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AFP – More than half of the world’s largest lakes and reservoirs are dwindling and placing humanity’s future water security at risk, with climate change and unsustainable consumption the main culprits, a study said recently. “Lakes are in trouble globally, and it has implications far and wide,” professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in […]
The shrinking of lakes has led to decline in freshwater supply, environment degradation and deterioration of water quality for humans and livestock. It has also severely impacted water and carbon cycles.
More than 50 percent of the largest lakes in the world are losing water, according to a groundbreaking new assessment published today in Science. The key culprits are not surprising: warming climate and unsustainable human consumption.