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.

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

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 ...

The latest agreement, signed on Dec. 1, 2024, formalizes a project titled "The Project for Developing Conservation System of Wetlands in Lake Urmia and Other Wetlands including their Surrounding ...

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 ...

Shoreline access: Good - The only shorelien fishing is at the access site and along portions of the southern shoreline.

If nothing changed, they predicted, “the lake would be on track to disappear in the next five years,” resulting in the spread of “toxic dust” across the region. Drought conditions left many shallow ...

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