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Lake Chad: 'Rate of its shrinking is getting faster' [1]

Lake Chad in Central Africa provides water to around 30 million people in four neighbouring countries, but it has lost 90 percent of its surface area in the last 100 years.

Publication Date: 
20/03/2018
Al Jazeera [2]
Tags:
Water Resources [3], Lakes [4], Chad [5], Ecology [6], Freshwater Ecosystems [7], Africa [8]

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[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/africa