According to BBC, Loch Ness is being affected by the extreme heat prevailing in it’s region and its water level has dropped to a record low of over 30 years. In recent days, the temperature around the lake has reached up to 30 degrees, and there has been a significant decrease in the rainwater. The importance of the lake to the region is related both to the drinking water supply and to the power plant that uses the lake’s water to generate electricity.
Along with these concerns, there are those who believe that the drastic drop in the water level may lead to the solution of the ancient mystery about the monster in the lake. Some accounts of the Loch Ness Monster, which was nicknamed Nessie, date to over 1,500 years ago, and the legend has turned the lake into a tourist attraction. With the invention of the camera, photographs and even videos of the monster began to appear, which sparked interest around it even after they were discovered to be fake.

In recent years there have been several studies around the lake with the aim of solving the mystery once and for all. In one of the studies, a sonar module was inserted into the lake, which found no evidence of a large body in the water, and another study proved that the existence of the monster is not possible due to a lack of food in the local ecosystem. A delegation of researchers that examined the lake for over a year even claimed that the monster is just a giant eel due to DNA in the water.
Whether the dropping water levels will bring any new evidence or changes of opinion remains to be seen.