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).

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