The fire brigade refused to go into a shallow lake to rescue a human being - and sent for back-up instead.

During our wilderness sabbatical, we went camping by a shallow lake.

They like this kind of shallow lake, since they are what are usually called surface-feeding duck, like mallards and wigeon, not diving duck such as pochards and tufted ducks.

A vast network of plastic pipes absorbs heat from the water in the shallow lake.

Before that it formed a seasonal shallow lake or swamp.