What lake in California dried up?

For thousands of years, from the Paleolithic onward, Tulare Lake was a uniquely rich area, which supported perhaps the largest population of Native Americans north of Mexico. In the second half of the 1800s, Tulare Lake was dried up by diverting its tributary rivers for agricultural irrigation and municipal water uses.



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For thousands of years, from the Paleolithic onward, Tulare Lake was a uniquely rich area, which supported perhaps the largest population of Native Americans north of Mexico. In the second half of the 1800s, Tulare Lake was dried up by diverting its tributary rivers for agricultural irrigation and municipal water uses.

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The lake now stretches about 111,000 acres, just a fraction of its historical size of nearly 512,000 acres (800 square miles), and it's currently five to seven feet deep. Fish have populated its waters, and birds have flocked to its shores.

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About 53 percent of the world's lakes have clearly shrunk, the researchers found, while only 22 percent made gains. From these bodies of water, roughly 600 cubic kilometers of water were lost over the 28-year time span.

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But the destruction of the storms can be seen within the lake, which is considered private property and closed to the public. The water is not safe to swim in or recreate in any capacity, Ferrier added. “It's farmland, underwater. You've got diesel fuel, oil, manure, chemicals used to kill bugs and stuff.

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