Some of the world’s most important freshwater sources - from the Caspian Sea between Europe and Asia to South America’s Lake Titicaca - lost water at a cumulative rate of around 22 gigatonnes per year for nearly three decades. Read more at straitstimes.com.
LONDON - More than half of the world’s large lakes and reservoirs have shrunk since the early 1990s, chiefly because of climate change, intensifying concerns about water for agriculture, hydropower and human consumption, a study published on Thursday found.
Fangfang Yao, a surface hydrologist at the University of Virginia who led the study in the journal Science, said 56 per cent of the decline in natural lakes was driven by climate warming and human consumption, with warming “the larger share of that”. Scientists assessed almost 2,000 large lakes using satellite measurements combined with climate and hydrological models.
Neary 2 billion people, who live in a drying lake basin, are directly affected and many regions have faced shortages in recent years.
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