Located between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the lake was once the fourth largest in the world.
By establishing a program to promote agriculture and especially that of cotton, Soviet government led by Khrouchtchev in the 1950s deliberately deprived the Aral Sea of its two main sources of water, leaving disastrous consequences for the communities relying on its waters.
From satellite database images, I retrace significant bodies of water disappearing or permanently altered by human activities, thus depicting the Anthropocene Era(se).
