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That’s a reasonable assumption, but it was already clearly a problem before the Soviet Union collapsed.
IIRC the USSR had planned to line the rivers with concrete and build other devices so there would be less loss.
Those never got built, and there was even less ability to do so after the collapse.
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ive heard alternatively that the cotton was important for domestic consumer goods or export in the USSR, in either case they made a short sighted decision that was seen to be more important than the preserving an unexploitable salty sea