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:

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

• Dead Sea in Israel and Jordan^[1]
• Hamun Lake on the Irano-Afghan border^[2]
• Salton Sea in California^[3]
• Lake Chad in Africa^[4]
• Aral Sea in Central Asia^[5]
• Tulare Lake in California^[6]
• Urmia Lake in Iran^[7]
• Owens Lake in California^[8]
• Lake Mead in Nevada and Arizona^[9]
• Chung Cheng Lake (also: Zhongzheng Lake (中正湖) ),^[10] Singapore.
• Walker Lake in Nevada^[11]
• Mono Lake in California^[12]
• Fucine Lake in Italy
• White Bear Lake in Minnesota ^[13]
• Lake Meredith in Texas^[14]
• Lake Albert in South Australia^[15]
• Buffalo Lake in Texas
• Great Salt Lake in Utah
• Lake Hindmarsh in Australia
• White River Lake in Texas
• E.V. Spence Reservoir in Texas
• Oak Creek Reservoir in Texas^[16]
• Lake Mackenzie in Texas^[17]
• Medina Lake in Texas^[18]

• Lake Poopo in Bolivia^[19]
• Lake Powell, on the border between Arizona and Utah.

References

1. Spencer, Richard (2009-10-10). "Jordan to refill shrinking Dead Sea with salt water". The Telegraph.
2. Partov, Hassan (1998). "Lake Hamoun". United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP): DEWA/GRID Europe. Retrieved 24 September 2010.
3. Abou-Diwan, Antoine (2013-09-10). "Salton Sea could be worse than Owens Lake". Imperial Valley Press.
4. "Vanishing Lake Chad — A Water Crisis in Central Africa". Circle of Blue. 2008-06-24.
5. "Aral Sea 'one of the planet's worst environmental disasters'". The Telegraph. 2010-04-05.
6. Brewer, Chris (2004). Historic Tulare County: A Sesquicentennial History, 1852-2002. p. 54.
7. "Iran's largest lake turning to salt". Associated Press. 2011-05-25.
8. Sahaguin, Louis (2006-12-07). "In Owens Valley, water again flows" (PDF). Los Angeles Times.
9. Barnett, Tim P.; Pierce, David W. (2008). "When will Lake Mead go dry?". Water Resources Research 44 (3): n/a. doi:10.1029/2007WR006704.
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11. Chereb, Sandra (2009-04-29). "Loon festival canceled - lake is drying up". Associated Press.
12. "History of the Mono Lake Committee". Mono Lake Committee.
13. "White Bear Lake levels continue to be in dispute". KARE11 News. 2015-06-22.
14. Blackburn, Elliott (2011-01-13). "Lubbock water supplier switches off pumps at Lake Meredith to preserve what's left". Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.
15. "South Australia seeks more Murray River flow from upstream states to fight Lake Albert salinity". ABC Online. 2014-09-02.
16. http://waterdatafortexas.org/reservoirs/individual/oak-creek. Missing or empty |title= (help)
17. http://waterdatafortexas.org/reservoirs/individual/mackenzie. Missing or empty |title= (help)
18. http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/slideshow/Medina-Lake-vanishing-31321.php. Missing or empty |title= (help)
19. "Lake Poopo dries up". Reuters. 2015-12-17.