Geography of Kazakhstan the water in Kazakhstan is polluted by industrial effluents, pesticide and fertilizer residue, and, in some places, radioactive elements. The most visible damage has been to the Aral Sea, which as recently as the 1970s was larger than any of the Great Lakes of North America save Lake Superior. The sea began to shrink rapidly when sharply increased irrigation and other demands on the only significant tributaries, the Syr Darya and the Amu Darya (the latter reaching the Aral from neighboring Uzbekistan), all but eliminated inflow. During the Soviet Era, Kazakhstan received water from Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan,
Between the Rivers Historic District Street over the Etowah River and a 1930 iron truss bridge which brings Second Avenue over the Ooostanaula River. A boundary increase in 1989 added one contributing building, the Union Bus Terminal, and provided additional information, including that the Second Avenue bridge had been demolished, around 1983, and replaced. Between the Rivers Historic District The Between the Rivers Historic District in Rome, Georgia, USA, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The listing included 292 contributing buildings and three contributing structures. It is a hilly area, with three sides defined by