edge [he/him] to Earth • 7 months agoMaybe naive question: if the Aral Sea drained because the diversion of a couple rivers, why can’t we just, diverge them back?message-squaremessage-square7 fedilinkarrow-up134
arrow-up134message-squareMaybe naive question: if the Aral Sea drained because the diversion of a couple rivers, why can’t we just, diverge them back?edge [he/him] to Earth • 7 months agomessage-square7 Commentsfedilink
minus-squarealcoholicorn@lemmy.mlhexbear15·7 months agoWell it wouldn't be profitable for the cotton farmers. linkfedilink
minus-squareedge [he/him]hexagonhexbear8·7 months agoThat’s a reasonable assumption, but it was already clearly a problem before the Soviet Union collapsed. link
minus-squarealcoholicorn@lemmy.mlhexbear13·7 months agoIIRC the USSR had planned to line the rivers with concrete and build other devices so there would be less loss. Those never got built, and there was even less ability to do so after the collapse. linkfedilink
minus-squareThomasMuentzner [he/him, comrade/them]hexbear4·7 months agonever forget the future they stole from us link
minus-squareDolores [love/loves]hexbear5·7 months agoive heard alternatively that the cotton was important for domestic consumer goods or export in the USSR, in either case they made a short sighted decision that was seen to be more important than the preserving an unexploitable salty sea link
Well it wouldn't be profitable for the cotton farmers.
That’s a reasonable assumption, but it was already clearly a problem before the Soviet Union collapsed.
IIRC the USSR had planned to line the rivers with concrete and build other devices so there would be less loss.
Those never got built, and there was even less ability to do so after the collapse.
never forget the future they stole from us
ive heard alternatively that the cotton was important for domestic consumer goods or export in the USSR, in either case they made a short sighted decision that was seen to be more important than the preserving an unexploitable salty sea