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List of drying lakes Lake name Location Coordinates Original size as of Reduced size as of References Aral Sea: Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan: 68,000 km 2 (26,000 sq mi) 1960 14,280 km 2 (5,510 sq mi) 2010 [3] Lake Chad: Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria
The film was first screened at the 6th World Water Forum in Marseille, France, in 2012 and was available on the website waterunites-ca.org [88] and on Alfred Diebold's YouTube channel waterunitesca. [89] In October 2013, Al Jazeera produced a documentary film called People of the Lake, directed by Ensar Altay, describing the current situation. [90]
Due to the increasing salinity and pollution of the lake over the years from agricultural runoff and other sources, the communities substantially shrank in size, or have been abandoned. The smell of the lake, combined with the stench of the decaying fish, also contributed to the decline of the tourist industry around the Salton Sea.
The lake, which at its deepest is about 20 feet, had drained by 2.5 feet within the first two weeks. The shoreline had retreated by several feet, leaving a noticeable watermark around the edge.
On May 7, the lake was at 114% of its historical average level. The so-called bathtub ring that clearly outlined the lake in 2022 — so stark it was visible from space — had disappeared by 2024.
The lake is a major barrier between Urmia and Tabriz, two of the most important cities in the provinces of West Azerbaijan and East Azerbaijan. [35] A project to build a highway across the lake was initiated in the 1970s but was abandoned after the Iranian Revolution of 1979, leaving a 15 km (9.3 mi) causeway with an unbridged gap. [36]
The mysterious Lake Sawa in southern Iraq was once a very popular destination for tourists who came from far and wide to visit. They journeyed there with hopes of healing and for religious and ...
This is the subcategory of former lakes, those that once existed but have since dried up, been claimed by the ocean or an even larger lake, or otherwise disappeared.. See also shrunken lakes — natural lakes that have permanently shrunk considerably in size but still exist in one or more permanent significant remnants.