Add 1.5 million lakes courtesty of HydroLAKES (licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License)

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+The HydroLAKES database provides a seamless high-resolution map of the world’s
+lakes and their main characteristics in support of a broad range of global-scale
+assessments and analyses, with a focus on improving users’ ability to model the
+important roles that lakes play in the global environment. The current version
+contains the polygons for 1.5 million individual lakes.
+
+HydroLAKES aims to be as comprehensive and consistent as possible at a global
+scale and contains both freshwater and saline lakes, including the Caspian Sea,
+as well as human-made reservoirs and regulated lakes. HydroLAKES achieves
+virtually full completion for lakes above 35 ha in area and close to full
+completion for lakes between 10 and 35 ha.
+
+HydroLAKES  is  publicly  available  for  download  at
+http://www.hydrosheds.org  and  is  free  for  scientific,  educational,  and
+other  uses.  The  data  is  licensed  under  a  Creative  Commons  Attribution
+4.0 International License (see section 4). By downloading and using the data
+the user agrees to the terms and conditions of this license. The copyright
+© of HydroLAKES is held by the authors, 2016, all rights reserved.
+
+Citations and acknowledgements of the HydroLAKES database should be made as
+follows:
+
+Messager, M.L., Lehner, B., Grill, G., Nedeva, I., Schmitt, O. (2016):
+Estimating the volume and age of water stored in global lakes using a
+geo-statistical approach.
+Nature Communications: 13603. doi: 10.1038/ncomms13603.
+Data is available at www.hydrosheds.org