THE CAUSES AND WAYS OF SOLUTION OF THE ARAL CRISIS

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  • Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences and State Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China

Received date: 1991-01-15

  Revised date: 1991-03-04

  Online published: 1991-06-15

Abstract

Referring to papers presented to the International Conference on Aral crisis and relative literature on journals of Soviet Union and by the author's field work, the causes, consequences and ways of solution of Aral crisis are described in this article. It is argu'd that the unbalance of economic and social development with population, resources, ecology and environment in regional development is the main cause of Aral crisis. The ways of solution of Aral crisis would be as follows:1) Saving water, including restructuring of agricultural land use and crop cultivation, improving of irrigation system and irrigation technique and optimal controlling of agriculture drain off w.ter:2) Exploiting new water resource; water transferring from otherdralnage basin, artificial precipitation and transferring-oriented of water gas. Finally, the trends of Aral crisis development are discussed.

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Mao Hanying . THE CAUSES AND WAYS OF SOLUTION OF THE ARAL CRISIS[J]. GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH, 1991 , 10(2) : 76 -84 . DOI: 10.11821/yj1991020009

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