Dike Kokaral is a 12 km long dam across a narrow stretch of the former Aral Sea, splitting off the North Aral Sea (also called "The Small Sea") from the area that once contained the much larger South Aral Sea ("The Large Sea"). The dike is conserving the dwindling waters of the Syr Darya river and maintaining (and attempting to revive) 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.[1] Dike Kokaral is named after the Kokaral peninsula (an island until the 1960s), which would connect it to the other shore of the Aral Sea and separate the northern from the southern seas.
DikeKokaral is a 12 km long dam across a narrow stretch of the former Aral Sea, splitting off the North Aral Sea (also called "The Small Sea") from the...
Aral Sea and the South Aral Sea. In 2005 the DikeKokaral across the Berg Strait was completed. The dike stops water from the North Aral Sea from spilling...
an effort in Kazakhstan to save and replenish the North Aral Sea, the DikeKokaral dam was completed in 2005. By 2008, the water level had risen 12 m (39 ft)...
270 sq mi) in area (JAXA source: 3,600 km2 (1,390 sq mi)). The poorly built DikeKokaral intended to contain the North Aral Sea and save its fisheries failed...
level in the Aral Sea to drop. While the North Aral Sea rose due to the DikeKokaral, the South Aral Sea kept dropping, thus expanding the size of the desert...
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