List of drying lakes
Satellite imagery from 1984 to 2014 revealing Lake Urmia's diminishing surface area.
A number of lakes throughout the world are drying or completely dry due to irrigation or urban use diverting inflow. Climate change is also a factor in drying some lakes.[1]
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- Dead Sea in Israel and Jordan[2]
- Hamun Lake on the Irano-Afghan border[3]
- Salton Sea in California[4]
- Lake Chad in Africa[5]
- Aral Sea in Central Asia[6]
- Tulare Lake in California[7]
- Urmia Lake in Iran[8]
- Owens Lake in California[9]
- Lake Mead in Nevada and Arizona[10]
- Chung Cheng Lake (also: Zhongzheng Lake (中正湖) ),[11] Singapore.
- Walker Lake in Nevada[12]
- Mono Lake in California[13]
- Fucine Lake in Italy
- Poyang Lake in China[14]
- Qinghai Lake in China
- White Bear Lake in Minnesota[15]
- Lake Meredith in Texas[16]
- Lake Albert in South Australia[17]
- Buffalo Lake in Texas
- Great Salt Lake in Utah
- Lake Hindmarsh in Australia
- E.V. Spence Reservoir in Texas
- Lake Poopo in Bolivia[1][18]
- Lake Powell, on the border between Arizona and Utah.
- Lake Copais, in Boeotia, Greece.
- Lake George, in New South Wales, Australia.
- Nainital, in Uttarakhand, India.
References
- 1 2 Casey, Nicholas (July 7, 2016). "Climate Change Claims a Lake, and an Identity". New York Times.
- ↑ Spencer, Richard (2009-10-10). "Jordan to refill shrinking Dead Sea with salt water". The Telegraph.
- ↑ Partov, Hassan (1998). "Lake Hamoun". United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP): DEWA/GRID Europe. Retrieved 24 September 2010.
- ↑ Abou-Diwan, Antoine (2013-09-10). "Salton Sea could be worse than Owens Lake". Imperial Valley Press.
- ↑ "Vanishing Lake Chad — A Water Crisis in Central Africa". Circle of Blue. 2008-06-24.
- ↑ "Aral Sea 'one of the planet's worst environmental disasters'". The Telegraph. 2010-04-05.
- ↑ Brewer, Chris (2004). Historic Tulare County: A Sesquicentennial History, 1852-2002. p. 54.
- ↑ "Iran's largest lake turning to salt". Associated Press. 2011-05-25.
- ↑ Sahaguin, Louis (2006-12-07). "In Owens Valley, water again flows" (PDF). Los Angeles Times.
- ↑ Barnett, Tim P.; Pierce, David W. (2008). "When will Lake Mead go dry?". Water Resources Research. 44 (3): n/a. doi:10.1029/2007WR006704.
- ↑ at the Chung Cheng High School
- ↑ Chereb, Sandra (2009-04-29). "Loon festival canceled - lake is drying up". Associated Press.
- ↑ "History of the Mono Lake Committee". Mono Lake Committee.
- ↑ "China's largest freshwater lake dries up". The Gardian.
- ↑ "White Bear Lake levels continue to be in dispute". KARE11 News. 2015-06-22.
- ↑ Blackburn, Elliott (2011-01-13). "Lubbock water supplier switches off pumps at Lake Meredith to preserve what's left". Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.
- ↑ "South Australia seeks more Murray River flow from upstream states to fight Lake Albert salinity". ABC Online. 2014-09-02.
- ↑ "Lake Poopo dries up". Reuters. 2015-12-17.
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