  Toshka Lakes are lakes recently formed in the Sahara Desert of Egypt, by the
water of the Nile, conveyed from the Nasser Lake through a canal in the Toshka
Depression. From space, astronauts noticed the growing of a first lake, the
easternmost one, in 1998. Then additional lakes grew in succession due west,
the westernmost one between 2000 and 2001. In fact, sources of precious
information on Toshka Lakes are the pictures takes by the crews of space
missions and the satellite imagery. They show that, from 2006, the lakes
started shrinking. A set of recent images displays that the surface of the
easternmost lake is strongly reduced.
