Aral sea

The Kazakhstan government has secured a multi-million dollar loan from the World Bank to help save the Aral Sea. The money will be used to implement the second stage of a project aimed at saving the northern part of the sea. The United Nations has said the disappearance of the Aral is the worst man-made environmental disaster. this new project could mean that at least part of the Aral - once the world's fourth largest inland body of water - will be saved.