Valerie’s Piece #2: Graveyard of Ships

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Valerie reports for Weekend Edition from the once-busy port town of Moynaq, at one point home to more than 40,000 people, now known as “the graveyard of ships.”

Three decades after the fall of the Soviet Union, Uzbekistan still directs 90% of its water to agriculture.

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