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The Aral Sea was once the fourth-largest lake in the world. But in the 1980s, it became one of the world's largest ecological disasters when the Soviet Union started to build a series of reservoirs to irrigate cotton fields. This video is a look back at the history of the Aral Sea and how greed and incompetence led to its collapse.
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