This is a list of bodies of water by salinity that is limited to natural bodies of water that have a stable
salinity above 0.05%, at or below which water is considered
fresh.
Water salinity often varies by location and season, particularly with
hypersaline lakes in arid areas, so the salinity figures in the table below should be interpreted as an approximate indicator.
^Perez, Eduardo; Chebude, Yonas (April 2017). "Chemical Analysis of Gaet'ale, a Hypersaline Pond in Danakil Depression (Ethiopia): New Record for the Most Saline Water Body on Earth". Aquatic Geochemistry. 23 (2): 109–117.
doi:
10.1007/s10498-017-9312-z.
S2CID132715553.
^Woodward, Susan L.
"Saline Lakes". Biomes of the World. Radford, Virginia: Department of Geospatial Science, Radford University. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
^Willever, Katherine (1 August 2016). Biogeochemistry of a Saline, Alkaline, Terminal Lake Ecosystem in Transition; Walker Lake, Nevada. UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones (Thesis).
doi:10.34917/9302977.
^A. Anati, David (March 1999). "The salinity of hypersaline brines: Concepts and misconceptions". International Journal of Salt Lake Research. 8: 55–70.
doi:
10.1023/A:1009059827435.
^Orlovsky, Leah; Matsrafi, Offir; Orlovsky, Nikolai; Kouznetsov, Michael (2014). "Sarykamysh Lake: Collector of Drainage Water – the Past, the Present, and the Future". The Turkmen Lake Altyn Asyr and Water Resources in Turkmenistan. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry. Vol. 28. Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. pp. 107–140.
doi:
10.1007/698_2012_191.
ISBN978-3-642-38606-0.
This is a list of bodies of water by salinity that is limited to natural bodies of water that have a stable
salinity above 0.05%, at or below which water is considered
fresh.
Water salinity often varies by location and season, particularly with
hypersaline lakes in arid areas, so the salinity figures in the table below should be interpreted as an approximate indicator.
^Perez, Eduardo; Chebude, Yonas (April 2017). "Chemical Analysis of Gaet'ale, a Hypersaline Pond in Danakil Depression (Ethiopia): New Record for the Most Saline Water Body on Earth". Aquatic Geochemistry. 23 (2): 109–117.
doi:
10.1007/s10498-017-9312-z.
S2CID132715553.
^Woodward, Susan L.
"Saline Lakes". Biomes of the World. Radford, Virginia: Department of Geospatial Science, Radford University. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
^Willever, Katherine (1 August 2016). Biogeochemistry of a Saline, Alkaline, Terminal Lake Ecosystem in Transition; Walker Lake, Nevada. UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones (Thesis).
doi:10.34917/9302977.
^A. Anati, David (March 1999). "The salinity of hypersaline brines: Concepts and misconceptions". International Journal of Salt Lake Research. 8: 55–70.
doi:
10.1023/A:1009059827435.
^Orlovsky, Leah; Matsrafi, Offir; Orlovsky, Nikolai; Kouznetsov, Michael (2014). "Sarykamysh Lake: Collector of Drainage Water – the Past, the Present, and the Future". The Turkmen Lake Altyn Asyr and Water Resources in Turkmenistan. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry. Vol. 28. Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. pp. 107–140.
doi:
10.1007/698_2012_191.
ISBN978-3-642-38606-0.