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Central Asia's second-largest lake under threat - 23 Aug 09
By: aljazeeraenglish
Posted: Aug 24 09
Witnessed: 1140 times
Regions: China, Kazakhstan
Issues: Environment, Sustainable development, Water
It is Central Asia's second largest lake and home to more than three million people, but Kazakhstan's Lake Balkash is under threat.
The desert-locked sea is shrinking due to over-irrigation, caused in part by industrial neighbours such as China.
Many are concerned it could suffer the same fate as the Aral Sea, and eventually disappear.
Al Jazeera's Robin Forestier-Walker travelled with a team of scientists to Lake Balkhash - to find out why history could be about to repeat itself.
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