Located around 500 km from Mumbai, the Lonar lake in Buldhana district is a popular tourist hub and also attracts scientists from all over the world.
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Can’t be human intervention: Lonar lake colour changes to pink; experts, locals surprised. Watch video

The color of water in Maharashtra’s Lonar lake, fashioned after a meteorite hit the Earth some 50,000 years in the past, has modified to pink with specialists attributing it to the salinity and presence of algae within the water physique.

Located round 500 km from Mumbai, the Lonar lake in Buldhana district is a well-liked vacationer hub and likewise attracts scientists from all around the world.

Of late, the change in color of water of the lake, having a imply diameter of 1.2 km, has not solely stunned locals, but in addition nature fanatics and scientists.

Experts say this isn’t the primary time that the color change has occurred, however this time it’s extra obtrusive.

 

The lake, which is a notified nationwide geo-heritage monument, has saline water with pH of 10.5, Gajanan Kharat, member of the Lonar lake conservation and improvement committee, advised PTI.

“There are algae in the water body. The salinity and algae can be responsible for this change,” he mentioned.

“There is no oxygen below one meter of the lake’s water surface. There is an example of a lake in Iran, where water becomes reddish due to increase in salinity,” he famous.

Kharat mentioned the extent of water within the Lonar lake is at the moment low as in comparison with the few previous years and there’s no rain to pour contemporary water in it.

“The low level of water may lead to increased salinity and change in the behaviour of algae because of atmospheric changes…this may be the reason for colour change. This is not the first time that the colour of water has changed,” he mentioned.

Dr Madan Suryavanshi, head of the geography division of Aurangabad’s Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, mentioned trying on the scale of this color change, “this cant be a human intervention”.

“In case of a natural phenomenon, there are fungi which generally give a greenish colour to water most of the times. This (the current colour change) seems to be a biological change in the Lonar crater,” he mentioned.

During the lockdown section, there could not have been any disturbance to water which led to this alteration, he mentioned.

“Season-wise changes occur in water and this might be case with the Lonar lake. We can examine the change if we go there in a week…then we can say more about the change,” he mentioned.

(This story has been revealed from a wire company feed with out modifications to the textual content. Only the headline has been modified.)

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