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Termez, Uzbekistan — The Amu Darya, one of two main rivers that for millennia fed the now rapidly shrinking Aral Sea, no longer does. Reporting by VOA along the length of the river in Uzbekistan ...

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At 100 metres wide and 285 kilometres (177 miles) long, it will draw water from the Amu Darya in Kaldar district of Balkh province at a point just west of Uzbekistan’s border with Tajikistan.

But much further downstream, where the Amu Darya winds down into its delta, the river turns into a smaller version of itself. Kosimov says it's the folks here that'll have to worry.

With every year, the water levels of the Amu Darya drop, mostly because of overuse, mismanagement and climate change. Three decades after the fall of the Soviet Union, Uzbekistan still directs 90% ...

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's been called the Nile of Central Asia. The Amu Darya River flows for thousands of miles through four countries and eventually spills into the shrinking Aral Sea.