Time Travels's video: How Greed and Incompetence Dried Up One Of The Worlds Biggest Lakes Time Travels

The Aral Sea was rapidly shrinking, due to excessive farming and irrigation. As a result of the drought, the water level in the Aral Sea plummeted, and the once fertile sea became a barren wasteland. 🌎 Subscribe to Time Travels Here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWTZNAGQxEW1NrZHtK6aAqw?sub_confirmation=1 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. 🧐 More Time Travels With Michael Brady: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaMfiT0fYh94DmwcZIV8CYNT3gNuL37gn Journey through time to uncover amazing, dramatic and bizarre stories from the past - but also ask the questions, what does it look like now? And what if things had happened differently? From ancient Rome and colonial Australia, to Victorian era London, early-settler New Zealand and beyond - come with us as we uncover the the pivotal turning points in history that changed the destiny of empires and transformed our world. 🌎 ☎️ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/historytimetravels/ 👻 Snapchat: https://story.snapchat.com/p/cc960ce1-9281-4450-b815-654114302d99/827084423782400