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Maharashtra’s green Lonar lake turns pink, salinity and algae could be the reason

Firstpost | 11/06/2020 05:32 PM | Click to read full article

The lake, which is a notified national geo-heritage monument, has saline water with pH of 10.5.

"There are algae in the water body. The salinity and algae can be responsible for this change.  There is no oxygen below one meter of the lake's water surface. There is an example of a lake in Iran, where water becomes reddish due to increase in salinity," said an expert.

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