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f fresh water and health problems, including high rates of certain forms of cancer and lung diseases. Respiratory illnesses (most of which is drug resistant) and cancer, digestive disorders, anaemia, and infectious diseases are mon ailments in the region. Liver, kidney and eye problems can also be attributed to the toxic dust storms. Health concerns associated with the region are a cause for an unusually high fatality rate amongst vulnerable parts of the population. ? Reasons : In the early 1960s, the Soviet decided that the two rivers that fed the Aral Sea, the Amu Darya in the south