OGDEN -- The Aral Sea, in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in central Asia, and Great Salt Lake are both large bodies of very salty, stinky water that don't get a lot of respect. But could Great Salt Lake and Utah end up like the Aral Sea, which is widely considered one of the largest man-made ecological disasters on the planet?
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