Possible Clues:

• World's fourth-largest inland body of water
• Noted lake with more than 10% salinity
• Fast-shrinking body
• About 12,000 square miles of Asia
• A lake's in the region providing water
• It borders Kazakhstan
• Lara is up over the ocean in Asia
• Kazakh waters
• It separates Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
• Body of water south of Orsk