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	Lake Balkhash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lake Balkhash (Kazakh: Balqash Köli) is a large lake in southeastern Kazakhstan, the second largest in Central Asia after the Aral Sea.
		From the 8th century the land to the south of the lake, between it and the Tian Shan mountains, was known as "Seven Rivers" (Jetisu in Turkic, Semireche in Russian).
		The waters of the Ili River and of Lake Balkhash are of vital economic importance to Kazakhstan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lake_Balkhash (581 words)

	Salt lake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A salt lake or saline lake is a landlocked body of water which has a concentration of salts (mostly sodium chloride) and other minerals significantly higher than most lakes (often defined as at least 3,000 milligrams of salt per liter).
		Salt lakes form when the water flowing into the lake, containing salt or minerals, cannot leave because the lake is endorheic or terminal.
		The salt lake with the highest elevation is Namtso, and the one with the lowest elevation is the Dead Sea, which is also the lowest exposed point on the Earth's surface.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Salt_lake (257 words)

	Image:Balkhash.jpg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lake Balkhash extends from the Betpak Steppe in the west to the Kazakh Hills in the northeast.
		Visible in the photograph to the north of the lake is a vast undulating plain, and south-southeast of the lake are the Ili River and its delta.
		Lake Balkhash has no river outlet and, even with the influx of fresh water from the Ili River, is shrinking because of evaporation; however, its rate of shrinkage is much less than that of the Aral Sea, which juts into Kazakhstan much farther to the west.
	nba.servegame.org /en/Image:Balkhash.jpg.htm (487 words)

	Lake Balkhash
		North of Lake Balkhash are the southern semi-arid Kazakh Uplands, and south, the Saryesik-Atryan Desert.
		Three major streams feed Lake Balkhash, all from the south or southeast: the Ili River, with a large delta, the Karatal River, with a smaller delta, and the Aqsu River.
		The gradual degradation of the lake ecosystems is being hastened by the construction of hydroelectric installations in China to the southeast.
	www.grid.unep.ch /activities/sustainable/balkhash/index.php (909 words)

	Lake Balkhash
		To the north of Lake Balkhash are the southern portions of the semi-arid Kazakh Uplands.
		To the south of Lake Balkhash is the Saryesik-Atryan Desert, mostly a sand desert.
		Lake Balkhash is usually frozen from November through March; however, even in April ice still covers almost the entire surface of the lake.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/world/russia/balkhash.htm (421 words)

	Lake Balkhash
		Lake Balkash (sometimes written as Lake Balqash) is a large lake in southeastern Kazakhstan, the second largest in Central Asia after the Aral Sea.
		The western half of the lake is fresh water, while the eastern half is salt water.
		The waters of the Ili and of Lake Balkash are of vital economic importance to Kazakhstan.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/l/la/lake_balkhash.html (312 words)

	FISH AND FISHERIES AT HIGHER ALTITUDES: ASIA - TECHNICAL PAPER NO. 385
		Lake Balkhash itself is a low-altitude water body, with a mix of coldwater and temperate water fish stocks.
		Lake Balkhash and the Alakol lakes, the latter situated north of Dzhungarskiy Alatau and east of Lake Balkhash, represent isolated drainages.
		In Lake Balkhash the ichthyofauna had no contact with the neighbouring faunas of the River Ob basin in the north and with the Ponto-Caspian basin in the west and south.
	www.fao.org /docrep/003/x2614e/x2614e09.htm (7199 words)

	RedOrbit - Science - Kazakhstan: China's Draining of Kazakh Lake Imperils Region
		BALKHASH, Nov. 6, 2006 (IPS/GIN) -- Lake Balkhash, one of the largest inland bodies of water on Earth, is in danger of turning into an environmental death zone whose impact would be felt throughout Central Asia.
		Lake Balkhash in south-eastern Kazakhstan is the 15th largest lake in the world and the second largest in Central Asia.
		The average depth of the lake, fresh in the west and salt in the east, is 5.8 m, but its maximum depth reaches 25.6 m.
	www.redorbit.com /news/science/720960/kazakhstan_chinas_draining_of_kazakh_lake_imperils_region/index.html?source=r_science (886 words)

	Lake Balkhash Summary
		Lake Balkash is a large lake located in southeast Kazakhstan at 342 meters (1,122 feet) above sea level and covering an area of 17,275 square kilometers (6,670 square miles).
		The water in the western part of the lake is fresh and suitable for consumption, agriculture, and industry, while the water in the eastern part is salty.
		The Balkhash inland basin drains into Lake Balkhash via seven rivers; chief among these is the Ili River, which brings the majority of the riparian inflow.
	www.bookrags.com /Lake_Balkhash (703 words)

	Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Photographic Highlights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The long (600 km) arc of Lake Balkhash occupies the center of this clear WNW view of the southern Kazakh Uplands, Kazakhstan and westernmost Dzungarian Basin in the autonomous region of Xinjiang Uygur, China.
		Lake Ebinur is the bright area beneath the dust plume (left center); north winds funneled through the Dzungarian Gate have picked up sediment from dry lakebeds at the north end.
		Because the lake's main tributaries enter from the south, the water level of the southern section is several inches higher than that of the northern part.
	eol.jsc.nasa.gov /debrief/STS085/top1.htm (946 words)

	Lake Balkhash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lake Balkhash, or Lake Balqash, is a large lake in southeastern Kazakhstan, the second largest in Central Asia after the Aral Sea.
		The waters of the Ili and of Lake Balkhash are of vital economic importance to Kazakhstan.
		Extinctions of species in the lake due its decreasing area, as well as overfishing activities, are cause for alarm among conservation organisations worldwide.
	www.punweb.com /article/Lake_Balkhash (406 words)

	Balkhash, Lake
		Lake in eastern Kazakhstan, the eastern half of which is salty, and the western half fresh; area 17,400 sq km/6,715 sq mi.
		Lake Balkhash is 600 km/375 mi long and is fed by several rivers, including the Karatal, Lepsy, and Ili, but has no outlet.
		The lake is frozen throughout the winter (November–mid-April); it has become increasingly saline and polluted through industrial activity, especially copper mining and smelting.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0000308.html (255 words)

	LakeNet - Lakes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lake Balkhash lies in one of the most arid watersheds in the world.
		Lake Balkhash, although slightly less saline than the conventional limit, is usually considered a saline lake.
		Since the early 1900's, Lake Balkhash fish stocks have been intensively manipulated by the transfer of additioanl fish species from elsewhere in what was previously the Soviet Union.
	www.worldlakes.org /lakedetails.asp?lakeid=8416 (229 words)

	Lake Balkhash
		This river combines the grey of Balkhash due his age and blue of the couple because of their youth.
		Lake Balkhash is the largest lake in southeastern Kazakhstan.
		The phenomenon of Balkhash consists in its different mineralization of western and east parts, which are connected by narrow passage.
	www.rit.edu /~dxz3817/imm2/project2/balkhash.html (302 words)

	GEO_PLATE_KL-14.HTML (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lake Baikal lies in the southern part of eastern Siberia, U.S.S.R. It is the deepest continental body of water on Earth, having a maximum depth of 1741 m.
		Lake Tanganyika (Figure KL-14.3), in the western arm of the African Rift, is in some respects an analog to Lake Baikal.
		Lake Balkhash occupies a shallow structural trough (graben?) backfilled with sediments carried in by the Ili River from the high Tian Shan along the Russian border.
	daac.gsfc.nasa.gov /geomorphology/GEO_7/GEO_PLATE_KL-14.HTML (730 words)

	Central Kazakhstan :: About Kazakhstan regions. Pictures of Kazakhstan
		Lake Balkhash, one of the largest lakes in the world, and a unique Kargalinsky woody-mountain oasis are situated in Central Kazakhstan (Karagandinskaya oblast).
		Balkhash Lake is the largest mouthless pond after the Caspian and Aral seas.
		The phenomena of Balkhash Lake is the different mineralisation of its western and eastern parts, connected by a narrow gulf.
	www.kazakhstan.orexca.com /central_kazakhstan.shtml (717 words)

	ENVIRONMENT-KAZAKHSTAN: Planned Nuke Plant Generates Worries
		But members of the Movement for the Revival of the Balkhash Region, a non-governmental organisation based in Balkhash, are confident that the plant will be built on the site of an unfinished thermal power station near the lake.
		Shishov, one of the few vocal supporters of the nuclear plant project on Lake Balkhash, says that technical progress -- in the form of new energy through nuclear power -- cannot be stopped.
		Lake Balkhash, the 15th largest lake in the world, is the second largest in Central Asia.
	www.ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=35371 (992 words)

	BREITBART.COM - Kazakhs fear 'death sentence' for another giant lake
		Lake Balkhash, Central Asia's second largest lake, could meet the same fate as the devastated Aral Sea as heavy metals seep into its once pristine waters and nearby China diverts more and more water, environmentalists warn.
		In the town of Balkhash, 500 kilometres (310 miles) west of the Chinese border on the shores of the lake, environmental damage is already evident.
		The factory's waste is buried within 300 meters (1,000 feet) of the shore of Lake Balkhash, allowing it to seep down and pollute the water.
	www.breitbart.com /?id=061015201735.ztxtjjwx&show_article=1&cat=sci (743 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Kazakh 'national treasure' under threat
		The lake, the fourth largest in Central Asia, situated about seven hours north-west of Kazakhstan's main city, Almaty, is the lifeblood of this arid region.
		A local couple, walking home from the lakeside with their young daughter, said the level of the lake had fallen dramatically in the last few decades.
		The lake's main source is the River Ili, already depleted by a reservoir created upstream and heavy agricultural use.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/4286916.stm (800 words)

	Lake Balkhash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lake Balkash in southeastern Kazakhstan is the second largest lake in Central Asia after the Aral Sea.
		The western half of the lake is fresh water while the eastern half is salt The lake is fed by the Ili but has no outlet.
		The lake and its tributary rivers used for irrigation municipal and industrial water supply and
	www.freeglossary.com /Lake_Balqash (476 words)

	Eastern Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
		Lake Issky-Kol's dark waters are due to the fact that - with a maximum depth of 668 metres - it is deeper than many other Central Asian lakes, notably the elongated crescent-shaped Lake Balkhash to the north in Kazakhstan, up in the north towards the western edge of the image.
		Lake Balkhash has a total area of 16 996 square kilometres in total but a maximum depth of only 25.6 metres and a mean depth of only six metres on its western side, and ten metres on its eastern side.
		Southeast of these lakes lies the Dzungarian Gate, significant historically as a pass through the mountains for invasion forces from Central Asia and today part of the Silk Road railway between Turkey and China.
	earth.esa.int /cgi-bin/satimgsql.pl?pf=38 (644 words)

	Lake_Balkhash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Marina Kozlova Asia Water Wire BALKHASH Nov Lake Balkhash one of the largest inland bodies of water on Earth is in danger of Balkhash Marinka.
		B. T he closed Lake Balkhash is situated in a land BALKHASH Kazakhstan Nov Lake Balkhash one of the largest inland bodies of water on Earth is in danger of turning into an environmental death zone whose impact would be felt LAKE BALKHASH A view on the lake.
		BALKHASH, Kazakhstan, Nov 3 (Asia Water Wire) - Lake Balkhash, one of the largest inland bodies of water on Earth, is in danger of turning into an environmental death zone whose impact would be felt...
	www.gamesfun.info /index_rdf/index_rdf/Kazakhstan/Lake_Balkhash (417 words)

	Lake Balaton
		The condition of Lake Balaton, also known as the 'Sea of Hungary', is a high-priority issue for Hungarians, the Government of Hungary and the millions of foreign tourists visiting its unique habitat, shorelines and upland protected areas.
		Lake Balaton's uniquely vulnerable situation is the combined result mainly of its very shallow profile, and the fact that through heavy reliance on tourism as a primary source of livelihoods, the socio-economic consequences of ecological deterioration can be severe and immediate.
		The overall purpose of the project is to contribute to a better understanding of Lake Balaton’s ecological and socio-economic system vulnerability and resilience arising from multiple forces of global and local change, including land use, demographic, economic and climate change, and build capacity for more effective policy-making and adaptation measures in response.
	www.grid.unep.ch /activities/sustainable/balaton/index.php (372 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Kazakh lake 'could dry up'
		The UN has warned that Lake Balkhash, the second largest lake in Central Asia after the Aral Sea, could dry up, creating another major environmental crisis in the region.
		Forty times the size of Lake Geneva, Balkhash lies in eastern Kazakhstan, 400 kilometres (250 miles) north of the commercial city of Almaty.
		The Aral Sea, once the world's fourth largest lake, has now turned into two separate water reservoirs surrounded by vast wastelands, as a result of Soviet policy to divert its two feeder rivers for cotton irrigation.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/asia-pacific/3397077.stm (490 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Environmentalists say China misusing cross-border rivers
		It is one of Balkhash's three main sources that provide 80 percent of the lake's water.
		Balkhash is the 16th largest inland lake in the world and the second largest in Central Asia.
		Eleusizov says that because of China's overuse of the two rivers, Lake Balkhash may have a fate similar to that of the Aral Sea - which has been turned into a deadly desert and caused an ecological catastrophe.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=16407 (1024 words)

	КУБ - Michael Steen: Aral dead, Balkhash dying (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A 1960s Soviet plan to re-direct water for cotton irrigation from rivers that fed into the Aral Sea starved what was once the world's fourth largest lake of water, leaving two separate bodies of water in a wasteland of salty mud.
		The river Ili, the principal of seven tributaries leading to Lake Balkhash, flows from northwestern China's Xinjiang province into Kazakhstan and past Almaty on its way to Balkhash which lies wholly in Kazakhstan.
		The lake, half salt and half fresh water, has already suffered from industrial pollution, but too much usage of the Ili's water in China could seal its fate.
	www.kub.kz /article.php?sid=5171 (508 words)

	Environment \| Asia Water Wire
		BALKHASH, Kazakhstan, Nov 30 (Asia Water Wire) - It's difficult for Balkhash-born Daut Shishov to just sit back and watch his beloved lake, whose waters he had enjoyed as a young boy, destroyed and die before his very eyes.
		BALKHASH, Kazakhstan, Nov 4 (Asia Water Wire) – Residents taking a stroll along this town’s sandy beach, strewn with broken bottles and discarded tyres, often talk about the prospect of a nuclear power plant being built a few hundred kilometres from here.
		BALKHASH, Kazakhstan, Nov 3 (Asia Water Wire) - Lake Balkhash, one of the largest inland bodies of water on Earth, is in danger of turning into an environmental death zone whose impact would be felt throughout Central Asia.
	www.asiawaterwire.net /taxonomy/term/2/9 (749 words)

	Известия Науки - LAKE BALKHASH MAY FOLLOW SUIT OF THE ARAL SEA
		Lake Balkhash is a beautiful lake in NE Kazakhstan, some 400 kilometers NW of Alma Ata.
		Yet the future of the Balkahsh now looks as bleak as that of the Aral Sea, the one that was the world’s fourth largest lake in the past.
		Much more water is being taken from the river month by month to meet the needs of the ongoing growth of agriculture and industry in the area.
	www.inauka.ru /englishnews/article38877/print.html (264 words)

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