catchments. We also discuss the future based on regional climate model projections. We attribute 27 the overall decline of BNNP lakes to long-term deficit of water balance with lake evaporation loss 28 exceeding precipitation inputs. Direct anthropogenic water abstraction has a minor importance in 29 water balance. However, the changes in watersheds caused by the expansion of human settlements 30 and roads disrupting water drainage may play a more significant role in lake water storage decline.
31More precise water resources assessment at the local scale will be facilitated by further development 32 of freely available higher spatial resolution remote sensing products. In addition, the results of this 33 work can be used for the development of lake/reservoir evaporation models driven by remote 34 sensing and atmospheric reanalysis data without the direct use of ground observations.
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