President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, centre, watches elders digging a breach to allow the flow of water from a tributary canal during an opening ceremony for the man-made Golden Age Lake in the naturally-occurring Karashor depression in northern Turkmenistan, July 2009. Turkmenistan has begun channeling water into a man-made lake in the heart of a barren desert, a Soviet-style engineering feat that some experts fear could cause an environmental catastrophe
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The Guardian
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