List of drying lakes
A number of lakes throughout the world are drying or completely dry due to irrigation or urban use diverting inflow.[1][2]
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- Dead Sea in Palestine, Jordan, and Israel[3]
- Hamun Lake on the Irano-Afghan border[4]
- Salton Sea in California, U.S.[5]
- Lake Chad in Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria[6]
- Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan[7]
- Tulare Lake in California, U.S.[8]
- Lake Urmia in Iran[9]
- Owens Lake in California, U.S.[10]
- Walker Lake in Nevada, U.S.[11]
- Pyramid Lake in Nevada. [12]
- Mono Lake in California, U.S.[13]
- Fucine Lake in Italy (fully drained during the 19th century)
- Poyang Lake in Jiangxi, China[14]
- Qinghai Lake in China
- White Bear Lake in Minnesota, U.S.[15]
- Lake Meredith in Texas, U.S.[16]
- Lake Albert in South Australia[17]
- Lake Hindmarsh in Australia[18]
- Lake Poopó in Bolivia[19]
- Lake Copais, in Boeotia, Greece
- Lake George, in New South Wales, Australia[20]
- Nainital, in Uttarakhand, India[21]
- Bakhtegan Lake in Iran
- Lake Amik in Turkey
- Lake Faguibine in Mali[22]
- Lake Chapala in Mexico[23]
- Lake Mead in Nevada and Arizona, U.S.[24]
References
- ^ Pearce, Fred (2006). When the Rivers Run Dry: Water, the Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century. Beacon Press.
- ^ Hammer, U.T. (1986). Saline Lake Ecosystems of the World. Vol. 59. Springer. p. 61.
- ^ 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. Archived from the original on 2018-10-21. 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-04-05. Retrieved 2013-10-11.
- ^ Chereb, Sandra (2009-04-29). "Loon festival canceled - lake is drying up". Associated Press.
- ^ Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Truckee Meadows Flood Control Project Nevada, General Reevaluation Report (PDF) (Report). Vol. 1. US Army Corps of Engineers. May 2013. p. 9. Retrieved 2018-11-02.
- ^ "History of the Mono Lake Committee". Mono Lake Committee.
- ^ Thibault, Harold (2012-01-31). "China's largest freshwater lake dries up". The Guardian.
- ^ "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. 15 (2): 127–140. doi:10.1177/095624780301500204.
- ^ "Shrinking Lake Mead Water Levels Could Trigger Official Shortage". Arizona Public Media. 1 February 2017.