OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) Each year Lake Oroville helps water a quarter of the nation’s crops, sustain endangered salmon beneath its massive earthen dam and anchor the tourism economy of a Northern California county that must rebuild seemingly every year after unrelenting wildfires.
PUNACA TINTA MARIA, Bolivia (AP) For many generations, the homeland of the Uru people here wasn't land at all: It was the brackish waters of Lake Poopo. The Uru “people of the water” would build a sort of family island of reeds when they married and would survive on what they could harvest from the broad, shallow lake in the highlands of southwestern Bolivia.
Naegleria fowleri and the potential for Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis is very rare, but something to be aware of as you enjoy your summer on area lakes.
Yunnan province will strive to develop its ecological civilization construction during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25) with the goal to build an ecological brand of "Animal Kingdom, Plant Kingdom and World Garden".
Pollution and climate change have chipped away at the ecology of Manchar Lake. As a result, the indigenous fishermen, the Mohanas, have been forced to leave their boathouses and live in poverty.