A beautiful, exalted goal: to build a garden city in the Central Asian desert, irrigated uselessly leaving into the ocean by the waters of Siberian rivers, which a person will turn back, armed with the achievements of Soviet science. But it turned out that science cannot calculate the consequences of such a project. The matter did not reach the turn of the great rivers, however, the current irrigation system gave rise to not only the snow -white fields of precious cotton, but also the salty swamps that destroy useful plantations due to the rise of groundwater; Half-witted rivers of Amu-Darya and Syr-Darya cannot stop the natural process of shallowing of the Aral Sea, and its bottom becomes a desert covered with salt, blown up by the wind and a source of previously unprecedented diseases … The author of this book, a popularizer of science with half-century experience, Rudolf Balandin, describes many situations when unwilling for laws The biospheres in the history of the twentieth century were turned into a tragedy. The book will amaze you with its unexpected difference from modern …
Author
Balandin Rudolf Konstantinovich
Editor
Zalesskaya M.K.
Publisher
Veche, 2012
Series
Great secrets of history
Genre
Geography and Earth Science
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