Environmentalists warn Lake Balkhash facing Ecological Ruin

    Environmentalists warn Lake Balkhash facing ecological ruinCentral Asia’s second-largest lake could meet the same fate as the now-shrunken Aral Sea, Kazakh environmentalists attending an international conference in Almaty on the preservation of Lake Balkhash told Kazakhstan Pravda.     Local dependence and heightened use of the rivers leading into the lake have led...