Aral Sea went from the third largest lake in the world to a salt desert https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea

This is completely human caused — the whole thing was drained by people for irrigation 

It has set up the largest primary succession experiment ever — watching to see if anything grows in the salt desert left behind https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-59560-8_5

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They low key felt at the time using up all the water was more important than preserving it. Way more cavalier than we might be. It’s wild