Turkey's Lake Iznik drying rapidly as water levels drop 350 meters

Lake Iznik, 1 of Turkey’s main freshwater sources, is drying quickly pinch h2o levels dropping by up to 350 meters.

Underwater reed beds are now visible, and erstwhile vessel motorboat areas person turned into stretches of barren mud.

Experts pass that mediocre h2o guidance and nan diversion of feeder streams for irrigation are worsening nan decline.

Aerial footage shows exposed piers and immense barren zones on nan shrinking shoreline.

Authorities had imposed restrictions connected cultivation irrigation from Lake Iznik during nan summertime season.