Lake Chad was once one of Africa's largest bodies of fresh water, close in surface area to North America's Lake Erie. Now reduced to only about 1 20 th that size in 4 decades due to drought and water needs
Lake Chad was once one of the African continent's largest bodies of fresh water, close in surface area to North America's Lake Erie. But today it is a ghost of its former self, reduced to only about 1/20 th its former size in just four decades, thanks to prolonged drought and human demand for water.True-color image taken by NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on October 21, 2001.
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