The Aral Sea
Blue dream, white death or silent hope? The Aral Sea once the fourth largest lake of the world is only a shadow of itself. The Kokaral dam is to save which was lost a long time ago. A legend tells that, once upon a time, the Gods dropped a large and beautiful turquoise on earth while playing free of care. A lake abundant with beauty, water and fish, emerged immediately in that spot. Today the Aral Sea is one of the most visible environment disasters of the world. The bypass of water, through an inefficient irrigation system for the cultivation of cotton, cut off the supplies to the lake for half a century. But hope dies last. “Life has become much better. Today there are more than 20 species of fish here again,” a fisherman reports. Then his words are swallowed up by the rusty rattling of his motorcycle and are transformed into salty dust in the pityless expanses of the desert.
