Consider the following pairs:
| Wetlands | Confluence of rivers |
| 1) Harike Wetlands | Confluence of Beas and Satluj/Sutlej |
| 2) Keoladeo Ghana | Confluence of Banas National Park and Chambal |
| 3) Kolleru Lake | Confluence of Musi and Krishna |
Which of the above pairs is/are correctly matched?
- 1 only
- 2 and 3 only
- 1 and 3 only
- 1, 2 and 3
Explanation
Pair 1 is correct
- It is a shallow water reservoir at the confluence of the Beas and Sutlej rivers. This site was accorded the wetland status in 1990 by the Ramsar Convention.
Pair 2 is incorrect
- Keoladeo National Park is a 29 km2 area situated on the extreme western edge of the Gangetic basin that was once the confluence of Rivers Gambhir and Banganga in Bharatpur district of the state of Rajasthan.
Pair 3 is incorrect
- Kolleru Lake is located between the deltas of Krishna and Godavari Rivers in Andhra Pradesh.
- The lake receives water from the seasonal Budameru and Tammileru streams, which are integral to its ecosystem.
- Kolleru Lake functions as a natural flood-balancing reservoir for the region, interconnected with numerous inflowing drains and channels from both the Krishna and Godavari systems
