{"id":52037,"date":"2022-09-06T22:08:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T16:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/harmful-substances-increased-significantly-in-dal-lake-study\/"},"modified":"2022-09-06T22:08:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T16:38:36","slug":"harmful-substances-increased-significantly-in-dal-lake-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=52037","title":{"rendered":"Harmful substances increased significantly in Dal Lake: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Srinagar Sep 06:<\/strong>\u00a0In a major concern, the concentration of harmful substances like nitrate, phosphates, and chlorides have increased significantly in Dal lake in the last 25 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This has been stated in a recent study titled \u201cThe changing water quality of lakes\u2014a case study of Dal Lake, Kashmir Valley,\u201d which was published by environmental monitoring and assessment journal in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study has found that the concentration of harmful substances like phosphates, chlorides, and nitrates has increased tremendously over the last 25 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cConcentration of total phosphorus has increased from 0.1 to 0.4 mg\/l in 1997 to about 6 mg\/l in 2017. Similarly, chlorides have shown a steep increase from 2\u20132.7 mg\/l 329 in 2007 to 10.3 mg\/l in 2017. Other elements like calcium and magnesium, have also witnessed an increasing trend in the lake,\u201d it says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study has found that dissolved oxygen (DO) levels, on the other hand, have shown signi\ufb01cant decline.&nbsp; \u201cAnnual DO values of the lake have decreased from 7.4 mg\/l in 1997 to 6.9 mg\/l in 2017,\u201d it says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DO is the amount of oxygen present in water. It is essential for the survival of fish and other aquatic organisms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has witnessed extreme loss in water quality during the last four decades because of human activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Javeed Ahmad, an environment researcher said there are various factors which have a\ufb00ected the lake water quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere is an urgent need to address the problems associated with lake restoration, management, and conservation by both authorities and the local population,\u201d he told news agency KINS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar Sep 06:\u00a0In a major concern, the concentration of harmful substances like nitrate, phosphates, and chlorides have increased significantly in Dal lake in the last 25 years. This has been stated in a recent study titled \u201cThe changing water quality of lakes\u2014a case study of Dal Lake, Kashmir Valley,\u201d which was published by environmental monitoring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}