Geocast on Instagram: "In the late 1990s, Egypt built the Toshka Spillway to divert excess water from Lake Nasser into the Western Desert. By 2001, the overflow filled natural basins, creating the Toshka Lakes — a vast new water body in the middle of the desert. But as Nile floods subsided and evaporation soared, the lakes shrank sharply through the 2000s and almost vanished by 2017. Then, following heavy Nile floods in 2019–2021, the Toshka Lakes began refilling, regaining much of their former

Daily Overview on Instagram: "Toshka Lakes is a group of recently formed endorheic lakes in the Sahara Desert of Egypt. They began to emerge in late 1998 when excess water from Lake Nasser overflowed, filling a nearby limestone valley. The rise and fall of the lakes over the past two decades has depended on fluctuations in the flow of the Nile River — in 2012 they had almost dried up, but began filling once again in 2019. Created by @dailyoverview Source imagery: Google Timelapse / @planetlabs"