According to About.com, about 1/3 of the volume and 1/2 of the surface area of the Aral Sea, located in Uzbekistan, has dried up because of diversion by farmers of the two sources (the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers) that feed it.
the aral sea is drying up because the rivers that flow into it are now cut off from it for errigation
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The Aral Sea, before most of it dried up.
It is now almost dried up. The remains are salty.
the aral sea is drying up due to over-irrigation on the yellow river.
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The Aral Sea is a saltwater lake which spans the borders of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. The Aral Sea is drying up due to irresponsible irrigation .
The Aral Sea is an endorheic (dead end) lake in western Asia, on the border between Kazakhstan and northwestern Uzbekistan. More than 80% of the lake area has dried up due to the diversion of water from the rivers that feed the lake, notably by the Karakum Canal completed in 1988.
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Uzbekistan. The Aral Sea has been drying up and farmings used two rivers that send water to the Aral Sea. Those two rivers are Amu Darye and Syr Darye.
That point is roughly in the middle of the blue area on maps labeled the Aral Sea, although the sea itself has largely dried up. The sea forms the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, but my map doesn't show the boundary line where there should be water, so I can't say which of those two countries the point is in.