Lake Chad is a historically large, shallow, endorheic lake in Africa, which has varied in size over the centuries. Likely, that was via HH Lamb, or maybe Reid Bryson, of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and a contemporary of HHL. Lake Chad, once one of Africa’s largest lakes, is in distress. I think I first saw a reference to shrinking Lake Chad about 50 years ago. Just over 200 kilometres north of the Chadian capital, N'Djamena, Lake Chad is one of the oldest lakes in Africa. To understand the condition of Lake Chad, some “setting” details should be identified. The shrinking Lake Chad in northern central Africa has attracted world attention, extensive research and documentation but not world solutions. Shrinking Lake Chad ... Lake Chad in central Africa is but a small fraction of what it once was due to a regionally drying climate and human demand for fresh water. Its basin covers parts of Nigeria, Niger, Chad … . The lake is large and shallow, but through centuries its size has changed considerably.
Published 26 August 2011 • IOP Publishing Ltd Environmental Research Letters, Volume 6, Number 3 Lake Chad in Africa has been considerably shrinking since 1963, threatening the resources and livelihoods in the region. By some measures, it has even been growing.
Solutions are difficult to define because the causes of the lake’s current state are ill defined. The lake is shared by Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria; its basin – which extends as far Algeria, Libya, and Sudan – offers a lifeline to nearly 40 million people. AZ1971 permalink. The UN Environment Programme reports that the lake shrank by 95% since 1963. Lake Chad straddles four countries: Chad with the largest surface area of the lake, Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon. The 30 million people who live in the lake region are being forced into ever-keener competition for this vital and disappearing resource. The shrinking of Lake Chad, which is bordered by 4 African countries (Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria, and Chad), is already an ecological catastrophe but it is fast becoming a very human disaster as well. Lake Chad has shrunk by 90% since the 1960s, due to climate change, an increase in the population and unplanned irrigation. Over the past few decades, satellites have been monitoring the steady decline in the lake’s area as lake turns first to wetlands, and then eventually back into desert.
Lake Chad, once one of the African continent's largest bodies of fresh water, has dramatically decreased in size due to climate change and human demand for water. Image: Lake Chad's shrinking waters by European Space Agency Credit: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2018), processed by ESA (For Landsat image: USGS/ESA), CC … In 1899, Winston Churchill noted that Lake Chad “appears to be leaking”. Like other large lakes, Lake Chad is of great economic importance. In fact, it provides water to more than 30 million people in four different countries (Chad, Cameroon, Niger, and Nigeria).Therefore, peo… Lake Chad has shrunk by 90% since the 1960s, due to climate change, an increase in the population and unplanned irrigation.
But, so far at least, it is not happening due to a shrinking lake.
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