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Sawa Lake

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is a popular picnic area but this has caused a great deal of garbage accumulation everywhere around the lake. There appears to be no effort by visitors or government to manage or remove garbage from the site. Because there is no plant cover on the lake (reed beds, etc.), water birds have few places to shelter from visitors or hunters. Three threats were classified as ‘high’: urban expansion (the team was informed that the lake area was submitted for an investment project which might involve new construction around the lake); hunting, primarily represented by fishing (mainly netting) and hunting of birds, and pollution caused by the frequent visitors. Other threats (agriculture, resource extraction, transportation and service corridors, and natural systems modification) were considered ‘low’. The lake has been designated as a protected
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cracks, and fissure systems. The lake has longitudinal shape with 4.47 km, long and 1.77 km wide. The water level in the lake is one of the manifestations of the lake, which gives something of aesthetic and strangeness. Strangeness reflected the fact that the water level in the lake is higher than the adjacent land around the lake by 1–4 meters. Add to that, the water level of the lake is also higher than the water level of the Euphrates River by 5–7 meters which flow near the lake to the east side and the Shat Al-Arab and
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Sawa Lake is characterized by arid climate. Highest and lowest temperatures are ranges between (27.6– 44.6) °C. Mean annual rainfall is 110 mm per year, highest values of evaporation occur during July (506 mm) while lowest values occurring in January (89 mm). Overall wind direction is
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As Sawa Lake represents a unique, closed water body in Iraq it is an important site to protect for its scientific, educational and biodiversity value. Only human intrusion was considered a high threat because Sawa Lake is the only water body available for the city of Samawa and its surroundings. It
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Lake Sawa is a unique body of water in Iraq since characterized by highest salinity value (up to 35 g/L as TDS) among Iraqi inland bodies water. Chemical and isotope analyses revealed its meteoric origin and a confirm a main feeding from the ascending groundwater from the lake bottom via joints,
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The desert area on the western side of the lake, the fresh wetland strip (represented by the western branch of Euphrates River including the orchards), and the flat arid/semi-desert areas over the southern parts of the lake might harbor considerable wildlife diversity, mammals present include
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by 17–20 m. A formations of gypsum are surrounding the lake, in some cases these a gypsum formations reach 6 m tall. They are formed due to evaporation of salty water and sedimentation of salt in shallow banks of lake. A formations of gypsum works as a dam prevent water flow from the lake on
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Unlike its scarcity of aquatic organisms, Sawa Lake is rich with birds; 25 species of resident and immigrant birds were observed in Sawa Lake and the surrounding areas. the lake held large numbers of
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Boschetti, Tiziano; Awadh, Salih Muhammad; Salvioli-Mariani, Emma (2018). "The Origin and MgCl2–NaCl Variations in an Athalassic Sag Pond: Insights from Chemical and Isotopic Data".
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city. This lake has no inlet or outlet, but it draws water from the Euphrates through a system of joint cracks and fissures which transport water to aquifers beneath it.
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family, characterized by its soft appearance, small size (they do not exceed 10 cm), and eyes that quickly disappear after death. Also there are
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Since 2014, the five-square-kilometer (two-square-mile) lake has been drying up. The lake also used to be a stopover for
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Iraqi Meteorological Organization., 2012: Climate data of recorded in Al-Sammwa station for period from (1990-2011)
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are the most important aquatic organisms. One kind of fish lives in Sawa Lake, the
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Because of its saline water, no plants grow in the lake or on its shores.
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Satellite images showing how the lake dried up in 5 years.
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Sawa lake

Location of Sawa Lake in Iraq
Muthanna Governorate
Iraq
31°18′46.3″N 44°57′36.6″E / 31.312861°N 44.960167°E / 31.312861; 44.960167
Lake type
Endorheic basin
Surface area
Ramsar Wetland
Arabic
endorheic basin
Muthanna
Euphrates
Al-Samawa
Persian Gulf
Fish
algae
Arabian toothcarp
Aphanius
Cyprinodontidatae
Pomatiopsis tryon
Gastropoda genus
Oligocene age
waterfowl
ducks
coot
little grebe
Mesopotamian crow
grey hypocolius

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