswamy7401]

They may succeed in regreening. Can they ever refill the sea?

[@jacksek12]

What about californias lake tuluri

[@neerajsjpr]

Why not refill it with water again, river already exists there.

[@rashidhaque7631]

Because Amu dariya water is stopped by all countries from where is passes, Kyrgyzstan Kazakhstan afganistan built their Dam and they will not give water

[@billshun3963]

What about Muslim brotherhood ?

[@chrisschaeffer9661]

Cotton or Fish? That's the Choice. Money wins again.

[@aydinikramli6455]

Caspian sea water pomp➡️Aral sea

[@DrPangloss]

The level of the Caspian sea is also becoming lower.

[@franklinhernandez683]

I know of an idea of being a mechanical and physics and back in the old days and when I was a child I would come up with ideas I have an idea that will bring that the arrow seat back and more and it will happen very quick not in a lot of months and years but guess what it will cost about I say 10 million which everybody has except me and the idea will cost to construct does what I what I have in my brain to make that thing work you will see water within a month and recapturing but the reason I say is if I give the idea it would just be taken and you somewhere else I'm not giving it to him the hell with

[@DSAK55]

sounds like infomercial

[@GWNorth-db8vn]

"In partnership with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Uzbekistan" Remember what happened to Borat's producer, Azamat?

[@nrgmstr27to]

Makes me proud to be human.

[@nick066hu]

even the water has fled the Russian dominated, Soviet-inhabited territory. I can understand. Fortunately, the substance, the water molecules are not lost, they found shelter in more worthy, appropriate places on this Planet.

[@nikolai_kury]

Omg, you are the epitome of being sissy😂😂😂😂 stop your crocodile tears and focus on something else, maybe your life

[@sssun7]

🤮

[@RR-jz2up]

Soviets did so much damage to nature in small amount of time.

[@Raznosac]

Yeah, did so much damage, they turned a very poor dessert country of Uzbekistan into world's largest cotton producer with the diverted water of Amu Darya and Syr Darya. Some villains they are.

[@Raznosac]

They wanted to grow cotton on industrial scale in Uzbekistan and they made it. You don't seem capable of critical thinking

[@RR-jz2up]

@@Raznosac Uzbekistan isn't biggest cotton producer. It's only Top6 and it's still a very poor country, but now with ruined environment.

[@BigJFindAWay]

The Old South did the same. With slaves.

[@marumiyuhime]

@@Raznosac technologists are evil creating abomination this sea is out future

[@grandpaandlucas7054]

the soviets did it and blamed america

[@JK-ox2kp]

Restore the waterways 🤔

[@Balamua_banaras_wala]

Hello

[@Brian-uy2tj]

You can't "RE-green something that was not green to begin with. Stop diverting so much of it tributaries flow and start refilling it. It will take years and decades but it should be done.

[@GWNorth-db8vn]

They can plant all the desert plants they want, and it will still be a desert. Kazakhstan has dammed off the Northern Aral, the smallest part, and partly refilled it. Uzbekistan just can't let go of cotton, even though the dry land around it is killing the arable land with salt, dust, and toxins.

[@Brian-uy2tj]

@@GWNorth-db8vn

[@GWNorth-db8vn]

@@Brian-uy2tj - There's no water. The land doesn't care about being anything. There isn't any humidity to be careful about since the sea dried up and stopped putting it into the air. The water that used to fill the sea and provide moisture to the area came from Tajikistan. . It will be a toxic desert no matter what you cover it with. The Uzbek Tourist Ministry is making a crappy situation look pretty without doing a thing to actually make the area livable again. There is no way to magically draw water out of dead salted ground. Bring the water back wait a few centuries, and the land will recover to some extent. Keep growing cotton and it's a desert.

[@Brian-uy2tj]

@@GWNorth-db8vn

[@zoieylandraarzuagas1621]

They could careless

[@jsedusjung461]

where are the environmentalists? some how they cant see the Russia , china, Vietnam, Iran environmental disasters or they just dont care

[@syrphilipgulmatico5352]

It wont bring them enough money. They only care if it will give them profits

[@kyronbeecham1627]

Refill.with sea water

[@marumiyuhime]

that will not work as sea water has salt in it. must be fresh water when the aquifer in midwest dries up this will be the plains of the usa