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• Artist joins economists among ex-drinkers -- much water needed
• About 26,000 square miles of Asia, once
• Large Asian border lake
• Fourth-largest lake until the 1970s
• Body that's now a fraction of its former self
• Shrinking body of water
• Lake now split into four parts
• The Amu Darya no longer feeds it
• Part of it is now a desert
• Body that's a lot thinner than it used to be
• Amu Darya outlet, once
• Body undergoing desertification
• Asian body of water that's now largely dried up
• Disappearing lake of Asia
• Its surface area is about 25% of what it was in 1960