LAKE URMIA Summertime bathers wade into waters colored ... leaving the lake increasingly dry and barren. Pérez Lovera expects Poopó may partly refill, perhaps as soon as this year, if La Niña ...

Due to low precipitation and insufficient water right allocation, some 43 percent of the wetlands of the country are subject ...

“The lake volume has been decreasing at ... it seems to have run out again. By autumn 2023, Urmia was little more than an ...

Lake Urmia, which had 102 islands, fed by 13rivers and is protected under national park status, began drying up during the 2005-2013 Ahmadinejad administrations when several dams were placed upstream.

Iran has spent heavily on infrastructure projects in recent years to prevent Lake Urmia, Iran’s largest salt lake, from drying up. Lake Urmia, located in the northwest of Iran, was once the most ...