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A network of high-frequency sensors is helping to protect
the future of freshwater lakes. Staff from ECN helped to develop the way the
data are managed and stored.
Lakes are vitally important to people, for example by
supplying freshwater and energy, helping in flood control and as places of
natural beauty in which we enjoy a range of recreational activities. Lakes also
provide a habitat for a diversity of freshwater species. However, they are
vulnerable to pollution from raw sewage, fertilizer run-off and atmospheric
deposition, and are also impacted by invasive, non-native species, water
abstraction and climate change.