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Final Fifteen Questions
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- Which Ethiopian lake is the source of the Blue Nile, and what major dam project on that river is currently disputed among Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt? — Lake Tana; the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
- Name India's unified central scheme for lake and wetland conservation, and the two earlier schemes it merged in 2013. — The National Plan for Conservation of Aquatic Ecosystems (NPCA); it merged the National Lake Conservation Plan (NLCP) and the National Wetlands Conservation Programme (NWCP).
- Which Bengaluru lake has repeatedly made national news for catching fire and overflowing with toxic foam? — Bellandur Lake.
- Name the three Indian cities awarded Ramsar's "Wetland City Accreditation" in 2022. — Udaipur, Bhopal, and Indore.
- What new dam/reservoir is being built under the Ken-Betwa river-linking project, India's first working river-interlinking scheme? — The Daudhan Dam, on the Ken river.
- Name Goa's best-known natural freshwater lake. — Mayem Lake, Bicholim taluka.
- Which Punjab wetland, near Kapurthala, is historically associated with Guru Nanak's meditation along the Kali Bein rivulet? — Kanjli Wetland.
- Name Haryana's Ramsar-designated bird sanctuary lake and its largest natural lake, respectively. — Sultanpur (Ramsar bird sanctuary); Damdama Lake (largest natural lake).
- Which Jharkhand reservoir was built specifically to supply water and power to the Tata Steel plant in Jamshedpur? — Dimna Lake.
- Name the Ramsar-designated Kolkata wetland system famous for recycling the city's sewage through a fish-pond aquaculture system. — East Kolkata Wetlands.
- Which two lakes anchor India's houseboat tourism industry, and what is the key difference in how their vessels are typically used? — Dal Lake (static, moored houseboats) and Vembanad Lake (cruising kettuvallam rice barges).
- Contrast the fisheries at Chilika, Loktak, and Pulicat with the aquaculture crisis at Kolleru in one sentence. — The first three support traditional, broadly sustainable fishing livelihoods, while Kolleru's unregulated aquaculture ponds became the very cause of the lake's ecological damage.
- Compare the scale of salt extraction at Sambhar Lake and Tso Kar. — Sambhar is India's largest commercial-scale inland salt source; Tso Kar is worked on a much smaller, traditional scale by local Changpa pastoralists.
- Name at least four Indian lakes or lake-clusters associated primarily with adventure or pilgrimage tourism. — Any four of: the Kashmir Great Lakes trek (Gangabal-Nundkol, Vishansar-Krishansar), Roopkund, Sheshnag (Amarnath Yatra), Pushkar (camel fair), Rewalsar, Gurudongmar, or the Nainital/Bhimtal/Sattal/Naukuchiatal/Ooty/Kodaikanal hill-station cluster.
- Name the karst-lake world example given in this book's classification primer, and the Indian lake given as this book's own example of a karst/spring-fed lake. — Croatia's Plitvice Lakes (world example); Sasthamkotta Lake, Kerala (Indian example).
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