Can the Aral Sea be restored?

The Aral Sea was the worlds fourth largest lake, and used to lie across the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. It doesnt any more. Its gone, reduced to a tenth of its size. In its place is a wasteland of toxic sand, and one of the most spectacular examples of humankinds destruction of nature.

Heres a primer from NASA, who have watched the sea shrink from their satellites:

I last wrote about the Aral Sea in 2014, which was the year that the main southern basin finally dried up...