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Karakum Canal
The Karakum Canal is one of the longest irrigation canals in the world, carrying water from the Amu Darya westward across the Karakum desert of Turkmenistan. Construction began in 1954, and over the following decades it was extended for about 1,300 kilometres past Ashgabat. It made large-scale cotton farming possible but loses much water to seepage and evaporation, and it contributed to the shrinking of the Aral Sea.
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