Reveal lake shrinkage due to severe drought

As regional and global temperatures significantly increase, major water bodies that people, plants, and animals depend on are drying. Severe droughts due to climate change are of increasing concern to water supplies around the world, keeping these lakes from replenishing as they dry or as increasing human populations drain more water from them. Change in lakes is to some extent typical; they rise and fall with regular seasonal variation. Some may be drained for maintenance or irrigation purposes or dammed for other human development purposes. But severe drought, especially one that occurs for many consecutive years, may be one of many cumulative impacts for why lakes are shrinking. The lakes that you will explore in this story are lakes where drought is a significant contributing factor for the falling water levels.