Usage examples (23)

• In 2007, tens of millions of people living around Poyang Lake suffered drinking water shortages.
• Conservation measures are in place at Poyang and some of the other large, shallow lakes, but enforcement is difficult.
• At the very least, it threatens to alter greatly the hydrological cycles fundamental to the ecology of lakes like Poyang and Dongting.
• Never shall I forget one glorious day when, accompanying two friends, we crossed to a far side of the range and looked down on the Poyang lake.