Talk:List of lakes by volume
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[edit] Colors
I tend to screw these things up when I try to fix them, but it would nice to have more contrasting colors for Europe and Asia in the list. Even juxtaposed, it's hard to tell the two apart. siafu 21:02, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Lake Toba
Is there a reason Lake Toba isn't on the list? It's 240 km3, which should make it number 20. --Chriswaterguy talk 10:22, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
- I thought the same thing? --68.9.117.174 (talk) 02:44, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Single source?
The article as currently written makes explicit reference to one source (van der Leeden, Troise, and Todd, eds., The Water Encyclopedia, 1990) for the volumes and rankings. It is certainly true that different sources vary greatly, partly because of changing research, and partly because volume is not a property that it is practical to measure directly, and so must be inferred from bathymetry. However, using a single 17-year-old source seems out of keeping with Wikipedia's principles. Perhaps we should be aiming to take data from the best available source(s) for each lake, and include any sufficiently voluminous lake with plausibly accurate data. A good start would be to provide references for each measurement added. Rupert Clayton (talk) 16:19, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Lake Tahoe
Please add Lake Tahoe with a volume of 151 cu km; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Tahoe Jim224 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 01:29, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
