Consider the following statements:Jhelum River passes through Wular Lake.Krishna River directly feed

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Consider the following statements:Jhelum River passes through Wular Lake.Krishna River directly feeds Kolleru Lake.Meandering of Gandak River formed Kanwar Lake.How many of the statements given above are correct?

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Wular Lake is the 2nd largest fresh-water lake of Asia, situated on the foothills of Haramuk Mountain. It is spread in a total area of 200 square km covering almost 24 km in length while its breadth is 10 km. The lake lies between the towns of Sopur and Bandippore, in Sangrama, near Baramulla Road. The main source of water for Wular Lake is River Jhelum. This lake also has a small island in its center called the Zaina Lank. This island was constructed by King Zainul-Abi-Din. Wular Lake is also said to be a remnant of Satisar Lake that existed in ancient times. The premises of this lake also form a popular sunset point. Hence, statement 1 is correct.Kolleru Lake is a natural eutrophic lake, situated between the two major river basins of the Godavari and the Krishna, fed by two seasonal rivers Budameru and Tamleru and a number of drains and channels, which functions as a natural flood balancing reservoir between the deltas of the two rivers. Hence, statement 2 is not correct.Once a haven for migratory birds, the Kanwar Lake in Bihar, Asia’s largest freshwater oxbow lake, is today a dying wetland ecosystem. Kanwar jheel, as it is locally called, is located 22 km north-west of Begusarai town. It is a residual oxbow lake, formed due to meandering of Burhi Gandak River, a tributary of Ganga, in the geological past. It is the largest of a series of shallow permanent and ephemeral wetlands formed in the depression between River Burhi Gandak and palaeochannel of River Bagmati. Kanwar Lake was declared a notified area under the Wildlife (Protection) Act of 1972. To check poaching of birds, it was declared a protected zone by the Bihar state government in 1986; the government of India declared it a bird sanctuary in 1989. The authorities had notified 15,000 acres in the area as wetland, which makes it six times bigger than Keoladeo National Park in Bharatpur, Rajasthan—another well-known bird sanctuary of India. Hence, statement 3 is not correct.River Burhi Gandak rises in the West Champaran district from the spring of Someshwar Hills. The river is known as Sikrchana in its upper reaches. It flows through the West Champaran district in a south-east direction and is joined by several tributaries like Masan, Harbora, Tilawe, Siriswa, Koria, Pasaha, Tiar Hahwa with their catchment in Someshwar Hills. After the confluence of Tier River, Sikrchana is known as Burhi. After receiving tributary Bainty Balan, the river flows in an easterly direction and falls into the River Ganga about 7 km east from the district Khagaria. The Burhi Gandak Basin is bounded on the north by the Himalayas, on the south by the River Ganga, on the east by the Kosi Basin and on the west by the Gandak Basin. The basin extends over the districts of West Champaran, Muzaffarpur, Samstipur and Khagaria of Bihar state.The river Gandak originates at an altitude of 7620 m in the north of Dhaulagiri in Tibet near the Nepal border in the shown peaks of the Himalayas. The river enters Indian territory near Tribeni town in Nepal. Thereafter, the river flows in a southerly direction and forms a boundary between Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. It flows through the districts of West Champaran, East Champaran, Muzaffarpur, Gopalganj, Siwan, Saren and Vaishali in Bihar and Gorakhpur and Deoria districts of Uttar Pradesh before joining Ganga at Hazipur near Patna.