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    Our Oceans, Rivers and Lakes
    Our Oceans, Rivers and Lakes
    Our Oceans, Rivers and Lakes
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    Our Oceans, Rivers and Lakes

    By Mahesh Dutt Sharma

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    There are great reserves of Ocean waters on the earth. Around 97 percent of total water is found in the oceans and simultaneously 70 percent of the earth’s area is covered with Oceans.
    World’s generally all sea’s, mountains, lakes and the snow and water emerging from the mountains, all get accumulated and meet in the oceans. In Hindu mythology Lord Vishnu has been said to be resting in the Ocean. Varun has been called as God of Oceans.
    In our solar system, the oceans found on the earth are monism. No such Oceans are found on any other planet. Oceans have their own whole world filled with mysteries and diffusion. Every being of the ocean is there to create amusement in us. In spite of so many researches, yet several mysteries of the oceans remain unsolved.
    Rivers and lakes are too very important to us and our environment as they provide us with fresh and clean water. Rivers flow from a number of origins. These origins can be lakes and mountains. Almost every river meets another river or ocean at the end of its journey. The river which meets the main river is called the Helper Rivers. The area from where a river passes is called its water accepting area. To maintain the level of the river and its flowing speed it is necessary to make sure that we don’t exploit the water accepting place.
    Many rivers become a cause of flood in many places in the monsoon season. If the river is large then it can affect a large area. The rivers which carry a lot of top soil with them often form deltas.
    Many forests grow on the banks of the rivers including a number of species. Many fishes have adapted to live in the rivers as well as the seas like the Hilsa and Salmon fishes.
    From thousands of years rivers have been playing an important role in the lives of the human beings and this is the reason why many important towns and cities are located on the banks of the rivers.
    We love our rivers, we pray to them but we also pollute them. We use the river water for drinking, bathing, as a means of transportation and entertainment, we also use them to generate electricity and then we throw the waste in the rivers. This is not taking advantage but in this way we are ruining our own future.
    We started using rivers as a means of transportation 3300 years ago. This happened when people floated a boat for the first time in the river Indus. From that time till now we can see a number of rivers used as a means of transportation. Some of these rivers are Ganga, Nile and Mississippi Missouri.
    We catch many fishes from these rivers while they also help us in irrigation. In the following book detailed information has been given about main rivers, oceans and lakes. Let’s know more about them.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMahesh Dutt Sharma
    Release dateApr 22, 2013
    ISBN9781301085583
    Our Oceans, Rivers and Lakes
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    Mahesh Dutt Sharma

    Mahesh Sharma, a prestigious author and journalist, has written more than 1550 Hindi and English books. His book, "Mahatma Gandhi," won the M.P. Govt. Gandhi Darshan National Award in 2010. He also won Purvottar Hindi Academy, Meghalaya, Shilong Award twice, Natraj Author Award etc.. He is a freelance writer and writing is his passion.

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      Our Oceans, Rivers and Lakes - Mahesh Dutt Sharma

      Our Oceans, Rivers and Lakes

      By Mahesh Sharma

      Published by Mahesh Dutt Sharma

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      Prologue

      There are great reserves of Ocean waters on the earth. Around 97 percent of total water is found in the oceans and simultaneously 70 percent of the earth’s area is covered with Oceans.

      World’s generally all sea’s, mountains, lakes and the snow and water emerging from the mountains, all get accumulated and meet in the oceans. In Hindu mythology Lord Vishnu has been said to be resting in the Ocean. Varun has been called as God of Oceans.

      In our solar system, the oceans found on the earth are monism. No such Oceans are found on any other planet. Oceans have their own whole world filled with mysteries and diffusion. Every being of the ocean is there to create amusement in us. In spite of so many researches, yet several mysteries of the oceans remain unsolved.

      Rivers and lakes are too very important to us and our environment as they provide us with fresh and clean water. Rivers flow from a number of origins. These origins can be lakes and mountains. Almost every river meets another river or ocean at the end of its journey. The river which meets the main river is called the Helper Rivers. The area from where a river passes is called its water accepting area. To maintain the level of the river and its flowing speed it is necessary to make sure that we don’t exploit the water accepting place.

      Many rivers become a cause of flood in many places in the monsoon season. If the river is large then it can affect a large area. The rivers which carry a lot of top soil with them often form deltas.

      Many forests grow on the banks of the rivers including a number of species. Many fishes have adapted to live in the rivers as well as the seas like the Hilsa and Salmon fishes.

      From thousands of years rivers have been playing an important role in the lives of the human beings and this is the reason why many important towns and cities are located on the banks of the rivers.

      We love our rivers, we pray to them but we also pollute them. We use the river water for drinking, bathing, as a means of transportation and entertainment, we also use them to generate electricity and then we throw the waste in the rivers. This is not taking advantage but in this way we are ruining our own future.

      We started using rivers as a means of transportation 3300 years ago. This happened when people floated a boat for the first time in the river Indus. From that time till now we can see a number of rivers used as a means of transportation. Some of these rivers are Ganga, Nile and Mississippi Missouri.

      We catch many fishes from these rivers while they also help us in irrigation. In the following book detailed information has been given about main rivers, oceans and lakes. Let’s know more about them.

      -Author

      Table of Contents

      1. Five Major Oceans

      2. Some other Oceans and Seas

      3. Oceanic Layers

      4. Oceanic Currents

      5. Hurricanes

      6. Salty Oceans

      7. Life in oceans

      8. Importance of Oceans

      9. Oceans: Interesting Facts

      10. Amazon River

      11. Colorado River

      12. Congo River

      13. Danube River

      14. Yangtze River

      15. Hwang-Ho River

      16. Mekong River

      17. Murray River

      18. Darling River

      19. River Nile

      20. Zambezi River

      21. Lena River

      22. Ob River

      23. Mackenzie River

      24. Amu Darya

      25. Indus River

      26. Ganga River

      27. Brahmaputra River

      28. Narmada River

      29. World’s major Sea’s and countries related to Rivers

      30. Our Lakes

      31. Caspian Sea Lake

      32. Lake Victoria

      33. Great Slave Lake

      34. Lake Malawi

      35. Dead Sea Lake

      36. Great Bear Lake

      37. Tanganyika Lake

      38. Lake Titicaca

      39. Lake Assal

      40. Dale Lake

      41. Superior Lake

      42. Pushkar Lake

      43. Chilka Lake

      44. Bhimtal Lake

      45. Vembanad Lake

      46. Lake Baikal

      47. Interesting Facts about Rivers and Lakes

      1. Five Major Oceans

      Oceans affect the environment of the earth in depth. They especially affect the temperature and climate. It sucks the solar radiation thereby balancing the temperature of the earth. This solar radiation gets collected in the oceans in the form of calorie energy, to whom they always keep on distributing among the unsteady oceanic waves in the atmosphere, with this process the earth and the wind remains warm in winters and cold in summers.

      It is very interesting to know that all the oceans are interlinked with each other. Presently are five major

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