Asia is no exception to the global trend of lake ecosystems, which provide drinking water to millions of people, being degraded  and severely threatened at the same time by climate change . Lake surface conditions, such as ice cover, surface temperature, evaporation and water level react dramatically to this threat, and there are negative implications for water quantity and quality, food provisioning, recreational opportunities and transportation . Due to substantial regional variability, the quantum of future changes in lake water storage remains uncertain. A recent study  using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer 500-m spatial resolution global water product data, and applying the least squares method to analyse changes in the area of 14 lakes in Central Asia from 2001 to 2016, has shown that the area-shrinkage changes for all plains lakes in the study region could be attributed to climate change and human activities.
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