Tourists flocking to the popular northern lake are finding a landscape that is vastly different to what they expected. 9News
Italy's worst drought in decades has reduced Lake Garda, the country's largest lake, to near its lowest level ever recorded, exposing swaths of previously underwater rocks and warming the water to temperatures that approach the average in the Caribbean Sea.
This photo is an aerial view of the peninsula of Sirmione on Garda lake, the white patches showing the area where the water has receded.An expansive stretch of bleached rock extended far from the normal shoreline, ringing the southern Sirmione Peninsula with a yellow halo between the green hues of the water and the trees on the shore.
"We found the landscape had changed a lot. We were a bit shocked when we arrived because we had our usual walk around, and the water wasn't there." To compensate, authorities allowed more water from Lake Garda to flow out to local rivers — 70 cubic metres of water per second. But in late July, they reduced the amount to protect the lake and the financially important tourism tied to it.With 45 cubic metres of water per second being diverted to rivers, Lake Garda on August 12 was 32 centimetres above the water table, near the record lows in 2003 and 2007.
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