stackyFACTSDue to catastrophic Soviet irrigation projects, the Aral Sea was drained of nearly all its water over a few decades. Today, rusted hulks of massive fishing fleets sit entirely stranded in a desolate, toxic desert hundreds of miles from the nearest functioning coastline.
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