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.
:-(
Ew you got some politicalcompassmemes on your post.
Otherwise good tho
More like: 1989 (right) and 2014 (wrong)
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?
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.
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.
Salton Sea. Tulare lake. Soon Colorado River and Mississippi River
may as well add “complex life on planet earth” to the list as well at this point
When I first read the title, I thought, “Great another oil spill”
