edge [he/him]@hexbear.net to Earth@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 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-square7fedilinkarrow-up134arrow-down10
arrow-up134arrow-down1message-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]@hexbear.net to Earth@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square7fedilink
minus-squareedge [he/him]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·6 months agoThat’s a reasonable assumption, but it was already clearly a problem before the Soviet Union collapsed.
minus-squarealcoholicornlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·6 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.
minus-squareThomasMuentzner [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 months agonever forget the future they stole from us
minus-squareDolores [love/loves]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 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
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