As a result of throwing pesticides into the sea, the great catastrophe in the area of the Aral Sea, strongly affected its residents. It is no exaggeration to say that the case of the Aral Sea is one of the greatest environmental catastrophes ever recorded. Unbelievably, the Aral Sea once was one of the biggest in-land seas on earth. Nowadays, however, as it has been covered by loads of pesticides, is now decreasing in area and volume. The shrinkage of the water actually has something to do with the former empire of Russia when Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan once belonged to the Soviet Union. However, the pesticides did not just shrink the water; it affected the human-beings' health problems as well. The environment of the country is becoming worse and worse-there is not enough water and living things are dying. A catastrophe is just like this-one disaster leading to another and almost unable to stop. Even though the Aral Sea has received a lot of attention from other parts of the world in the past decade, unfortunately, however, there is not really a way to solve this problem-it's rather hard to clean up all the messes and catastrophes that the pesticides had brought to the people.
             The Aral Sea is located in the lowlands of Turan occupying land in the Republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. From ancient times it was known as an oasis. Traders, hunters, fishers, and merchants populated this fertile site littered with lagoons and shallow straits that characterized the Aral landscape. The word "Aral" in Kazakh is translated "island", over a thousand of which were scattered throughout this region that made up part of the Silk Road, the highway between Europe and Asia. Once the fourth largest inland body of water in the world, in the past few years the Aral Sea has gained global attention as one of the greatest man-made natural disasters in the world. Now it is the eighth largest inland body of water on account o...