1. Find the location and other information about the Aral Sea from an online atlas.
2. What former Soviet republics border the Aral Sea?
3. What main rivers supply the Aral Sea?

   Visit the following web site and answer the questions

   http://www.oneworld.org/patp/pap_aral.html

4. Why was the water supply to the Sea diverted?
5. What resources did the Sea supply to the local inhabitants?
6. Name five negative effects of the sea's disappearance on the environment.
7. Instead of as a "sea" how would you describe the region today?
8. List six health effects on people related to the vanishing Aral Sea.
9. Do you think that the Aral can be mitigated, reclaimed or rehabilitated?
10. Describe steps you think could be taken to improve the region.

Nice animation to view as well as more background information. http://www.dfd.dlr.de/app/land/aralsee/

 See the related article in Ameriscan for December 21, 1999. concerning the Colorado River.

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