Using the Swatches palette
Millions of people in Central Asia rely on the rivers for a livelihood. U., for instance, generates twenty-eight percent of its hard currency from cotton irrigated with river water.
Planning the irrigation system, the Soviet planners were only after high rates of cotton harvests. Unwise use of water has led to the current state of the Aral Sea. The salt content of the Sea’s waters increased by about threefold, adversely affecting plant and animal life and causing the fishing industry to decline.
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