[DOC] [TLE] Water and Lakes [PAR] Lake Chad, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon; Challawa Gorge Dam, Nigeria ... 
has tripled over the past half century, as world population has grown from 2.5 to 
... Water volume in the Aral sea has dropped by about 80% since 1960s, due to ... 
a shrunken lake, comparatively much smaller surface area than in 1972 image. [DOC] [TLE] Lake - Wikipedia [PAR] A lake is an area of variable size filled with water, localized in a basin, that is 
surrounded by ... The Caspian Sea is either the world's largest lake or a full-
fledged sea. ... Most lakes have at least one natural outflow in the form of a river 
or stream, ..... has been largely suppressed in the developed world over the past 
century. [DOC] [TLE] Biggest Lakes in the World Under Pressure From Human and ... [PAR] Jun 3, 2015 ... Lake Urmia, a vast salt lake in Iran, is shrinking dramatically due to water .... Iran 
is constructing dams to supply expanding agricultural fields that siphon ... The 
Aral Sea, once the fourth largest lake in the world, has been shrinking ... Over the 
second half of the 20th century, the problem also emerged in... [DOC] [TLE] 8 Mighty Rivers Run Dry From Overuse -- National Geographic [PAR] March 22 is World Water Day, a time to reflect on the state of the world's 
freshwater. ... It provides water for 30 million people, and has many dams and 
diversions along ..... freshwater and preserve the extraordinary diversity of life 
that rivers, lakes, and ... For more than 15 years, Osvel Hinojosa Huerta has been 
resurrecting... [DOC] [TLE] Iran's largest lake turning to salt - The Watchers [PAR] May 26, 2011 ... They put 5 percent of the blame on construction of dams and 3 percent ... The first 
alarm over the lake's shrinking came in late 1990s amid a ... Aral Sea in 
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, which has been steadily ... It is the largest lake in 
the Middle East and THE SECOND LARGEST salt water lake in the world. [DOC] [TLE] Dams: Their Impacts on Coastal Environments - SeaWeb - Ocean ... [PAR] Dams and water diversions have degraded or rendered inaccessible large areas 
of ... River, the largest river in New England, by 1814 due to a dam constructed 
upstream in 1798. ... carried by the world's rivers-and ultimately to the ocean-was 
dammed: this amount is expected to rise to over 20% by early next century. [DOC] [TLE] Ice Sheets, Rising Seas and Global Warming [PAR] As the ice surged into the sea, the world's sea-coasts would flood. ... Emiliani 
thought the cause of the flooding might not have been an Antarctic surge, but ... 
melting glaciers (most of the world's small mountain glaciers were in fact 
shrinking). ..... were still arguing over how much of the 20th century's sea level 
rise was due to... [DOC] [TLE] Aral Sea basin - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United ... [PAR] Since ancient times these oases have been at the centre of human activity 
because ... Before 1960, the Aral Sea ranked as the world's fourth largest lake, 
after the ... The Amu Darya basin is divided into two unequal parts: the smaller 
upstream to ... in Tajikistan and forms the border between Tajikistan and 
Uzbekistan over a... [DOC] [TLE] Lake Chad [PAR] change. Within the last century the lake has been as large as ... The Lake Chad 
Basin has extensive floodplains. ... drainage basin holds one of the largest areas 
of wetlands ... Due to climatic fluctuation over time, the annual floods ... Similarly, 
poorly-designed dams and unsustainable ...... If this trend in the shrinking of the. [DOC] [TLE] For California Salmon, Drought And Warm Water Mean Trouble by ... [PAR] Jan 5, 2015 ... With record drought and warming waters due to climate change, ... has at times 
left thousands of adult Chinook  the largest species of ... Then, in the 20th 
century, came the extensive systems of dams and canals built for agriculture. ... 
Even the remote Klamath River, which

Question: Over the centuries, this "sea", the world's largest lake, has been getting smaller due to extensive damming
Answer: the Caspian Sea