Affected lakes include Lake Songor in Ghana, Lake Nakuru in Kenya, Lake Chad, Lake Victoria (Africa's largest freshwater lake) and many others.

Lake Chad, after which the country is named, is the largest wetland in Chad and the second largest in Africa.

Nile Basin Initiative Safe Navigation of Lake Tanganyika Malawi Transfer of Oubangui waters to augment Lake Chad through River Chari

He built a fortified capital at Ngazargamu (in present day Nigeria), to the west of Lake Chad.

The Kanuri were forced back into their nomadic ways and migrated west of Lake Chad, eventually establishing a new empire in Bornu.

In the 1960s, a plan was proposed to divert waters from the Ubangi to the Chari River which empties into Lake Chad.

Similarly, the Sanusiyya, a brotherhood founded in Libya in the mid nineteenth century, enjoyed substantial economic and political influence in the Lake Chad Basin around 1900.

Baga and at least 16 other towns are thought to have been destroyed as over 35,000 people are reported to have been displaced, with many feared to have drowned while trying to cross Lake Chad and others trapped on islands in the lake.

Lakes Lake Eem (Eemmeer) Lake Gooi (Gooimeer) Lake Grevelingen (Grevelingenmeer) Lake IJssel (IJsselmeer), includes Lake Marken (Markermeer) Lake Ketel (Ketelmeer) Lauwers Lake (Lauwersmeer) Lake of Naarden (Naardermeer) Lake of Sloten (Slotermeer) Lake of Veere (Veersemeer) Lake Veluwe (Veluwemeer) Zuidladermeer References

As the dramatic shrinkage of the Aral Sea, Lake Chad, and the Dead Sea illustrate, it now requires preserving scarce natural resources and ensuring their equitable distribution among conflicting needs.

Chad

In 1994, the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) proposed a similar project and at a March 2008 summit, the heads of state of the LCBC member countries committed to the diversion project.

Chad ( ' ), officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in Central Africa.

GIWA has also provided significant input to intergovernmental processes such as the fifty first ministerial meeting of the Lake Chad Basin Commission in 2004 and the Small Island Developing States ministerial conference in January 2005.

Lake Tanganyika is an African Great Lake.

The lake is the fifth largest in Europe after Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega in Russia north of St. Petersburg, Lake Vänern in Sweden, and Lake Saimaa in Finland.

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Lake Villa, Illinois Village of Lake Villa, Illinois, 2001.

In Japan, there is no lake bigger than Lake Biwa.

Chadian Prime Minister Kalzeubet Pahimi Deubet said that at least 2,500 Nigerians and 500 Chadians had sought refuge in the neighbouring country following the attacks, some of whom were trying to cross Lake Chad in flimsy and overloaded canoes.

The Victoria Nile drains from Lake Victoria into Lake Kyoga and thence into Lake Albert on the Congolese border.

It has an area of , making it the third largest lake in Italy, after Lake Garda and Lake Maggiore.

Lady Lake is a town in Lake County, Florida, United States.

Once it is completed, we would expect the deployment of civilian observers for a 12 month period in order to consolidate the withdrawal and transfer of authority, as was the case earlier in the Lake Chad and the land boundary areas.

On the basis of maximum depth, Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States, the second deepest in North America (after Great Slave Lake in Canada), and the ninth deepest lake in the world (Lake Baikal is the deepest).

Round Lake Beach is a village in Lake County, Illinois, United States.

Lake Forest is a city located in Lake County, Illinois, United States.

Round Lake Park is a village in Lake County, Illinois, United States.

With a surface area of , Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake by area, and is also the largest tropical lake in the world.

Lake Taupo is a lake situated in the North Island of New Zealand.

The town of Howard Lake sits on the south shore of Howard Lake.

Red Lake Falls is a city in Red Lake County, Minnesota, United States.

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In eastern North America, many orchards are along the shores of Lake Michigan (such as the Fruit Ridge Region), Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario.

Fountain Lake and Albert Lea Lake are part of the Shell Rock River flowage.

GIWA outputs have already been used by some GEF projects as a basis for the development of new projects and activities such as those recently undertaken by the Lake Chad Basin Commission and the Pan African System for Analysis, Research and Training (START) secretariat.

Vänern is the third largest in Europe, after Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega in Russia.

Okanagan Lake is a large, deep lake in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, Canada.

Lake Pihkva Pskovskoe (, ) is the southern part of the lake (area 708 km2 or 20 ).

Varese Lake () is a lake of glacial origin in Lombardy, in the north of Italy.

Soap Lake is a city in Grant County, Washington, on the shores of Soap Lake.

Cedar Lake is a town in Hanover and Center townships, Lake County, Indiana, United States.

The lake was frozen.

Island Lake is a village in Lake and McHenry counties in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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