The Story of the Aral Sea’s Disappearance — Transcript

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1. 0:07so
2. 0:15[Music]
3. 0:22[Music]
4. 0:33that was one of the most interesting
5. 0:37ecosystem of the world
6. 0:39before the 60s the area now for the one
7. 0:43third
8. 0:44is now a desertic area where of course
9. 0:48biodiversity doesn't exist anymore and
10. 0:51most of the species have disappeared
11. 0:56[Music]
12. 1:24the water from the two rivers
13. 1:27was
14. 1:29taken by
15. 1:31in general
16. 1:32engineering work building deeks building
17. 1:35channels
18. 1:37that of course also changed the
19. 1:39morphology of the area
20. 1:48[Music]
21. 2:03[Music]
22. 2:13when you have
23. 2:15a sort of
24. 2:17pumping that is so
25. 2:21the level of the lake decreased of 17
26. 2:26meters
27. 2:31[Music]
28. 2:45[Music]
29. 2:55also birds
30. 2:57and many other species of animals
31. 3:01due to the impersonalization of the lake
32. 3:05but not only
33. 3:06the increase of the desert
34. 3:09created
35. 3:11the
36. 3:12sun storms these of course create
37. 3:15a climate
38. 3:17and and a situation
39. 3:20that
40. 3:21doesn't allow
41. 3:22the species living
42. 3:24in the area to continue to survive
43. 3:28[Music]
44. 3:42[Music]
45. 3:43there was an increasing of poverty due
46. 3:46to lack of water access and water
47. 3:49security it was a an economic disaster
48. 3:53[Music]
49. 4:49we know that
50. 4:50pesticides and fertilizers in
51. 4:53infiltrate in the sub-soil and then
52. 4:57reach the aquifers the groundwater
53. 4:59resources and of course drinking water
54. 5:03it's mainly
55. 5:05derived by wells that are pumping in
56. 5:08these aquifers
57. 5:10[Music]
58. 5:49in kazakhstan the level of the lakes has
59. 5:52increased and
60. 5:54some of the species are back
61. 5:57but at the same time these dam
62. 6:00doesn't allow the flow of the water to
63. 6:04reach the southern part of the rlc
64. 6:13[Music]
65. 6:33the two rivers the sirdaria and the
66. 6:36amudaria rivers
67. 6:38that take their source from the
68. 6:40hindukushi and the pamira before to
69. 6:44reach
70. 6:45uzbekistan and kazakhstan they go
71. 6:48through afghanistan kyrgyzstan and
72. 6:51tajikistan the problem is much more than
73. 6:54only uzbekistan and kazakhstan
74. 6:56management of the water it's a really a
75. 6:58regional coordination and cooperation
76. 7:01for the management of transboundary
77. 7:02waters of the region without a real
78. 7:05sustainable management and governance of
79. 7:08water resources and in particular the
80. 7:10protections of the glaciers
81. 7:13looking at the impact that climate
82. 7:16change definitely there will be
83. 7:18no much future for the rlc in the next
84. 7:22100
85. 7:24years
86. 7:29[Music]
87. 7:37you