Question

Due to the actions of growth-oriented, unbending bureaucrats, who extracted large amounts of water for cotton irrigation, the ______ Sea is now less than half its previous size.
A. Baltic
B. Black
C. Aral
D. Caspian

Answer 1

The correct answer is C. Aral

Soviet irrigation methods that used much of the water from rivers that join the Aral Sea reduced it to 10% of its original size.

Answer 2

The correct answer is - C. Aral.

The Aral Sea had witnessed a significant decline in its waters over the past half a century and the lake is on the verge of drying out totally and be wiped forever from the face of the Earth. This is happening due to a former Soviet policy were the waters of the lakes were overused for irrigation and bigger amount of water from the lake was taken out of it than what it gets by its tributaries. The water from the lake has mostly been used for the cotton plantations that are very high demanding on water. And even though the Soviet Union is long gone, the same policies continued to be practiced after its fall, so now we only have a pale shadow of what was once one of the biggest and most beautiful lakes in the world.