List of drying lakes
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]
List
- Dead Sea in Israel and Jordan[2]
- Hamun Lake on the Irano-Afghan border[3]
- Salton Sea in California, U.S.[4]
- Lake Chad in Africa[5]
- Aral Sea in Central Asia[6]
- Tulare Lake in California, U.S.[7]
- Urmia Lake in Iran[8]
- Owens Lake in California, U.S.[9]
- Walker Lake in Nevada, U.S.[10]
- Mono Lake in California, U.S.[11]
- Fucine Lake in Italy (fully drained during the 19th century)
- Poyang Lake in China[12]
- Qinghai Lake in China
- White Bear Lake in Minnesota, U.S.[13][14]
- Lake Meredith in Texas, U.S.[15]
- Lake Albert in South Australia[16]
- Lake Hindmarsh in Australia[17]
- Lake Poopo in Bolivia[1][18]
- Lake Copais, in Boeotia, Greece
- Lake George, in New South Wales, Australia[19]
- Nainital, in Uttarakhand, India[20]
- Bakhtegan Lake in Iran
- Lake Amik in Turkey
- Lake Faguibine in Mali[21]
- Lake Chapala in Mexico[22]
- Lake Mead in Nevada and Arizona, U.S.[23]
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.
- ↑ 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 Guardian.
- ↑ "White Bear Lake levels continue to be in dispute". KARE11 News. 2015-06-22.
- ↑ "Fight over groundwater pumping follows white bear restrictions". StarTribune. 2018-05-20.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Ker, Peter (2011-01-25). "Parched lake may end 15-year dry". The Age. Retrieved 2016-09-20.
- ↑ "Lake Poopo dries up". Reuters. 2015-12-17.
- ↑ Woodford, James (30 November 2002). "Getting to the bottom of the Lake George mystery". Sydney Morning Herald.
- ↑ Upadhyay, Vineet (May 26, 2017). "Naini lake drying up, experts worried, tourists dismayed". Times of India.
- ↑ "Drying of Lake Faguibine, Mali". Earth Observatory. NASA. August 10, 2008.
- ↑ von Bertrab, Etienne (October 1, 2003). "Guadalajara's water crisis and the fate of Lake Chapala: a reflection of poor water management in Mexico". Environment and Urbanization. International Institute for Environment and Development. 15 (2): 127. doi:10.1177/095624780301500204.
- ↑ "Shrinking Lake Mead Water Levels Could Trigger Official Shortage". Arizona Public Media. 1 February 2017.
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