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Lake Chad is in Africa. Lake Chad has a great economic importance as it provides water to many people including four surrounding countries.You can find more information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Chad
Lake Chad actually lies within 4 countries in West Africa, Cameron, Nigeria, Niger and Chad. Lake Chad is also known as the "disappearing lake" or "vanishing lake".
The equator does not pass through either Lake Chad or Lake Malawi. Thanks for doing the ChaCha!
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Lake Chad seems to go through a dry period every so often ( roughly every 3000 years) with the last one around 100 BC/BCE, but an increased demand on the lake's water from the local population has likely accelerated its shrinkage over the p...
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_happened_to_lake_chad
Once the fourth-largest African fresh water lake and the sixth largest lake in the world, however today it is at the verge of extinction and annihilation. Lake Chad provides water to more than 20 million people living in the four countries ...
http://www.helium.com/items/1707709-shrinking-of-lake-c...
Lakes are falling victim to human abuse and climate changes. Some of the world’s largest lakes are shrinking away; becoming ghosts of their former selves. Lake Chad was once the sixth largest lake in the world. However, over the course of a...
http://www.helium.com/items/1709270-human-nature-and-cl...
Global warming and extraction of water by humans are being blamed for Lake Chad shrinking to 20 per cent the size it once was, according to BBC News. The lake is used by Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria. "Just 40 years ago there was ...
http://africanhistory.about.com/b/2006/04/23/not-so-gre...
Out of Lake Chad, Malawi, and victoria Victoria is where the equator passes through.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Which+lake+does+the+equator+p...
Approx 2450 km at the nearest point. ie between Nguigmi on the NW of the lake and around Erfoud at the foot of the Atlas.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090501143...
Some 550 sq mi (1,425 sq km) in area in 2003, the shallow lake has been greatly reduced in size since the 1960s, when it varied seasonally from c.4,000 to c.10,000 sq mi (10,360-25,900 sq km) and was divided into north and south basins that...
http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/lake-chad-divide...
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