When Akshabak Batimova was growing up, her father left their village in western Kazakhstan each morning to fish in the Aral Sea until recently, one of the world’s largest lakes.
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Aral Sea, a once-large saltwater lake of Central Asia. It was once the world’s fourth largest body of inland water but has shrunk remarkably because of the diversion of its sources of inflowing water for irrigation beginning in the second half of the 20th century.