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[-] 342345@feddit.de 109 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Indeed. It's gone since 2018. It took men 70 years to drain it. There is a time lapse of It's last 18 years: Poof.

Now I'm sad.

[-] Stoneykins@mander.xyz 57 points 5 months ago

Ew you got some politicalcompassmemes on your post.

Otherwise good tho

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 47 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

More like: 1989 (right) and 2014 (wrong)

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 35 points 5 months ago

Apparently Kazakhstan is trying to do something to refill it in but there's actually some disputes about it because of how the repurposed water is being used elsewhere?

[-] grue@lemmy.world 64 points 5 months ago

because of how the repurposed water is being used elsewhere?

The whole reason it dried up is that the rivers that fed it got diverted for irrigation.

[-] Yokozuna@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

It's a big spot on Google earth that is pretty visible even zoomed all of the way out, I found out about this while zooming around on it one day and noticing an oddly colored spot.

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 14 points 5 months ago
[-] newerAccountWhoDis@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

I did that! capitalist-laugh

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Salton Sea. Tulare lake. Soon Colorado River and Mississippi River

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago

may as well add "complex life on planet earth" to the list as well at this point

[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 8 points 5 months ago

When I first read the title, I thought, “Great another oil spill”

[-] M68040@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago
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