Aral Sea Collapse Offers Lessons for Climate, Water Security, Says US Scholar

From abundance to collapseThe Aral Sea was sustained for centuries by two great rivers, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya. According to Cameron, the three countries bordering the Aral Sea take divergent approaches. “The Aral Sea and the Aral Sea disaster, I would argue, has been represented and envisaged largely as an environmental crisis, not as a human one. She noted that as the Aral Sea receded, food security collapsed. Gulaysha Esemuratova, a Karakalpak writer, founded the journal “Women of the Aral Sea” to document the suffering of her community.