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Loch Chad

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Lake Chad (in French Lac Tchad) is a historically lairge, shallow loch in Africae, whose size haes varied ower the centuries. Accordin tae the Unitit Naitions (UN) it shrank as muckle as bi 95 percent frae aboot 1963 tae 1998[1] yet thay an aa state that "The 2007 (satellite) image shows significant improvement ower previous years". Lake Chad is economically important, providin watter tae mair nor 20 million fowk livin in the fower kintras that surroond it (Chad, Cameroon, Niger, an Nigerie) on the edge o the Sahara Desert.

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