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.

Pleasure boating is just scooting into its best months in California as crisp breezes bring out craft of every size on every kind of water -- ocean, lake and reservoir.

Newest small-boat playground is the Salton Sea, a once-dry desert sinkhole which is now a salty lake 42 miles long and 235 feet below sea level.

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.

Turkey's largest lake, Lake Van, is situated in the mountains at an elevation of.

Lake Sevan, across at its widest point and long, is by far the largest lake.

Engineers estimated that once the project is finished, the tunnel will allow 500 million cubic meters of water to be drawn from the lake annually, while maintaining a constant water level.

landlocked in the Lesser Caucasus Mountains ; Sevana Lich ( Lake Sevan ) is the largest lake in this mountain range

On flowing out of the lake it passes through Thun, and then flows through the city of Bern, passing beneath eighteen bridges and around the steeply-flanked peninsula on which the Old City is located.

Farther north the western depression, known as the Albertine Rift is occupied for more than half its length by water, forming the Great Lakes of Tanganyika, Kivu, Lake Edward and Lake Albert, the first-named over 400 miles ( 600 km ) long and the longest freshwater lake in the world.

* Champ is the name given to a reputed lake monster living in Lake Champlain, a natural freshwater lake in North America, partially situated across the U. S .- Canada border in the Canadian province of Quebec and partially situated across the Vermont-New York border.

To the north of the city is a large artificial lake, called Anasagar with a marble structure known as Baradari.

By the lake is the Daulat Bāgh, a garden laid out by Emperor Jahāngīr.

Lake Foy Sagar is situated in the outskirts of the city, it is a picturesque artificial lake that was created as a famine relief project in 1892.

However, the extent to which acid rain contributes directly or indirectly via runoff from the catchment to lake and river acidity ( i. e., depending on characteristics of the surrounding watershed ) is variable.

When this hydrological link is not present, the Black Sea is a lake, operating independent of the global ocean system.

Lake Tanganyika is used for transport, with the major port on the lake being Bujumbura.

However, she is unable to harm Beowulf through his armour and drags him to the bottom of the lake.

The path continues to ascend, and the side of the ravine, on which it runs, becomes steeper, until a cave is reached above which the mountain now rises almost perpendicularly ; while on the right, it strikes in a rapid descent down to where, in St Benedict's day, below, lay the blue waters of the lake.

Stolpe found very large amounts of amber on the island, which is unusual since amber is not normally found in lake Mälaren.

The region was subject to various princes, most notably the princes of Savoy from the south side of the lake.

Historically, the territories around lake Baikal belonged to Khalkha and the local people, Buryats were subject to Khalkha Tusheet Khan and Setsen Khan.

The nominal subject of Mallarmé's " Le cygne " (" The Swan ") is of a swan trapped in a frozen lake.

The lake is the subject of a number of urban legends, mainly rooted in the area's rich Native American heritage.

The previously established Canadian LWCB was to regulate the lake on an on-going basis, but its decisions were to be subject to approval by an International Lake of the Woods Control Board ( ILWCB ) whenever lake levels rose above or fell below certain limits.

As the lake and its shores became progressively incorporated into the Duchy of Milan they became the subject of political and territorial contention during the 15th century, and Lugano became the lake's main town.

However, these areas were overpopulated and un-hygenic because of the low, muddy condition of the lands here next to the lake, constantly subject to flooding.

Trigorin sees the seagull that Konstantin has shot and muses on how he could use it as a subject for a short story: " A young girl lives all her life on the shore of a lake.

However, the largely unregulated use of lake water for irrigation is reducing the level of the lake and is the subject of concern in Kenya.

The lake was subject to regular draining in an effort to control the weed and to flush out the old water.

If the cirque is subject to seasonal melting, the floor of the cirque most often forms a tarn ( small lake ) behind the moraine, glacial till or bedrock lip marking the downstream limit of glacial overdeepening of the basin, which serves as a dam at the outlet.

The lake is downstream from the Trail Smelter, and has been the subject of litigation over environmental concerns.

The only island on the lake, Mary Island, is the focus of several local myths, including one that the island is subject to a Māori curse.

This has caused difficulties such as mouth getting silted up and getting closed during the summer season ( June – July to Oct – Nov ); raise in flood level occurs during the rainy season ; the lake acts as a large evaporating basin when the bar is closed resulting in salinity levels remaining low or high subject to the flood discharge into the lake during the northeast monsoon ; fluctuation of water level in the lake ( above or below the sea level ) is affecting flora, fauna and fisheries ; siltation has caused variation of the lake mouth resulting in reduction of tidal inflows and consequent decline in stocking of commercially important species of prawns and mullets.

The subject of the painting is a small lake called Carmichael Lake in the La Cloche Mountains of Killarney Provincial Park near Sudbury, Ont.

The upper stratifications of the lake most certainly supported a variety of organisms, but the bottom was subject to little disturbance by current, spawning a very anoxic environment.

The lake and the life on its shores have inspired many artists and writers. It has been the subject of many poems of renowned poet Thirunalloor Karunakaran who was born and brought up on its banks.

In recent years the lake has become the subject of national attention due to allegations of a lake monster, presumed to be a freshwater octopus.

By this point Kenilworth Castle consisted of the great keep, the inner bailey wall, a basic causeway across the smaller lake that preceded the creation of the Great Mere, and the local chase for hunting.

Some recent articles appeared during the Champlain Quadricentennial ( 2009 ) claiming Ondakina as the “ local ” native name for the lake, but none cites a verifiable source.

" Services are also provided by local and state governments bordering on the lake, including Vermont State Police, New York State Police Marine Detail, and Vermont Fish and Wildlife wardens.

Pelso derives from a local name for the lake, perhaps from the Illyrian language, as the Illyrians once populated the region.

Heavy rain in early March filled the southern end of the lake, with the north of the usually dry salt pan about 75 per cent covered with water continuing to inflow from local creeks.

To escape from the ill-treatment ( including the Portuguese physically pounding to death live infants in wooden mortars to extract local allegiance ), the Lomwe headed north and entered Malawi through the southern tip of lake Chilwa ; settling in Phalombe and Mulanje areas.

The lake is also home to a robust population of " Sawbellies ", the local term for Gizzard shad.

The oldest iron items were imported, although since the 1st century iron was smelted from local marsh and lake ore. Settlement sites were located mostly in places that offered natural protection.

The lake serves also as a source for fish for the local fishermen.

While the lake was well known by local Native Americans, it entered the annals of written history through the records of Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, who learned of its existence from the Timpanogos Utes in 1776.

Minerals extracted from the lake include: sodium chloride ( common salt ), used in water softeners, salt lick blocks for livestock, and to melt ice on local roadways ; potassium sulfate ( potash ), used as a commercial fertilizer ; and magnesium-chloride brine, used in the production of magnesium metal, chlorine gas, and as a dust suppressant.

Regional authorities are primarily responsible for environmental management, including water, contaminant discharge and coastal management, river and lake management including flood and drainage control, regional land management ; regional transport ( including public transport ) and harbours, biosecurity or pest management ; while territorial authorities are responsible for: local-level land use management ( urban and rural planning ); network utility services such as water, sewerage, stormwater and solid waste management ; local roads ; libraries ; parks and reserves ; and community development.

The name Chad is a local word meaning " large expanse of water ", in other words, a " lake ".

This happens in December where thousands of lights are floated on the lake to commemorate loved ones in the local community who have been lost to cancer.

The many historical and spiritual sites around the lake, especially its main town Tiberias, are visited by millions of local and foreign tourists annually.

The area outside of Attica including Boeotia was called by some ancient sources Graïke, the region where is mentioned the first worldwide flood in Greek mythology, the deluge of Ogyges. The Ogygian deluge, occurred during his reign and derives its name from him, though some sources regard it as a local flood, such as an inundation of Lake Copais, a large lake once in the center of Boeotia.

If this is the case, it would make Gargarei virtually equivalent to the Georgian term Dzurdzuk ( referring to the lake Durdukka in the South Caucasus, where they are thought to have migrated from, as noted by Strabo, before intermixing with the local population ) which applied to a Nakh people who migrated North across the mountains to settle in modern Ingushetia.

The alteration of the native ecosystem has also had disruptive socioeconomic effects on local communities bordering the lake.

In the local Quechua language tiqsi means foundation or base, huira ( or wira ) means fat, and cocha ( or qucha ) means lake, sea, or reservoir.

The lake provides essential irrigation to local farms, and serves as a recreation destination for the region.

The town was developed in the 1950s and established in 1958 primarily by M. Penn Phillips and the Holly Sugar Corporation as a resort community on the Salton Sea, a saline, endorheic rift lake located directly on the San Andreas Fault, yet very little development was achieved due to its isolation and lack of local employment opportunities.

Several well-known people live here, including Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corporation, who spent nine years building an architecturally authentic, $ 200 + million Japanese feudal castle and man-made lake in Woodside ; Gordon E. Moore, co-founder of Intel and originator of Moore's Law ; John Thompson, CEO of Symantec ; Neil Young, rock musician and songwriter, who owns a ranch and recording studio there ; Michelle Pfeiffer, actress, and her husband David E. Kelley, producer ; Thomas Siebel, founder of Siebel Systems ; Scott Cook, co-founder of Intuit, Inc .; John Doerr, venture capitalist ; Dr. Carl Djerassi, novelist and member of team that developed the birth control pill ; Kenneth Fisher, founder of Fisher Investments, Forbes columnist, author, and local historian ; Susan Dawson, philanthropist ; and Joan Baez, folk singer.