Xinjiang's 'Dead Sea' re-stores water and 'resurrection', Lop Nur is back to life? Where does the water come from?
To say how many strange sights there are in the world, it is really countless! So have you heard of Lop Nor? Many people should know, why is this? Because the place of Lop Nur is particularly magical, because if you overlook it above it, you will find that it looks like a giant's ear, which once attracted many people to come here to explore.
Looking at history with cold eyes
But a few years later, the lake here is not even a drop of water, the sky is full of yellow sand, and there is no one inhabited. A true "sea of death". However, what is unexpected is that in recent years, there has been a sparkling lake in this Lop Nur. What happened?
Looking at history with cold eyes
A long time ago, there was an ancient country next to Lop Nur, called the ancient country of Loulan. Because the living water of the people in the ancient country of Loulan is all taken from this lake, the water in Lop Nur is getting less and less.
Looking at history with cold eyes
Loulan people knew that this was not the way to go, so they began to find ways to bring other water sources to Lop Nur, but they all ended in failure. The dry up of Lop Nur made the ancient country of Loulan no longer exist. But fortunately, the depression in Lop Nur has been preserved, which brings new hope for the resurrection of Lop Nur.
Looking at history with cold eyes
At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the early years of the Republic of China, because of the change in the direction of the river, water reappeared in Lop Nur, which brought vitality to Lop Nur again. During the founding of the People's Republic of China, the water in Lop Nur reached half of the largest area in history. It can be said that this is the best gift from nature.
Looking at history with cold eyes
But good luck always disappears. In the 1960s and 1970s, there were more and more human beings on the earth, and the use of water sources also increased linearly. People used more water, and many reservoirs were built. Will this situation make Lop Nur face a crisis again? That's right, a few years later, the water in Lop Nur disappeared without a trace again, and it returned to the appearance of the sea of death again. There is no plant to grow here, and the animals die because of this, and walk away.
Looking at history with cold eyes
You know, in addition to those explorers, scientists are also full of curiosity about this Lop Nur, so the exploration of Lop Nur has never stopped. Sure enough, the emperor paid off, what did the scientists discover? We would never have imagined that there is a particularly large potash mine here, with a total volume of 250 million tons, ranking second in the country.
Looking at history with cold eyes
At the beginning of this century, the state has already implemented the plan to mine this potash mine. The most important thing in this mining is to extract potassium salt from seawater. The miners began to extract the lake water from the ground, and after extracting the potash from the seawater on the ground, the remaining water was discharged on the surface. Lop Nur is originally a low-lying basin, so soon a lake full of hope appeared again in Lop Nur, but it is unknown how long this lake will survive on earth.