What is the second largest lake in Central Asia?
Central Asia’s second-largest lake under threat 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. Sources: http://videoallnews.
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. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/08/2009823174822530682.html Lake Balkhash is already shrinking. (Image by Nasa) The UN has warned that Lake Balkhash, the second largest lake in Central Asia after the Aral Sea, could dry up, creating another major environmental crisis in the region. Forty times the size of Lake Geneva, Balkhash lies in eastern Kazakhstan, 400 kilometres (250 miles) north of the comm
Scientists are now monitoring the large Kazakh lake, which has engendered much fear for its restitution as a healthy body of water. Sources: Information came from Aljazeera.net.
