South Lake () is a subtropical shallow freshwater lake located in Nanhu Subdistrict, in the southern suburbs of

Wuchang Wuchang forms part of the urban core of and is one of 13 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, China. It is the oldest of the three cities that merged into modern-day Wuhan, and stood on the ri ...

Wuhan Wuhan (, ; ; ) is the capital of Hubei Province in the People's Republic of China. It is the largest city in Hubei and the most populous city in Central China, with a population of over eleven million, the ninth-most populous Chinese city an ...

Hubei Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The ...

Province, China. It has an average depth of 1.6 metres, lake bottom elevation 18 m, the width of the lake is about 15.4 km long, the length of the lake is about 5.4 km wide, area of 5km².

Water pollution

The area around the lake is densely populated. Since the 1980s, with the development of industry, and the dramatic increase in population, South Lake’s water quality has gradually deteriorated, and the

eutrophication Eutrophication is the process by which an entire body of water, or parts of it, becomes progressively enriched with minerals and nutrients, particularly nitrogen and phosphorus. It has also been defined as "nutrient-induced increase in phytopla ...

process has intensified. 水利渔业 In 2007, volume III，武汉南湖源生物的初步研究呼光富, 刘红, 马徐发

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