GK
INDIAN GEOGRAPHY
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Dal
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Chilika
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Wular
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Sambhar
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sambhar lake in India has the highest Water salinity. Sambhar Salt Lake of Rajasthan is largest inland salt lake of India and an extensive saline wetland.
Detailed explanation-2: -Lake Van of Turkey has the highest salinity in the world at 330%o. Next is the Dead Sea, Israel (240%o) and the Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA (220%o).
Detailed explanation-3: -Salinity in both lakes fluctuated from almost fresh water (1.80‰), to hypersaline (300‰) and acted as the main controlling factor for almost all the biotic parameters.
Detailed explanation-4: -It is a land whose geography changed its history. Centuries ago, the Mughal emperor Babar noticed how the rainwater flowing into the Sambhar lake in Rajasthan turned brackish after the capillary action caused by evaporation pulled up salt from underground deposits.