The representative of the Iranian parliament Mansour Hagigatpur noted that Lake Urmia is missing 14 million cubic meters of water. Hagigatpur showed the increase sowing areas from 110,000 hectares to ...

TEHRAN – The area of Lake Urmia has declined due to reduced precipitations, reaching 1,140 square kilometers on April 4 compared to 1,350 square kilometres on the same day last year. Lake Urmia in the ...

Summertime bathers wade into waters colored red by salt-loving bacteria and algae. Tourists from across Iran have come here for generations, but the number of visitors has fallen as the lake has ...

TABNAK, Jan 29: A local subsidiary of Iran’s Energy Ministry in West Azerbaijan province, where Lake Urmia is located, said that the amount of water in the lake had increased by 0.19 billion cubic ...

Previous reports have said Lake Urmia needs 3.1 billion cubic meters of water per year to survive. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani set up a working group for saving Lake Urmia , the Committee for ...

This is a sad story but one with a little bit of hope in the end. Like the famous Aral Sea in central Asia and the Great Salt Lake in Utah, the expanse of Iran’s Lake Urmia has been drying up ...

This picture taken on Dec. 8, 2018, shows a general view of Iran's salt lake of Urmia in the country's northwest, which had been shrinking in one of the worst ecological disasters of the past ...

In late April, NASA’s Aqua satellite captured Lake Urmia with a deep green hue. But as of mid-July, the body of water was filled with algae and bacteria that turned it into a stained red pool.

Compared to the Great Salt Lake, the fate of Lake Urmia is on fast-forward. Over just 20 years, diversions caused Urmia's salinity to jump from 190 grams of salt per liter of water to over 350 ...