Secret Life of Lakes
Our planet’s lakes make up a huge freshwater reserve delicately balanced between the water that feeds them and the rivers they feed.
Overview
Our planet’s lakes make up a huge freshwater reserve delicately balanced between the water that feeds them and the rivers they feed.
Episodes
1. Baikal
In the heart of Siberia, a paradoxical lake defies the usual laws of such bodies of water. It is 25 million years old and getting deeper every day, covering a deep abyss in the Russian landscape. Those who live on its shores revere this exceptional lake, calling it “the Pearl of Siberia."
2. Tonle Sap
This lake and river system in Cambodia is unique in the world, and the people residing on its banks live a part aquatic and part terrestrial existence. Fishing, snake hunting and crocodile breeding are part of daily life for the Khmers on the banks of Tonlé Sap.
3. Lake Nasser
Lake Nasser is the result of the construction of the Aswan High Dam. The consequences, positive and negative, of the existence of this huge reservoir are equally spectacular. Though electricity reaches the smallest Egyptian villages – the Nile Delta, deprived of its silt, is gradually disappearing.
