GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Beginning about 1960, the Aral Sea’s water level was systematically and drastically reduced, because of the diversion of water from the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers for purposes of agricultural irrigation.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the early 1960s, as part of the Soviet government plan for cotton, or “white gold", to become a major export, the Amu Darya river in the south and the Syr Darya river in the east were diverted from feeding the Aral Sea to irrigate the desert in an attempt to grow cotton, melons, rice and cereals.

Detailed explanation-3: -The two rivers that feed the Aral Sea are the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers, where the first one reaches the body of water through the South, while the second reaches through the North.