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NEWS CENTER- Scientists reveal that over the three decades under water was 115 thousand square kilometers of land, thus drained was about 173 thousand square kilometers of water surface.

Scientists from the Netherlands Institute for Deltares analyzed satellite images to study how water on the Earth’s surface has changed over the three decades. According their findings, in total, over the three decades under water was 115 thousand square kilometers of land, thus drained was about 173 thousand square kilometers of water surface.

Dr Fedor Baart from Deltares stated that the large-scale natural irrigation became the Tibetan plateau and the biggest transformation was seen in the Aral Sea.

The scientists said Lake Mead near Las Vegas, which is the largest reservoir in the United States, was also losing water, and 222 square kilometer of it was now land.

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