Muynak

Muynak, additionally spelled as Moynaq is a town in northern Karakalpakstan in western Uzbekistan. Formerly a sea port, now home to only a few thousand citizens at most, Moynoq's population has been declining precipitously since the Nineteen Eighties because of the recession of the Aral Sea. Once a bustling fishing network and Uzbekistan's most effective port town with tens of lots of citizens, Moynoq is now dozens of kilometers from the rapidly receding shoreline of the Aral Sea. Fishing had usually been part of the economy of the place, and Moynoq became a center of industrial fishing and canning.

However, a 1960 Soviet authorities diversion of the Amu-Darya and Syr-Darya rivers, sapped the sea of its inflows, leaving the location very liable to economic crumble, inflicting the Aral Sea to critically dry up. The regional Soviet-led agricultural monoculture dominated by means of cotton production diverted water from the aforementioned tributary rivers of the sea into irrigation, which resulted in severe pollution because of agricultural chemical runoff, causing the ocean to evaporate and leaving the water with extremely high tiers of salinity making it very toxic, inflicting the ecological catastrophe that is destroying the sea and killing the residents of the towns in its area, consisting of Moynoq.