Environmental catastrophe, "said Ban - Aral descending | The diminishing Aral Sea

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Sunday witnessed one of the world's worst environmental disasters as he flies over the reduction in the Aral Sea - a view which he said, also need collective action to save the planet Capital.



Aral Sea, once the world's fourth largest lake manager, has in recent decades has shrunk in size by more than 70 percent after the arm was abstracted rivers for irrigation projects. Salinity in the region of the country has increased and the area is also very dirty.

"This is definitely one of the worst environmental disaster in the world? It really left me with an overriding sense of misery that such a potent sea has disappeared."

Urgent environmental action is the desire of the Aral Sea, according the UN desk Ban Ki-moon, who was to fly over the battle area by air today. Aral Sea has been declining in recent decades, so even though it was once the fourth largest lake in the world are now damping by 70%.

"It was a living witness to what happens when we waste our general natural resources, when we neglect our environment when we are sick of our attitude."

In his last trip to Central Asia, "said Ban told reporters after his plane trip and said that the cause was terrible. Clearly surprised, he said: "This is positively one of the worst environmental ruin in the world? It really left me with a deep sense of misery that such a large lake has disappeared." He was on tour in the locality in Uzbekistan, Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev

Speaking later at a formal banquet in the capital, Tashkent, noted that General Secretary flight remind him quickly to Africa's Lake Chad in 2008. "It has also shrunk to a fraction of its former size, with terrible consequences for millions of people.



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