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In the Las Vegas slider, the Lake Mead before/after difference is startling.


Aral Sea (https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/AralSea - notice the 1960 outline in pale yellow before starting the 2000-2018 playback) and Lake Chad i'd say even more startling.


The after photo is actually _up_ substantially from 2022.


you can also see a massive solar plant in red in the bottom right

(and maybe also wind - although why they would both be red is beyond me)


I'm more intrigued at the increased green of the landscape at large, did the water supply actually improve to encourage more plant growth?


The diminishing quantities of blue stuff got put on the brown stuff to turn it into green stuff.


By people, in case that isn’t clear.


May is much greener than July.


The photo from '99 was taken in May. The recent one was in July.


Other way 'round. That's why the after photo is so green, May is much greener than July.


this is because we siphon water from rivers, mostly for agriculture




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