Ecology and the Aral tragedy
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Write three causes of the Aral tragedy.
Expansion of irrigated land, withdrawal of river water, cotton monoculture.
2
Write 3 sentences on the effect on the Aral region’s people.
Illness and child mortality rose, fishing vanished, many lost work.
3
How many years lie between 1981 (butifos ban) and 1986?
5
4
Give 3 practical proposals for helping the Aral.
Water-saving irrigation, planting salt-tolerant plants, cooperation between states.