Dried-up Aral Sea springs back to life | Revisited • FRANCE 24 English 

@Laurie Huntley crickets chirping.

Care to elaborate?

He's talking about the guy at around 11 minutes. He was speaking (mostly) English, and the translation, whilst more-or-less true to the spirit of what he was saying, was not the same as what he was saying.

@@derpyeh9107 Guy said 'brilliant' and it was needlessly translated to 'magnificent'.

I think the subtitles were probably originally in French and then translated back to English.

I remember those rusting boats you saw, as functioning fishing boats, floating on meters deep water.

ahahahaha

He meant cubic kilometer square miles.

How much does that cost in fahrenheit?

About A - 78 Inches, or € Lumen if you are from Lybia

size of my country, actually lake is bigger,, sri lanka

That's the issue The same thing will happen in Laos Thailand Cambodia even now the Chinese control the water flow and there is significant changes to the water flow

@@markmitchell450 One thing at a time. Pick your battles. The demand concerning the Arak sea is definitive, clearly understood issues and history. Please, no surfing!

In Kazakhstan, sure. But I don't know about the situation in Uzbekistan.

"their original rivers." I wonder what that means? The two rivers responsible for filling the Aral sea do no originate in Uzbekistan. The headwaters of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers originate elsewhere. Just as The United States controls the headwaters of the Colorado River and has built the Hoover Dam (and others) which have had a negative impact on the flow of water into Mexico. China will never give up Tibet for very sound strategic reasons, one of which is water. The Tibetan Himalayas hold the headwaters of China's Yellow and Yangtse rivers, the Brahmaputra (flows into Bangladesh), the Ganges and Indus (India), and the Mekong (Cambodia, Laos, Thailand). Whoever controls Tibet will have China by the scrotum. That won't be happening any time ever. The ongoing water dispute between Egypt (which historically has claimed most of the Nile) and Ethiopia (controls one of the Nile headwaters and is constructing a hydro dam) is another example of countries in control of the headwaters having impact on downstream countries. This century and the next will most likely see water wars on a global scale unless countries are willing to share the economic benefits and the economic hardships.

Fact.

Yikes, this is going to trigger the lefties. Global warming (or climate change or what ever it goes by now), carbon footprint, and anti-capitalism is their religion.

@External power Russia? It's Soviet. Soviet capitalism (I lol).

@Jim Battersbee It didn't. I just responded to the original comment here. Read it, then read mine.

Ah the "straw man argument". As the program and others have said human mismanagement was the cause. Fact. This doesn't prove or disprove the existence of climate change.

who counted?

ghost fish👻👻🐟🐟👻👻

Plus a crab for company.

it's next to a literal desert.....

I an so sad for you, I do not know what to say to you Governments do not care about people they just exploit, them. Best Wishes I hope as this post is a year old that life is getting better not worse.

What's sadder is that the gold is probably being mined by Chinese people and other foreigners

@@africanlastborn7776 how has france hijacked their money and who is france according to you?

Humans have been low and short-sighted all around the world.

not really, the oceans water level is increasing every year due to artic and antarctic ice melting

@@joaobastos6435 - This is ruining fresh underground water as sea water intrudes. This is happening in Pacific Island nations and the Nile delta region of Egypt and no doubt elsewhere. The rising sea levels are directly affecting more and more nations, Bangladesh being one. Tens if not hundreds of millions currently live along coastal zones that will eventually be flooded as sea level rises. But that will be a problem future generations will have to face and somehow solve, I do not envy them.

@@joaobastos6435 but ocean levels are rising because of climate change. Otherwise , they would not be rising.

Unfortunately they leave out the fact that this is only about 1/4 of the original sea and that most of it has been abandoned to its fate. :/

all nature needs is for man to go away.......it will heal itself. 50 years of humans messing it up is gonna take a couple of decades to fix.

+Matt H they said around 50%

China planted a 15km wide wall of trees to stop the Gobi desert from expanding and it's working. There is a similar initiative in Africa to stop the southern part of Sahara from expanding, but it is less of a success, because it's Africa.

It’s a small fraction of the original lake! Better than nothing you might say in the same way that 1/5 is greater than zero but it’s still less than 1 (complete restoration).

And??? what's the big deal there? it was a nice fish after all...

@@georgensal It's supposed to be a friggin documentary, not a work of fiction. I expect them to provide an accurate translation for everything. As soon as you start 'correcting' some parts, the integrity of the whole work becomes threatened.

@@Kenionatus I totally agree! It seems this type of "documentaries" have a different purpose in mind! Sad!

guy: this us my wife sazan,sazan translator;that's a beautiful carp

guy: this is my wife sazan,sazan! translator: that's a beautiful carp

also right after instead of saying "especially the government" he said "it was brilliant, our sea"

Whoever did those subs is an idiot. The guy's English isn't bad, especially considering he lives in the heart of central Asia. You can understand every word he says.

They built the damn so they could continue to use the rivers water to farmland. Just putting the river back into place would leave alot of farmland unavailable and hunger would greet them i guess

That would be an easy enough situation if the Soviet Union still existed, and if the political will was there. Unfortunately, the reason the Soviets decided to divert the water in the first place was to irrigate desert land to grow cotton. Now several different countries are involved. Kazakhstan is committed to saving their part of the sea, but their decision to build a dam and cut the North Aral Sea off from the Southeast and Southwest basins was after Uzbekistan showed a complete unwillingness to redirect any of its water back into the sea. Uzbekistan has become dependent on the cotton that they grow with the diverted water, and has no political will to save the Aral Sea. In fact, they have decided to plant thousands of small bushes that can live in salty soil on the former sea bed, hoping that these plants will attract rain and stop dust storms. And in some cases, the decision cannot be made by Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan alone, because the rivers involved have their source in yet third or fourth countries, so diversion back to the sea could impact at least four different nations. It ought to be easy enough, in theory, but asking countries to give up jobs and revenue to save a lake is a hard sell, particularly if the countries are as poor as most former Soviet republics.

@@jdoggtn7 Well I suppose things are at least heading in the right direction, hopefully. Thanks for the reply.

RS_Trickser for now the northern part only is better than the entire sea being gone. Will take a lot of money and a not corrupt government to actually reroute the rivers to fully fix the sea.

@@ryannoble8536 Haha done it once will do it again

Correct!

Did you even watch to 1:42?

The video should have mentioned that the dam was built at a choke point within the sea. It mystified me continually where it was while I watched.

It’s coming back.

I remember the Soviets, starting the diversions, and the consequent reduction of the Aral Sea. Trying to refill the sea, will take a long time, though congratulations, I guess are in order, for attempting to fix, what wasn't broken, to start with.

That’s not always how language works.

@@petermgruhn Trout has a bad horse for the day. Thanks - Lumpy

They are dumbing it down for the indifferent audience who don't understand the simple comma or the mighty apostrophe

@@Longtack55 Or even the incoming catastrophe.

I noticed that, too. I thought that's not what he said!

Didnt notice at first lololol

That translates to one heck of a lot of water.

Supertomiman this is the smartest comment I've heard yet. All these people that want to save the world think they live in a vacuum

Ice age

They built a dam that makes sure the water doesn't cover the surface area as it did before. And since evaporation is linear to surface area, the amount of evaporation is kept low and thus the lake grows until it reaches a new equilibrium. It's not rocket science, they litterally said 'we've only managed to save the northern part of the sea', so it's not the enitire sea that's returned, only a small portion of it. I just hope that portion is big enough to save the local area from dust bowls and salination.

The sea will fill up because rivers are just one way of moving water around. Underneath the ground there will be water moving though the earth. The sea will fill up only as high as the water table, but that is better than nothing.

This is the obvious solution but it requires some local champions with a vision and a goal. Obviously they need to restore the flow of those two rivers. Since another republic is involved, they also need smart diplomacy. These are nice people but they lived under communism for so long and the bureaucratic way of life still lingers.

Absolutly! Stop grow Cotton, reduce taking water to a minimum level, grow trees up beside the whole rivers and start again..

If it was used somewhere else because of a water shortage then it's the same thing!

@@krimmer66 No lmao, you yourself said it was USED which means it wasn't lost.

That won't happen until they OVERTHROW the TYRANT running Kazakhstan for 27 yrs! That is why WE in the USA have to VOTE OUT OF OFFICE our own TYRANT --Fuhrer Drumpf!

One of those mistakes might be “feeding the young”.

So they can catch and eat it. Bet the wildlife can't wait.

@@williedaniels3882 well, now we have a bunch of new wars and the border is being flooded with covid victims. Great job.

it wasn't a mistake of local people. it was politics of Sovyet Union which no one in Kazakhstan could go against.

The more things change the more they stay the same

Actually, this is a Kazakh national tradition. If a family has the only son and the rest of the children are daughters, the only or the youngest son creates his own family living with his parents to back them when they get old. Daughters and elder sons normally leave root family. Our older people never stay alone living the rest of their lives.

its the first step in the emancipation. The women are now allowed to get education but the tradition of men taking their fathers jobs still is there. The next step would be euqality in this field

@Erik Bongers, really?! You feel threatened in your male supremacy?

@@kristine6996 do you feel threatened in your bubble where discrimination against men is good and discrimination against women is bad?

Wear and tear on roads are a factor you know. Those roads probably don't get as much heavy traffic on them or semi hauling like the U.S. roads you maybe comparing against. Those same decent roads could also be a minority in the country in a larger sample size. I would remain skeptical and not make quick judgement on this observation.

@@jungoogie You understand that you are contradicting yourself. If the roads have less economic value the government has less incentive to keep it in shape as it looks.

yes I noticed that too- I was rather impressed as I see even new roads start to go fairly quickly

the trailer we saw being pulled had more than the typical 2 or 3 axles- spreading the load can help reduce the damage

The majority of the US has really nice highways. Some areas that get a lot of freeze thaw cycle's do deteriorate very quickly. Especially with the amount of salt we spread on our roads in the winter.

Go's With the Wind think you mean LIFE

There are also less-inland lakes.

space lakes. Don't forget space lakes.

There are also underwater lakes

Puff

I think they mean endorheic basin. The water isn’t supposed to drain to the ocean, it is supposed to drain to the Sea.

Yea & Nay..we base our entire existence on past events.

During the 60s

Or why they didn't try the obvious solution of reverting the rivers back to their original course. Get used to it, quota hiring will result in lower standards in every industry.

@@wordimobi5765 when they do that all the farms and local ecosystems built around the new courses will fail

Mr.Andrew - Yeah,what's up with that?Wondered same thing

@ZionHillCalling yes like New Mexico and Australia

The Government did the same to the MURRAY RIVER system here, and the river and surrounding townships are dying... Vandalism on a mega scale.

Oroville Dam? How much longer will it hold?

LOL. exactly.

@Big Wheel True. It's a neat thing. Still nothing compared with the aral sea though. I know the aussies also diverted a river system under a mountain, through a hydro damn, and into the desert. As far as i am aware that one is a big plus though. Kinda like the columbia system in north america.

@Big Wheel The river breaking its banks while they were trying to build a damn,is what created it.Putting the river back in its proper channel,is what cut off the water to the Salton Sea.

Dena Redford because they have been damed for electricity

They irrigate loads of farm land, which brings in money without which Uzbekistan's economy would collapse. It's well known that the irrigation systems could be much more efficient and water diverted back to the Aral sea but there's no money for such a huge project and sadly Uzbekistan would rather drill the sea bed looking for oil and gas.

Building some canals from various rivers would help, I think. Canals from Syrdaria could come from both Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. And the Caspian Sea is not so far from Aral Sea. We could connect those places. Voila, we've got two water sources. One problem is money, but I think, getting some of Kazakh and Uzbek money together, and getting foreign investors' money, we could do it.

@@cinnamon4 Or just revert the rivers that originally fed the sea.

Longs81 but it’s okay to destroy other people’s lives, jobs to create some that have a negative affect on others, it’s not a win win situation, obviously Russia needs to do their home work and fix this

Thanks a lot, sir! Welcome to the Aral sea, Kazakhstan. I am sorry for my english, if I made some mistakes. Happy to see comment about me)

Yeah, soviet and prosperity can't belong together

I really suggest you to take a look to "Bald and Bankrupt" channel, he travels all across the ex-USSR countries and shows what is lasting of the USSR period (both the positive and the negative things), it's really enlighting to learn something about all those "unknown" countries

@@MrLuca998 I prefer Harald Baldr's channel

@@GlossaME Well, it's another great channel ! Sorry but everytime i think about soviet things Bald and Bankrupt automatically comes up to my mind 😂

@@MrLuca998 You are right on that one. He is a fluent russian language speaker afterall

They told you they put up a little tiny 10-meter High Dam that keeps the water from going to the south end of the lake making the North End Lake grow a little bit. You know there's a thing called Google Earth if you pull it up you can see the Aral Sea and you can see the damn.

Christian O. Ho

2018.1.06 1741h EST Too bad they didn't just bring in some Beavers to fix it.

+AJ Schultz (aAmosche The IV) and leave it to beavers... maybe they could've...

Christian O. Holz let’s try harder

This is not our fault, but Uzbekistan, there actively grow cotton and rice, Kazakhstan did everything to save this sea ,Uzbekistan does not want to join this large-scale project, Because it requires a lot of money and they do not have the money.Kazakhstan together with the World Bank makes this project

I'm amazed at how this story almost exactly mirrors the Salton Sea in California: A lake dying and drying up due to diverting water for irrigation; people suffering health issues, fish die offs, etc. Even had a military base and all. Except they tested nukes and other things at the Naval Station there, not biochemical warfare. Only real difference is that the Salton Sea was a dried up prehistoric lake bed before an accident formed it again in the early 1900's.

@@joemomma506 the Salton Sea was an accident though.

@@joemomma506 The Salton Sea was formed when a aqueduct from the Colorado River to the Imperial Valleys busted in the 1930s. It started to dry up again after they fixed the breach. Ironically it was the recent diverting of water away from agriculture to the cities that increased the rate. Less agricultural runoff = faster decline.

@@MrManfly Yeah, that's what I wrote. Are you blind?

@@RickZackExploreOffroad Yeah, I know the history.

P8qzxnxfP85xZ2H3wDRV because the USA and anglo-saxon world is in decline and Russia, France and China are looking to get their place.

@@matthewhemmings2464 I think he meant why is a french tv station playing english language films

Who cares. For most of human history the Aral Sea was exactly that.

Mmm yes imagine the archaeological treasures!!

When you and your family on the brink of starvation, lol who would care about some old jar of clay that pirates threw overboard ages ago.

Yes, they did, search for "Aral-asar", you will find lots of papers published with photos

Its was what i was thinking too.

If they were smart, they would mine and sell it.

All other countries have inferior potassium

Same thing is being done in the US. Look at Owens Valley & the Colorado River. Numerous cases in South America & Mexico as well. We're destroying our planet by the greed of a few.

Canada too.

They had to feed millions of people and that was the best way to do it. The sacrifice of the few for the benefit of the many.

The opposite happened in the UK. Lake Vyrnwy in Wales was formed by flooding the area to form a reservoir to feed two large English cities. The village, including the church and graves were submerged and even now, parts of the village appear when the levels are low.

@@tazzatamania there must have been more lakes in England in the past considering all the rain and canals. Drained for agriculture i suppose.

The best comment here...by far.

Swimming in that dirty hole is probably more fun than watching your300 channels.

You have a legitimate beef.

They don't go there because they don't have water, this "dirty hole" has mineral-rich water that has healing properties.

Its a literal hot spring in the middle of an arid winter desert

So those rivers do still exist?

Make Aral great again.

ReligiousZombie he is sending a distress signal. Might be the older guy lets him do that 😁

What is wrong with you guys... hilarious 😂😂😂😂

and Chernobyl lol.

Now your on thin ice

Theres a lot more in the western hemisphere. And the big different, the USSR just makes it, in their territory.

Mexico

Western tax payers, of course.

loooseunit Everyone not only USA

@@acelgallander2497 Haha yup that's right

Rick West everyone not only western taxpayers

Maybe a kilometer square mile is a kilometer down one side and a mile down the other!

More likely he failed reading comprehension, as he was looking at a teleprompter. Or, maybe the guy who wrote to the teleprompter is 'tarded.

it's french... they are "special"

Bob Finkenbiner YOU are "special" !

They could have messed up the translation from French to English.