: Fig. 16.13 A satellite image captures an oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico.
Drought
: Fig. 16.14 A satellite image shows the Tarbela hydroelectric dam in Pakistan.
Irrigation
: Fig. 16.15 A satellite image shows the impact of drought on the Sahel Region in Africa.
) Fig. 16.17 Three separate satellite images capture the shrinking of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan/Uzbekistan over a 20-year period, one of the worst human-made environmental disasters in history.
: Fig. 16.16 A satellite image shows irrigated crop circles in the south-western US.
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The Aral Sea disaster is covered in more detail in the Patterns and Processes in the Human Environment Elective.
