Utah State University: Vanishing Act - Desiccated Lake in Chile Has Parallels to Struggling Great Salt Lake
March 25, 2022
March 25, 2022
LOGAN, Utah, March 25 (TNSRes) -- Utah State University issued the following news:
By Lael Gilbert
Lake Aculeo is gone. Just a decade ago in central Chile, water lapped across an area four times the size of New York's Central Park, with depths up to 20 feet. But by April 2019, the water had been completely extracted, replaced by swirling clouds of dust and opportunistic vegetation rooted sporadically across a stretch of dry earth.
A combination of fact . . .
By Lael Gilbert
Lake Aculeo is gone. Just a decade ago in central Chile, water lapped across an area four times the size of New York's Central Park, with depths up to 20 feet. But by April 2019, the water had been completely extracted, replaced by swirling clouds of dust and opportunistic vegetation rooted sporadically across a stretch of dry earth.
A combination of fact . . .