World Water Crisis

World Water Crisis  book Blue Planet Run safe drinking water to the one billion people who lack it
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Dried Up Seabed
The Aral Sea has lost two-thirds of its volume because its source rivers were diverted for cotton irrigation during the Soviet era. Once the fourth-largest lake in the world, it is now a dusty graveyard of rusting shipwrecks.

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