🚧 Dike Kokaral

Dike Kokaral is a 12 km (7.5 mi) long dam across a narrow stretch of the former Aral Sea, splitting off the North Aral Sea from the area that once contained the much larger South Aral Sea. The dike is conserving the dwindling waters of the Syr Darya river and maintaining the damaged ecology of the North Aral Sea, at the expense of sealing the fate of the larger South Aral. Work was completed in August 2005, with help from the World Bank. Dike Kokaral is named after the Kokaral peninsula, which would connect it to the other shore of the Aral Sea and separate the northern from the southern seas.