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Kazakhstan: There used to be a river here
01 May 2021, 00:49 GMT+10
The Ural River s lower water levels can no longer be concealed or ignored. Europe s third-longest river has grown shallower over the past decade, and the process intensified in the last three years. In order to understand how this affects peoples lives, journalists Lukpan Akhmedyarov and Raul Uporov met with those who live by the river and depend on it.
River crossing
In West Kazakhstan Province, there are three bridges across the Ural and about four ferries. Ferries only sound like something outdated; in reality, in this province alone, they carry up to half a million people across the river annually. The ferries enable locals to visit family members and friends, organize weddings, go grocery shopping, obtain some necessary paperwork, and conduct simple rural commerce. Sometimes ferries even get funeral processions from one riverbank to the other.
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