| 1 | We looked out across the river, to the majestic Amu. | |
| 2 | The Aral Sea gets almost all its water from the Amu and Syr rivers. | |
| 3 | Businessman Roman Abramovich and gal-pal-designer Darya Zhukova enjoy "most famous couple" status. | |
| 4 | Sites under exploration are located in Mary Province, in western and northern Turkmenistan, on the right bank of the Amu Darya, and offshore in the Caspian Sea. | |
| 5 | In the 1960s the former Soviet Union diverted the Syr Darya and Amu Darya for the irrigation of cotton and paddy fields. |