It is even probable that a sixth current existed at one time or another in the Northern Indian Ocean, when the Caspian and
Aral Seas formed but one vast sheet of water.
The central concept of this paper is veracity,"
Aral said.
We have reached an agreement on joint actions for saving the
Aral Sea.
For the past 20 years, Petron Foundation, in cooperation with the Department of Education (DepEd), Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and other implementing partners, has been mounting this event to share the spirit of the Season with Tulong
Aral ng Petron (TAP) scholars from different parts of the country.
We explored and pondered at
Aral many times in every season and all forms of weather, since this history is important to our family and it has a place in local lore.
The
Aral Sea block contains gas and includes a continuation of the Zaunguz-Murgab Graben, along which East Turkmenistan's super-giant Dauletabad gas field is located (see Dauletabad in gmt13TurkmProd26Sep16 and gmt14TurkmGasExpts3Oct16).
The IFAS, established in 1990s in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, aims at financing joint projects and programs to save the
Aral Sea and improve the ecological situation there.
In the year 1993, the states of the Central Asia where the
Aral Sea is situated established the International Fund for the
Aral Saving (IFAS) and about 10 billion USD were assigned for saving the Sea within the subsequent years.
In the
Aral Sea region, more than half of the pregnant women suffer from extra-genital diseases; there are a large number of abortions.
In the Soviet Union, the deteriorating state of the
Aral Sea was hidden for decades, until 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev made this ecological disaster public at the end of the 1980s.
The
Aral Sea Basin is shared by Afghanistan and the five post-soviet republics of Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
The quiet Chernobyl," a massive environmental disaster seems to be taking place in the
Aral Sea.
