Africa satellite images show stark changes in Lake Chad
- added June 16, 2008
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- pilgrimperks
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Satellite images from 1972 and 2007 show water-level decline in Lake Chad, once the world's sixth largest, due to declining rainfall and diversion of water for human use.
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- pilgrimperks
- 2 months ago
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Better go to the diverted route for some H20.
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Dreadful. Millions will die in Africa over the next 5 years from a full continent drought than has only just begun.
Good dig, Jeffreyak-
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- keithponder
- 2 months ago
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Water is not only an issue in Africa, it's an issue for humans.
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True, it is an earth crisis, but this article address a water shorter in Africa. It multiplies problem that exist on that continent already.
That is an informative video on the worlds problem ,however.-
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- keithponder
- 2 months ago
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Again for those people that do not think there is Global Warming, satellite pictures people!!! It is right there!
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- christina71
- 2 months ago
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Apart from global warming we need to manage our water resources better. There are projects in the region that have diverted water for other uses when it should be going to maintain water levels in the lake.
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- observer2121
- 2 months ago
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I never understood how we could 'lose' water. The biggest issue is us wasting and polluting water. Can't we just filter it and reuse it all?
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Lake Chad is an extreme example of what is happening to most of the world's inland lakes. -
Are they gonna change the geography books now?
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population reduction
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- KINGSTON916
- 2 months ago
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Who needs water when you can drive, A BRAND NEW HUMMERRRRR! (cue Price is Right music)
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Here is an idea...lets help fix the problem rather than talk about it or debate over global warming?
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- andrewrules
- 2 months ago
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