under the shadow of a nearly barren tree he speaks with mohammad abraham the head of the family. game tells no real oh he is a herder the family suffered a terrible ordeal before finally arriving in lake chad it was heat and lack of water that drove them from their home. in the. climate change has a huge impact on us herders if there's no rain no plants grow and without green plants to eat our animals die so we heard or seen are hit very hard by this. occupy from the chart the chaps. becoming onside and the genocide they all depended on this source you can tell us that this lake is unique it's just a freshwater we feel. so many livelihood dependent on this if. it to c.d.'s and. because we go to lake chad. we can hardly talk about living. in 1963 lake chad covered an area of 25000 square kilometers. by 2007 it was just 2500 square kilometers more than 90 percent smaller and the lake continues to shrink. if the lake were to completely dry up more than $15000000.00 people would probably become climate refugees and this figure does not take into account the rate of population growth.