More than half of the world's large lakes and reservoirs have shrunk since the early 1990s chiefly because of the climate crisis and human consumption intensifying concerns about water supply for agriculture, hydropower and human consumption, a study has found.A team of international researchers reported that some of the world's most important freshwater sources from the Caspian Sea between Europe and Asia, to South America's Lake Titicaca lost water at a cumulative rate of about 22 gigatonnes a year for nearly three decades, equivalent to the total water use in the US for the entire year of 2015.
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