Fresh water
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Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. The term excludes seawater and brackish w
Freshwater ecosystem
Amazonas, Iquitos Leticia, Kolumbien
Cove with Shamans Rock Olkhon Island Lake Baikal Russia
Transition from Sawgrass to Coastal Habitat, NPS Photo
Lake Baikal
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Lake Baikal is a rift lake and the deepest lake in the world. It is situated in southern Siberia, Russia, between the federal subjects of Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Republic of Buryatia t
Fresh water
…water in lakes, swamps and rivers. Freshwater lakes contain about 87% of this fresh surface water, including 29% in the African Great Lakes, 22% in Lake Baikal in Russia, 21% in the North American Great Lakes, and 14% in other lakes. Swamps have most of the balance with only a small amount in rivers, most…
Lake Baikal's water is especially clear
Spring ice melt underway on Lake Baikal, on 4 May, 2012
Ice cover survey on the lake
Circle of thin ice, diameter of 4.4 km (2.7 mi) at the lake's southern tip, probably caused by convection