Himanshi singh Nov 17, 2022
Located in Utah, America, the Great Salt Lake is known for its impressive statistic of being the largest saltwater lake in the entire Western Hemisphere.
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Just like many other lakes which are drying up, the issue with the Great Salt Lake is that the lack of outlets and the presence of 3 tributaries brings in a large number of minerals which have nowhere to go. .
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Often considered one of the worst environmental disasters, the Aral Sea is actually an entry on this list which is seemingly on the path to recovery.
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While the conversion of the desert to farmland was successful it immensely drained the Aral Sea. By the 1990s, this lake which was once responsible for 48,000 tons of fish production
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after such an environmental loss, the Kazakhastan Government and World Bank recently created an $86 million Syr Darya Control and Northern Aral Sea project which has constructed the Kokoral dam
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In terms of the environment, Lake Poopó is located within an endorheic basin which means no water is able to flow out.
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If you don’t already know about the Dead Sea, its name is not meant to scare people off but actually used due to the lack of any macroscopic aquatic organisms within the Lake.
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