| 1 | The drying is due to overuse of the lake's feeder rivers. | |
| 2 | The shrinking Aral Sea has also had a noticeable affect on the region's climate. | |
| 3 | Satellite image of the Aral Sea used to be the fourth largest lake in the world | |
| 4 | By 2000 the Northern and Southern Aral Sea had already separated. | |
| 5 | Most important, perhaps, one company, Aral Tuz, makes 80 percent of the edible salt. |