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FRESHWATER ISSUES IN MONGOLIA - Panda
FRESHWATER ISSUES IN MONGOLIA . Batnasan N. WWF MONGOLIA Programme Office E-mail: water resources of MONGOLIA are limited and unevenly distributed within the country and there are three main hydrological Basins: Arctic Ocean basin, Pacific Ocean basin and Central Asian Internal Drainage basin. The Central Asian Internal Drainage basin is the largest one and includes the Great Lakes Depression, including Uvs Lake, Khar-Us Lake, Khar Lake, and Khyargas Lake. Figure 1. Main Hydrological basins of MONGOLIA water resources of MONGOLIA are highly vulnerable to climatic conditions. MONGOLIA has harsh continental climate with four distinctive seasons, high annual temperature fluctuations, and low rainfall. Average annual temperature ranges between in the Gobi and in high mountain regions of Mongolian Altai, Khangai and Khentei.
Total water resource of Mongolia is estimated as 599 km3, from which 83.7% is located in 3500 lakes, 10.5% in 262 glaciers and 5.8 % in 3811 rivers (Surface water of Mongolia, 1999).
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