Restoring Life to Aralkum: Battling the Aftermath of Environmental Disaster | SLICE EARTH | FULL DOC
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- When a desert replaces a sea, the ecological balance of an entire region is destabilized. Youngest of the world's deserts, Aralkum is the result of an ecological catastrophe, which has led to the almost complete disappearance of the Aral Sea.
The silhouettes of ghost ships, shells bleached by the sun and a thick crust of salt covering the ground in places, are the only vestiges of its presence. Moonscapes and sand dunes now cover a surface of 50,000 km², which was under 20 meters of water in 1970. Can humans repair such a natural disaster, one caused by their own acts?
Scientists are studying closely the climatic and environmental upheavals caused by the appearance of this new desert. They are also trying to undertake actions which will stop the growth of the desert and bring back life where possible. While they all believe that the initial natural balances will never be restored, they are fighting to build new forms of balance.
Documentary: Planet Sand - Episode 3: Aralkum, the Youngest Desert in the World (2016)
Direction: Thierry Berrod, Paul-Aurélien Combre, Pierre-François Gaudry & Quincy Russell
Production: Mona Lisa Productions
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Well done. I remember learning about the Aral sea years ago. So good to see it coming back, slowly, but comin back.
Very sad but Interesting to see what’s happening to reverse desertification over there.
Good to see us putting things right.
Very well balance documentary...
The music adds a certain element of inappropriateness to the theme presented.
yeah that is such a crappy production
Very accurate and yet appropriate. The sea that vanished
Great show! Very informative. Thanks.
Thank you for watching!
Usa is making another in utah as we are watching.....😊
salt was blown away, now the water is fit to manage more fish and animals, thank god for human intervention
interesting perspective
With modern technology and scientific knowledge we can restore Aral sea back
That's great method ❤
Scientific application
Sunday Matinee ❤
Those wild donkey, first time ive ever see it, thanks Slice Earth for this documentary ... and the others as well,
Thank you for watching!!
Mad Max Fury 😮
A very interesting film, thank you! But what about the cotton plantations? Are they still getting all the water that should go to the Aral sea?
Yes. But it is an important industry to a small poor country.
yea but the need to remove 90-95% of the dams to fix the sea…. Cotton can be farmed else where around the world like Australia, New Zealand. the UK n America for example
Wow
"Background sound" is overpowering the voice.
Why can't they reduce the extraction upstream and give greater flow to the 2 rivers ?
Exactly... stop the stupid cotton production!
Uzbekistan's needs that water as cotton production is still key to their economy.
The fact is that Uzbekistan would never have developed without those channels and would be extremely poor today without it.
ask putin
@@fresagrus4490 But how long before all the crud in the wind kills off the cotton?
Very good documentary. One thing only: why wasn't the woman scientist identified? I was curious to know about her.
Is this inland sea fresh water ? perhaps the beaver can be introduced (reintroduced)? here
Fixing it is easy: Both Uzbakistan and Tukmenistan have diverted nearly all the waters of the Amu Darya river into giant new and useless lakes in the desert. You can see them clearly on any satellite photo. Just make them stop that crazy thing started by Soviet Union, and the Aral Sea will once again become a sea. It is not the irrigation water intake, but those desert lakes that take away and steal the water from Amu Darya river
they cannot stop. the industry is extremely important to their economy.
@@SuperTheTheresa Yes, but diverting rivers into desert lakes is not an industry. It was Soviet way to just do what the 5 year Plan asked, without caring what happens because of their action
@@TWOCOWS1 uzbekistan is a large producer and significant exporter of cotton. not in soviet era, right now, in the present. they cannot stop.
@@SuperTheTheresa Honey, they are pumpping water into the desert from the badly designed wasteful canals and dams. It has nothing to do with cotton. They can have the cotton and the Aral Sea, if someone has a iota of care. None has. The Communist mentality -- if it is not my duty, then I don't care-- is very much there today, and the dictators running the place couldnt care less either
@@TWOCOWS1 they are. the result of that is that they have cotton. they need cotton.
my GOD
Good and interesting film. However, I lacked more information about the underlying cause of the problem, namely cotton cultivation. What is being done there today? The only way to restore the lake is to reduce water consumption - which means reducing cotton cultivation. At least initially reduce the area under cotton cultivation and introduce better irrigation techniques.
Which also means better pay for less matter for the people cultivating cotton, meaning pay more for our clothes in the Western world. We have an indirect responsibility in what is happening in the Aral sea area
I agree with you@@SLICE_Earth
@@SLICE_Earth ridiculous statement
Environmental Disaster was a bit too much. They withhold the water upstream. Also that scientist. Water back, life back. Duh. With the microscope on a truck hood. Comical.
No.@@lo2740
I remember the final years of the Soviet Union there was a plan to turn back two major rivers that ran into the arctic the work was underway with the building of power stations to pump the water back unfortunately the work was abandond my Mr Gorbachov and his Crew who were more interested in creating Millionaires than doing important work for the people.
A map showing where it is would be useful.
You can always look it up too.
People who haven’t been outside of the wealthy western world can’t understand how this is a complex life and death struggle for millions. Cutting agricultural output would starve an entire country, meanwhile, the population isn’t sufficiently educated enough to get white collar jobs which aren’t extractive in nature. Unlike the US or Europe, the local population doesn’t have access to the technology, or capital to quickly pivot the entire economy.
This is a humanitarian and ecological disaster which, thank god, is being fixed. Just understand this is a critical problem experienced in many already impoverished areas.
Exactly this.
As I commented before, that region was extremely poor, perhaps one of the poorest in the world, before irrigation and agriculture came. Now we have better technology and abilities to change irrigation for better
Precisely. When all of that fresh water was running into a salt lake, I bet it felt criminal for the Soviet Authorities. Imagining how people could be uplifted by agricultural development but watching that fresh water become worthless….
looks like a setting for Mad Max world
all have been filmed in Australia
From Caspian Sea to Aral sea is 250KM only, and the cost of 1 metre water pipeline is 4 milliom per KM, is that simple?
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Thank you!!
Let the rivers flow into the basin and it will fill up again.
i think a moveable dam can fix this instead of a permanent dam, when the water level rises , water area should expand
A moveable dam, how would you have that in mind? How would you make a dam strong enough to hold back million of tons of water and still be able to move it? I think you mean more along the line of additional dams. To create compartments. And once one dam is not needed anymore then remove it?
And what did they do the last 30 years?Would be worthwhile also to see something ?
Or was it only complaining and bemoaning the past?
Waiting for Moscow to pay?
These states wanted to be independent.
Have an own -elected - President with a nice palace and a fleet of Mercedes cars.
And what did these Presidents do for their own people?
Should make a film about that as well.
A canal connecting the Caspian to the aral can restore it in no time
Is the Caspian salt water? If so, that's probably not a good idea.
@@DJ-bh1ju the aral itself is salty water as it's a reminant of an ocean that once covered all the area
Aral was salt water. Geographically speaking, it is always going to have ultra high evaporation rate. High evaporation rate=Salt lake.@@DJ-bh1ju
Then caspian will dry up
@@navneetsahay196 make sense but the Caspian got rivers flow into it keeping it alive
Good effort: however further time on the causes and the ongoing issues in the wider catchment area would give a more comprehensive view of the disaster that is still unfolding.
The human greed to exploit every mineral from Kazakhstans vast area has led to such devastating polution not only of its surface but of the air above it.
It has been and will be very difficult for any regime of such a small population to resist exploiting iits vast resourses when the countires all around with populations out of control are willing to pay and eager to help exploit these resourses and use its vast steppe for scientific experiments such as nuclear testing and unsustainable farming methods, whatever the consequences to the ecology and future generations.
12:50 ... Japanese speaks Uzbek?? 😲
Mag tree planting kayo
",climate change...!!😊
Yeahh right...
Now yall wrong for laying them bones out like that at the beginning . Childish lol
Um...lets not forget this makes ir REALLY easy to get to Aralsk 7.....which is bad......very bad.
*TOO MUCH DRAMA MUSIC!!!*
Agreed,it's not an episode of starwars😂
Ahh the magical touch of the soviet union to felt for decades to come
ridiculous music background
The earth's climates shift endlessly around the world so no one climate ever dominates the earth that's why climates and weather are changing in countries around the world
The climate has been changing for millions of years and is not gonna stop for us! We can only survive it!
Yeah... who was building too many coal fired plants and caused the climate change that dried up the lake in the 1300s and before? Must have been all of the camel farts producing Methane.
The Aral Sea was killed by the Russian Government , they closed the entrances of water too it. The Government wanted to use it for agriculture .
The annoying music is very distracting
Now in 2024, President Putin wants to do this to the whole world?
A good effort, lets hope they win! The PuTANS stole the water when they "owned" Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.. to plant cotton and compete in the cotton trade. Now that Russia has fallen apart, where's the water? And What the hell are they doing in Ukraine?
Ur country Mr?
cotton... thanks for banning hemp Egypt
Soviet union mentality.
Russia is to thank for this disaster and as usual, let others try and fix it.
Using fresh water before it runs into a salt lake is a disaster?
0:26 an ecological Communist catastrophe
you'll find plenty of wasted landscapes around the world thanks to unbridled capitalism. It's mass consumption that's the issue, not mere politics.
The only solution is to replace the water that has been diverted for agriculture. Cut the crap.
Its not as easy as that sadly. Now you have to account for those people who would be affected by that.
Films always show the old ships. They were junkers left behind. The music is lame. There are much bigger humanitarian needs not reported on.
Well, desertification does have a greater impact than the ship in the thumbnail of the video though
it wasn't humanity that destroyed the sea. it was the russians.
Looks like there's many countries creating deserts and ecological disasters all over the planet... Australia, the US, Russia and the list of those in Making is also long.
I sometimes wish the planet would be a better place if there was just few of our species. Whatever nature we touch turns into disaster for everything else
Only Russian,s do it?nice countries feed their generations wit anti Russia sentiment through education system and other media. Ghaddafi do water pipes to inner Syria to make self sufficient in food. But america destroy it by boms to make them beg for food n loot their oil. Killed million,s.
Only Russian,s did this? No other,s did ha?
Whatchu tryna say bruv
Ah, was the Soviets who began it. Russians finished it. Uzbekistanis and Kazachastanis helped by using the water to fuel their fledgling economies.