In her new e book, Entropy, photographer Diane Tuft explores the harm {that a} hotter local weather may have on our bodies of water.

The Nice Salt Lake in Utah (pictured above) is a stark instance. Right here, local weather change has ramped up temperatures, whereas calls for for contemporary water from trade and agriculture have lowered the flowing of mountain streams to a trickle, shrinking the lake to two-thirds the quantity of what it was in 2000. The color cut up, captured by Tuft from a helicopter, is a results of in a different way pigmented algae that both dwell in excessive salinity (pink) or decrease salinity (blue) water, bisected by a railroad causeway.

The second picture, proven above, reveals what was as soon as a rice subject in Kutubdia Island, Bangladesh, remodeled right into a subject of salt. It is a nation at peril from altering waters – projections recommend 17 per cent of it could be submerged by sea by 2050, with the saltwater making a lot of the land unsuitable for crops.

With one having too little water and the opposite an excessive amount of, “each areas completely illustrate issues on the reverse ends of the spectrum”, says Tuft.

Photographer Diane Tuft
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