Dike built to revive Aral Sea; Soviet-era policies turned world's third-largest lake into saline hazard.(WORLD)(BRIEFING: WESTERN ASIA)

The Washington Times | October 1, 2005 | Copyright

Byline: Christopher Pala, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

KOKARAL, Kazakhstan - Work is ending on a World Bank-financed dike intended to reverse the drying up of the Aral Sea in Central Asia, one of the planet's greatest environmental blunders.

Dictator Josef Stalin - in power from 1941 until his death in 1953 - wanted to make the Soviet Union self-sufficient in cotton, which is used for gunpowder as well as clothing. Stalin's successors during the 1960s and '70s let limitless amounts of irrigation water be tapped from the Amu Darya River in the south and the Syr Darya ...

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