Does Lake PooPo In Bolivia Predict The Future Of Climate Change? Details Released!

The second largest Lake of Bolivia- Lake Poopo has been officially announced evaporated last month.

With this incident, it has been reported that around hundreds of people have lost their livelihoods and left the place. And Officials have declared that a recovery of this dried up lake is not likely to happen in the future.

What was once Bolivia's second-largest lake is now witnessed with abandoned fishing nets and with the barren land of beetles hogging on bird carcasses and gulls fighting for scraps under a scorching sun.

"This is a picture of the future of climate change," says Dirk Hoffman, a glaciologist from Germany who researches on how increase in temperature due to the burning of fossil fuels has accelerated melting of glaciers in Bolivia, Cited Huffington Post.

This sudden demise of the second-largest water body of Bolivia could indicate the future of climate change. This drought condition could also be caused mainly as an effect of El Nino phenomenon.It is also believed that water mismanagement could have also been a culprit. Poopo has shrunk many times in the past, but this time, it has totally disappeared!

While the lake suffered El-Nino droughts, its weak ecosystem has underwent unprecedented stress over the past 30 years. The 12,000 feet high lake used to get most of its water from the Desanguadero river of Lake Titicaca. The lake has warmed over the past century and the officials haven't been opening control gates from Lake Titicaca. And moreover, some of the water was diverted for mining and agriculture.

"The lake was very shallow, only a few feet deep, and it is in an arid climate, so its level fluctuates a lot with the weather," said Lisa Borre- a senior researcher with Cary institute for ecosystem studies, New York, "The Bolivian government is blaming El Niño and climate change, and certainly those played a role, but they are not saying that they have also failed to implement the management plan for the basin,", Cited National Geographic.

According to another study, a prediction on catastrophic drought was revealed. It was also said that such inhospitable climates would lower the availability of water and food for the inhabitants of the country's highlands. Another prediction was that Irreversible changes in ecosystem could cause massive emigration.

Lake Poopo of Bolivia might not be alone in this, lots of other lakes worldwide are under a similar threat too!