Qinghai Lake is 3,195 meters above sea level and has an area of 4,200 square is saline with a 0.6% salt content,the largest inland salt water lake in China.
Shown here in images taken from space between 1973 and 2009, slowly but surely the Aral - in fact a salt water lake - has shrunk from being the size of Ireland to a cluster of contaminated ponds.
Evaporation of salt water from the ocean or salt water lakes or small seas is one of the more common processes for manufacturing salt.
