Aral Region ; Drinking water ; Ecological catastrophe ; Ecosystem ; Epidemiology ; Former USSR ; Health ; Hydrology ; Pesticide ; Pollution ; Salinity ; Soviet Central Asia ; Water quality
The Aral region is taken as an example of a region of ecological disaster. The processes and phenomena of people's health deterioration caused by the deformation of the environment in connection with hydrological changes are discussed. The situation
in Aral region is regarded as a model of large-scale ecological disaster with a medical-ecological dominant.