Coping with the Shrinking Aral Sea

businessweek.com — On the shores of what was once the world's fourth-largest inland body of water, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan are trying different solutions. In less than 40 years the sea has shrunk into two salt lakes, known variously as the Big, or South, Aral and the Small, or North, Aral and a new desert has arisen on 50,000 square kilometers of dried up lake bed. Oct 12, 2006 View in Crawl 4