Uzbek part of the Aral Sea dried up completely - NASA

Tashkent. September 29. Silkroadnews - The eastern part of the southern Aral Sea relating to the territory of Uzbekistan, for the first time completely dried in the last 600 years, according to the the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
The eastern part of the Aral Sea has dried completely in 2014, as in the basin of the sea starting in the Pamir Mountains, has dropped little rain and snow, bringing down the water level in the Amu Darya, leads NASA opinion geographer at the University of Western Michigan and an expert on the Aral Sea Philip Micklin the published data on Monday.
The Aral Sea, located on the border of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, until 1960 was the fourth largest inland lake in the world. However, over the past 40 years, Sea has shrunk by almost half, the water level dropped by 18 m, the volume of water in the sea has decreased by 5 times, increased its salinity, the fish disappeared.
In October in Uzbekistan host an international conference "Development of cooperation in the Aral Sea Basin to mitigate environmental catastrophe".