Multiple choice

What was the main cause of the Aral Sea drying up?

  1. Soviet irrigation

  2. God's wrath

  3. Over-consumption by livestock

  4. Global Warming

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Explanation

The Aral Sea began to shrink in the 1960s after the Soviet Union diverted the rivers that fed it for large-scale irrigation projects to grow cotton in the desert.