Sentences with phrase «soviet irrigation project»

This all changed in the 1950s, when a Soviet irrigation project diverted river water to rice and cotton fields miles away.

Projected onto folded cardboard, American artist Patty Chang's poetic and politically charged moving - image work The Wandering Lake (2009) documents Chang's search for the Wandering Lake of Xinjiang, a migrating body of water in the Chinese desert; her subsequent travel to the shrinking Aral Sea, which has lost 70 percent of its water as a result of Soviet irrigation projects; and her tracing of the course of the aqueduct that brings water from Southern China to Beijing.

«Formerly one of the four largest lakes in the world with an area of 68,000 square kilometres (26,300 sq mi), the Aral Sea has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet irrigation projects.»

Not exact matches

But Soviet - sponsored irrigation projects, begun in the 1950s, diverted water from two rivers that fed the sea: the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya.

Many others are similarly stranded in what was once the vast Aral Sea, in Uzbekistan, now radically shrunk by Soviet - era irrigation projects.