List of drying lakes

Satellite imagery from 1984 to 2014 revealing Lake Urmia's diminishing surface area.

A number of lakes throughout the world are drying or completely dry due to irrigation or urban use diverting inflow. Climate change is also a factor in drying some lakes.^[1]

• Dead Sea in Israel and Jordan^[2]
• Hamun Lake on the Irano-Afghan border^[3]
• Salton Sea in California^[4]
• Lake Chad in Africa^[5]
• Aral Sea in Central Asia^[6]
• Tulare Lake in California^[7]
• Urmia Lake in Iran^[8]
• Owens Lake in California^[9]
• Lake Mead in Nevada and Arizona^[10]
• Chung Cheng Lake (also: Zhongzheng Lake (中正湖) ),^[11] Singapore.
• Walker Lake in Nevada^[12]
• Mono Lake in California^[13]
• Fucine Lake in Italy
• Poyang Lake in China^[14]
• Qinghai Lake in China
• White Bear Lake in Minnesota^[15]
• Lake Meredith in Texas^[16]
• Lake Albert in South Australia^[17]
• Buffalo Lake in Texas
• Great Salt Lake in Utah
• Lake Hindmarsh in Australia
• E.V. Spence Reservoir in Texas
• Lake Poopo in Bolivia^[1][18]
• Lake Powell, on the border between Arizona and Utah.
• Lake Copais, in Boeotia, Greece.
• Lake George, in New South Wales, Australia.
• Nainital, in Uttarakhand, India.

References

1. Casey, Nicholas (July 7, 2016). "Climate Change Claims a Lake, and an Identity". New York Times.
2. Spencer, Richard (2009-10-10). "Jordan to refill shrinking Dead Sea with salt water". The Telegraph.
3. Partov, Hassan (1998). "Lake Hamoun". United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP): DEWA/GRID Europe. Retrieved 24 September 2010.
4. Abou-Diwan, Antoine (2013-09-10). "Salton Sea could be worse than Owens Lake". Imperial Valley Press.
5. "Vanishing Lake Chad — A Water Crisis in Central Africa". Circle of Blue. 2008-06-24.
6. "Aral Sea 'one of the planet's worst environmental disasters'". The Telegraph. 2010-04-05.
7. Brewer, Chris (2004). Historic Tulare County: A Sesquicentennial History, 1852-2002. p. 54.
8. "Iran's largest lake turning to salt". Associated Press. 2011-05-25.
9. Sahaguin, Louis (2006-12-07). "In Owens Valley, water again flows" (PDF). Los Angeles Times.
10. Barnett, Tim P.; Pierce, David W. (2008). "When will Lake Mead go dry?". Water Resources Research. 44 (3): n/a. doi:10.1029/2007WR006704.
11. at the Chung Cheng High School
12. Chereb, Sandra (2009-04-29). "Loon festival canceled - lake is drying up". Associated Press.
13. "History of the Mono Lake Committee". Mono Lake Committee.
14. "China's largest freshwater lake dries up". The Gardian.
15. "White Bear Lake levels continue to be in dispute". KARE11 News. 2015-06-22.
16. Blackburn, Elliott (2011-01-13). "Lubbock water supplier switches off pumps at Lake Meredith to preserve what's left". Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.
17. "South Australia seeks more Murray River flow from upstream states to fight Lake Albert salinity". ABC Online. 2014-09-02.
18. "Lake Poopo dries up". Reuters. 2015-12-17.