The Aral Sea was once the fourth biggest inland sea in the world.the Sea provided a healthy livelihood for several hundred thousand people.the flow of water into the Sea began to drop alarmingly.

Aral Sea Studies Dr. Daene C. McKinney Center for Research in Water Resources The University of Texas at Austin Since 1994, researchers from the Center for Research in Water Resources (CRWR) at The University of Texas at Austin have been engaged in a program of developing water resource allocation tools (optimization-based ) for use in the Aral Sea Basin of Central Asia. This research has been ...