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Union treaty formally creates the Soviet Union
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Large scale building of Aral Sea irrigation canals
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Aral Sea is identified as the World’s fourth largest inland lake (68,000 km)
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Commercial fishing in Aral Sea supplies 60,000 jobs
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Aral Sea fish harvest declined by 75%
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Water level decreased enough to split the Aral Sea into two bodies of water
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Fishing was baned in Aral Sea because of the population decrease in fish causing many jobs to be lost
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Aral Sea is declared the world’s worst ecological disaster of the 20th Century
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Construction of dike Kokaral Kazakh government announced a plan to build a concrete dam separating the two halves of the Aral Sea
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Scientists predict the Aral Sea will disappear in 15 years
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Experts predict the Aral Sea will disappear, earlier than originally thought, by the year 2015
