Pulitzer Center Update May 7, 2018
Photojournalist Taylor Weidman Takes Over Pulitzer Center Instagram
Project
The Return of a Dying Sea
For the fishing villages around the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan, fortunes ebb and flow with the water's...
This week on the Pulitzer Center Instagram account, we will be featuring photojournalist Taylor Weidman's recent reporting on the Aral Sea with Dene-Hern Chen in Kazakhstan.
The Aral Sea used to be the fourth-largest freshwater lake in the world. Its river sources were diverted for agriculture purposes by the Soviet Union, and as a result, fish stocks plummeted and left the surrounding villages jobless. A 2005 World Bank-financed dam project increased both surface area and water levels in parts of the Aral Sea. The North Aral Sea has seen a resurgence of fish—a boon to the communities that rely on it.
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