Drought helped dry up a lake in Chile. Will it happen to the Great Salt Lake?
At its height, Lake Aculeo — 5,810 miles from the Great Salt Lake and in South America’s Chile — attracted people from nearby Santiago and the surrounding area to enjoy sailing, boating and swimming in its fresh waters that occupied a surface area four times the size of New York City’s Central Park. All that is gone. In fact, like the Great Salt Lake’s surface that has been reduced by more than half and its volume diminished by 64% as of 2019, Lake Aculeo began to shrink during a drought. In May 2018, Lake Aculeo dried up completely.
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