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[edit] Name relationships?

1. As Lake Van is in Turkey, the Turkish name of the lake in Turkish should be displayed before any other language. 2. Can anybody explain the relevance of Ottoman-Armenian population, Armenian genocide, or Treaty of Sevres, which are lisred in the "See Also Section", with Lake Van? AldirmaGonul 05:47, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Is Lake Van saline or not?

I have noticed a contradiction between this article and the article on Kurdistan. This article describes Lake Van as a saline body of water; the Kurdistan article describes Lake Van as a non-saline body of water. Would those of you working on these two articles mind sorting this out? I am posting this observation on the other site's Talk page, also.RNavigator 13:11, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Here's some information from http://lakes.chebucto.org/saline1.html

A widely accepted demarcation line between fresh and salt water occurs at 3 grams per litre, or 3 o/oo. (Freshwater lakes contain 0 - 3 g/L of salt and saltwater lakes anything over 3 g/L). Here are data for some lakes:

Lake	Salinity (g/L)
Caspian Sea	10-12
Lake Van	24
Great Salt Lake	150-280
Dead Sea (Israel/Jordan)	over 300

I think it's clear that Van is definitely a salt lake, but obviously much less salty than the Dead Sea.

Various salts contribute to the salinity, not just sodium chloride. In particular, the presence of sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate in some salt lakes makes the water alkaline. Lake Van has a pH of 9.8 which is distinctly alkaline (data from http://www.internationales-buero.de/_media/Abstract-Sari.pdf).

Hope that helps. Euchiasmus 05:25, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sources

I provided them, its good enough. Artaxiad 19:12, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

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