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The Aral Sea, which used to be the fourth-largest lake in the world, has slowly shrunk to a mere fraction of its size due to poor water management.

A child plays inside a rusted dilapidated car along the dried-up Aral Sea, in the village of Tastubek near Aralsk, Kazakhstan, Monday, July 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) 32,903 people played ...

Over time the Aral Sea gradually dried up. It started to shrink in 1960 when the rivers were diverted. Satellite images show that by 1998 it was 60% of its original size.

Aral Sea (Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan) Mar de Aral (NASA Terra-Modis) / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 Central Asia's Aral Sea is the poster child for large, dried-up bodies of water.

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Once one of the world's largest inland lakes, the Aral Sea in Central Asia, has evaporated into the desert, its waters sucked dry by Soviet-era irrigation plans.

Before the Aral Sea dried up, the weight of its water had compressed the rock below, forming a depression. As the water evaporated, the rocks began to rebound.