Where a lake has formed within the basin, the water body is usually saline as a result of the internal drainage — the water has no outlet to the sea.

Because of a wine glut ( wine lake ) in the generic production, the price squeeze induced by an increasingly strong international competition, and vine pull schemes, the number of growers has recently dropped from 14, 000 and the area under vine has also decreased significantly.

Home to 120 species of fish and at least that many species of birds, the lake has shrunk dramatically in the last four decades due to the increased water from an expanding population usage and low rainfall.

All the environmental impact reports and scientific studies have shown that the Cornell lake source cooling system has not yet had and will not likely have any measurably significant environmental impact.

Kilauea Caldera has an inner crater known as Halema ‘ uma ‘ u, which has often been filled by a lava lake.

The lake has shrunk by 95 % since the 1960s.

During the last several thousand years, the lake has fluctuated approximately, with some significant drops and rises.

Lake Nasser, the world's largest artificial lake, has enabled planned use of the Nile regardless of the amount of rainfall in Central Africa and East Africa.

The fish community of this lake has remained stable over a long period until a number of introduced species | introductions in the 1970s restructured its food web.

The village has a basin for small yachts and a few fishing boats opposite the millpond, an artificial lake which fills at high tide can be emptied through a sluice at low tide.

Because no set definition of what constitutes a lake and no procedures for counting the number of lakes exist, it has been impossible to ascertain exactly how many lakes the region has.

The deepest lake has a depth of only ; the depth of the average lake is.

" However, most of the criticism is of the lack of actual special effects work, as most of it consists of stock footage from previous films, including Godzilla vs. Gigan and Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, and a few pieces of effects work has garnered praise, specifically a scene where Megalon breaks through a dam and the draining of the lake.

Ghana gets 97 % of its energy from damming lake Volta and exports much of this to neighboring countries, however organisations such as the Ghana Nuclear Society have advocated the introduction of nuclear power into Ghana and indeed the country now has an atomic energy commission.

The part of the lake that is attached to Geneva has an area of and is sometimes referred to as Petit lac ( small lake ).

Ysyk-Köl is the second largest body of water in Central Asia, after the Aral Sea, but the saline lake has been shrinking steadily, and its mineral content has been rising gradually.

The lake level has been regulated since the construction of the control weir where the lake discharges into the Blue Nile, which regulates the flow to the Blue Nile Falls ( Tis Abbai ) and hydro-power station.

It is a simple task to haul a boat fifty or one hundred miles to a lake or reservoir on the new, light, strong, easy-to-operate trailers which are built to accommodate almost any kind of small boat and retail from $100 to $2,000.

In Lake Victoria, an isolated lake which formed recently in the African rift valley, over 300 species of cichlid fish adaptively radiated from one parent species in just 15, 000 years.

Lake Chad is the second largest lake in west Africa and is one of the most important wetlands on the continent.

The lake is the subject of local folklore ; a tradition at Wells College in Aurora holds that if the lake completely freezes over, classes are canceled ( though for only one day ).

Palden Lhamo, the female guardian spirit of the sacred lake, Lhamo La-tso, who promised Gendun Drup the 1st Dalai Lama in one of his visions that " she would protect the reincarnation lineage of the Dalai Lamas "

It is said that Palden Lhamo, the female guardian spirit of the sacred lake, Lhamo La-tso, promised Gendun Drup, the 1st Dalai Lama in one of his visions " that she would protect the reincarnation lineage of the Dalai Lamas.

Raymond Lindeman took these ideas one step further to suggest that the flow of energy through a lake was the primary driver of the ecosystem.

Kildall owned and flew his own Lear jet and had at least one boat on the lake.

She decided to stay in Geneva alone, living first on the lake at Plongeon ( near the present United Nations buildings ) and then at the Rue de Chanoines ( now the Rue de la Pelisserie ) with François and Juliet d ’ Albert Durade on the second floor (" one feels in a downy nest high up in a good old tree ").

The details of his expulsion are disputed: one story claims that he was expelled for throwing the headmaster ( alternatively, a groundskeeper ) into Rabbit Pond, a man-made lake on campus.

Some other popular sights are the Waterloo Column, the Laves House, the Wangenheim Palace, the Lower Saxony State Archives, the Hanover Playhouse, the Kröpcke Clock, the Anzeiger Tower Block, the Administration Building of the NORD / LB, the Cupola Hall of the Congress Centre, the Lower Saxony Stock, the Ministry of Finance, the Garten Church, the Luther Church, the Gehry Tower ( designed by the American architect Frank O. Gehry ), the specially designed Bus Stops, the Opera House, the Central Station, the Maschsee lake and the city forest Eilenriede, which is one of the largest of its kind in Europe.

For safety, one should never skate alone in the darkness and as a rule bring nails or ice-claws when one is skating on a lake or river.

From there he went north to Hangzhou, which he described as one of the largest cities he had ever seen, and he noted its charm, describing that the city sat on a beautiful lake and was surrounded by gentle green hills.

The result was to turn Kenilworth into one of the largest English castles of the time, with one of the largest artificial lake defences in England.

There is one seasonal lake, fed by springs, on the eastern slopes of the Lebanon Mountains near Yammunah, about southeast of Tripoli.

The town of Esch-sur-Sûre nestles at one end of the lake.

It is similar to other supposed lake monsters in Scotland and elsewhere, though its description varies from one account to the next.

A seiche is a large, regular oscillation of a lake, caused by a water reverting to its natural level after being blown to one end of the lake.

Among other fauna, the lake supports relatively few invertebrates: There are fifteen species of molluscs, including one endemic, and also an endemic freshwater sponge.

It has a surface area of, making it the largest lake entirely within one country by surface area ( Lake Baikal, in Russia, is larger by water volume ), and the fifth largest lake in the world.

It may be distant views of a valley or the mountains or natural features such as a small lake, colorful rock formations, or unusual trees.

By this time the small lake ( Lady Pool on old maps ) at the end of Ladypool Road had been filled-in to create a park.

In the 1940s and 1950s, the lake remained small, but it grew again to 26, 000 square kilometers in 1963.

But while in a small boat in a lake or bay in the mid 60s, he leaned over the side, and his notebook fell out of his breast pocket into the water, where it was lost forever.

There are three small islands within the lake.

The Dubhlinn was a small lake used to moor ships and was connected to the Liffey by the Poddle.

Within the city boundaries, in Dachau Süd ( South ), there is also a small lake called Stadtweiher.

On May 14, following the arrival of 100 men recruited by Arnold's captains, and the arrival of a schooner and some bateaux that had been taken at Skenesboro, Arnold and 50 of his men sailed north to raid Fort St. John, on the Richelieu River downstream from the lake, where a small British warship was reported by the prisoners to be anchored.

After two days without significant food ( which they had forgotten to provision in the boats ), Allen's small fleet met Arnold's on its way back to Ticonderoga near the foot of the lake.

The circuit uses everyday sections of road that circle Albert Park Lake, a small man-made lake just south of the Central Business District of Melbourne.

* Portage Lake County Park: a small park on Portage lake in the Waterloo State Recreation Area.

Eight of these are piscivorous and an important prey is the small Barbus tanapelagius, another endemic of the lake ( B. humilis and B. pleurogramma also occur in Lake Tana, but neither is endemic ).

French coureurs des bois and voyageurs established small ports and trading communities, such as Green Bay, on the lake during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

While the ports of Burlington, Vermont ; Port Henry, New York ; and Plattsburgh, New York are little used nowadays except by small craft, ferries and lake cruise ships, they had substantial commercial and military importance in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Following a small uproar, the Great Lake status was rescinded on March 24 ( although Vermont universities continue to receive funds to monitor and study the lake ).

Torrential rain in January 2007 took about six weeks to reach the lake but put only a small amount of water into it.

When recently flooded the lake is almost fresh and native fresh water fish, including bony bream ( Nematolosa erebi ), the Lake Eyre Basin sub-species of golden perch ( Macquaria ambigua ) and various small hardyhead species ( Craterocephalus spp.

Image: Volcanic_Island. jpg | A small, volcanic, tropical island inside the Nicaraguan lake Cocibolca ( or Lake Nicaragua ).

The largest of the craters measures 110 meters in diameter and contains a small lake ( known as Kaali järv ( Lake Kaali )).

There is anthropological evidence that the indigenous people living in the lake region of the Valley of Mexico traditionally ate tacos filled with small fish.