Essays Tagged: "Amu Darya"
This essay is about the affect of human changes to the environment. It uses two cases: the inncident at Cherenobyl and the draining of the Aral sea.
expand agriculture. Due to Central Asia's dry climate, it was necessary to irrigate water from the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya to grow crops. These two rivers were the main source of water for the Ar ... of the Aral Sea had several negative effects on the environment and the society. The deltas of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya were degraded severely by desertification. The change also had many vast imp ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Desiccation of the Aral Sea
m major changes in river discharge into it caused by climatic changes, by natural diversions of the Amu Dar'ya away from the Aral, and by man. Human impacts included big withdrawals for irrigation fro ... S THIS HAPPENEDA series of dry years in the 1970s, particularly 1974-75, lowered discharge from the Amu Dar'ya and Syr Dar'ya at 30 km3 per year (27%) compared to the average during the preceding 45 y ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
Problems of Aral Sea
attle, a fish, birds, they were feeding people, and now they have dried up. Deltas of Syr-Darya and Amu Darya also have dried up. The reed disappeared together with the drying of deltas, which was con ... catastrophe of Aral Sea. In the accelerated rate processes of desertification develop, the delta of Amu Darya has especially strongly suffered. Massifs of cane brushwood on the area of 800 thousand he ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays