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metre (3 ft) deep; by the 1990s, it had virtually dried up. Since the opening of the Irtysh–Karamay Canal in August 2000, the Ailik lake, which had been almost dry, has been able to recover as a deep lake with plenty of fish; now it occupies 50 square kilometres (19 sq mi) and is up to 7 metres (23 ft) deep.
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Baiyang River Reservoir and the Huangyangquan Reservoir (see below) and the concomitant diversion of the Baiyang River waters, the Ailik Lake started shrinking in the 1980s; by the mid 1980s, it was just 15 square kilometres (5.8 sq mi) in size and hardly 1
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Meng, Jiangli (孟江丽) (2013), "西北干旱区水资源利用与生态环境响应研究———以新疆白杨河流域为例 (A study of the use of water resources of the arid regions of the
Northwest and its effect on the environment -- on the example of the Baiyang River basin in Xinjiang)",
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503:Notes
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