The following sea has almost completely disappeared because of irrigation in the area
The Aral Sea
Explanation:
The Aral Sea is actually a huge lake, located between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in Central Asia.
In recent decades, much of the water which used to flow into the Aral Sea has been taken for growing crops. As a result, the Aral Sea has shrunk dramatically. Nearly two-thirds of the lake has vanished since 1970.
Once the fourth largest lake in the world, Central Asia's shrinking Aral Sea has reached a new low, thanks to decades-old water diversions for irrigation and a more recent drought.
Satellite imagery released this week by NASA shows that the eastern basin of the freshwater body is now completely dry.
Today, more people than ever rely on irrigation from rivers that should instead flow into the sea, and the impact of irrigation is compounded by another new factor: climate change. This makes the Aral Sea very sensitive to variations in its water balance caused either by climate or by humans.
