strategy
Minimizing withdrawal lake and inland sea water
Implementation:
Scientist and politicians agreed in 1997 that the only hope for halting the seemingly inexorable shrinkage of the Aral Sea would involve drastic conservation. But because all the Central Asian countries require great amounts of water for irrigation and power, none is ready to take radical steps. Making a major cut in the amount of water taken from the feeding rivers would mean a big drop in agricultural production, widespread unemployment and tremendous social dislocation. "Maybe we could absorb 5 percent cut, but certainly not more than that." If these countries are going to change their ways and cut their water use, they need to industrialize or at least start growing other crops that don't need as much water. That is a huge project. Broader:
Minimizing Constrained by:
Desiccating lakes Problems:
Desiccation of lakesWater wars
Values:
Withdrawal Subjects:
Oceanography → SeasHydrology → Water
Hydrology → Rivers and lakes
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
