Nonstop work to revive Lake Urmia
Financial Tribune – The third phase of Urmia Wastewater Treatment Plant is near completion and is expected to be completed by 2021,…
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Lake Urmia receiving 270 mcm of water
Financial Tribune – To help restore Lake Urmia, close to 270 million cubic meters of water will be gradually discharged into the…
Urmia Lake water level improves
MNA – In the 7th month of the current Iranian calendar year, Mehr, (starting September 23, 2019), water level in Urmia Lake,…
Lake Urmia surface area increases by 26cm
MNA – Lake Urmia’s surface area has increased by 26 centimeters on Thu. compared to the same period last year, according to…
Iran, Australia to coop. on Lake Urmia restoration
TEHRAN, Aug. 31 (MNA) – Iran and Australia have agreed to launch an aqua research center to breathe new life into Lake…
Lake Urmia health impacts
The debate over the potential health impacts of Lake Urmia has lately dominated Iranian media, with those involved in the restoration project…
Lake Urmia blessed by rainfall
Abundant precipitation and a series of environmental measures has led to stabilization of Lake Urumia, Mehr News quoted managing director of East…
Iran, UN and Japan to revive Orumiyeh Lake
Tehran, March 18, IRNA – A document to carry out the second phase of reviving Orumiyeh Lake was signed by Head of…
‘Lake Urmia crisis must become intl. concern’
TABRIZ, Mar. 16 (MNA) – Visiting Lake Urmia today, German environmental policy expert Klaus Töpfer has said the lake’s crisis must be…
Japan donates another $1mn to Lake Urmia restoration plan
TEHRAN, Feb. 12 (MNA) – Japan government has repeated its contribution of $1 million to UNDP Iran to restore highly dried up…
The looming death of Lake Uromiyeh – and what it means for Iran
REPRINTIn commemoration of World Wetlands Week we are re-posting an Op-Ed written by the UN Resident Coordinator in the Islamic Republic of…
Lake Urmia: how Iran’s most famous lake is disappearing
New research shows Iran’s most famous lake has shrunk by nearly 90% since the 1970s. Scientists urge action. n the late 1990s,…
New issues challenge saving Lake Urmia
TEHRAN, Jan. 04 (MNA) – The head of National Research Center of Caspian Sea has said fluctuations in Caspian Sea level have…
Iranian universities to help revive Orumieh Lake
Tehran, Dec 22, IRNA – A 600-strong workgroup has been formed in Sharif Industrial University to integrate the results of studies conducted…
Iran set to revive Lake Oroumiyeh: VP
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s first vice-president expressed the administration’s determination to carry out the plans for resuscitating the endangered Lake Oroumiyeh in…
Iran approves heavy budget to save drying lake
Iran’s administration approved on Sunday November 3 the plans developed by the task force to save the rapidly drying Lake Urmia, including…
Official: Saving Oroumiyeh Lake quite possible, situation not worrying
Oroumiyeh, West Azarbaijan Prov, May 19, IRNA – Governor General of West Azarbaijan Province Qorban-Ali Sa’adat said here Sunday evening that saving…
Photos: Dying Lake Oroumiyeh in northwestern Iran
Lake Oroumiyeh in northwest of Iran reflects a broader water problem as several rivers have dried up. By Tasnim News Agency
Administration determined to save drying Lake Oroumiyeh: Iran’s VP
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian first vice-president reaffirmed the administration’s commitment to saving the endangered Lake Oroumiyeh in northwest of the country, which…
Official reviews Orumieh lake crisis
Tehran, April 22, IRNA – Excessive use of natural resources has caused Orumieh Lake to dry up, said the director general of…
MP sounds warning for Tabriz
Iranian MP Alireza Monadi has warned that the death of Lake Oroumiyeh will result in salt storms that would make the city of…
DOE plans Orumieh Lake confab
The International Conference on Iran’s Orumieh Lake and Hamoun Wetland will be held on March 25 in Tehran in collaboration with the…
Iran in a race to save largest lake from drying up
The first cabinet decision made under Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, was not about how to resolve his country’s nuclear dispute with…
Saving dying lake is priority for Iranian leader
OROUMIEH, Iran (AP) — The first cabinet decision made under Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, wasn’t about how to resolve his country’s…
Iranian officials discuss ways to save Lake Oroumiyeh
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri attended a session of the special working group established to discuss ways for saving…
Special workgroup addresses Lake Urmia saving options
TEHRAN, Feb. 10 (MNA) – Iran’s minister of energy has said special workgroup will start operation to save Lake Urmia with 3…
Japanese experts to visit Lake Urmia next April
TEHRAN, Feb. 3 (MNA) – The head of Iran’s desk in a Japanese institute has said a team of experts will visit…
Its great lake shriveled, Iran confronts crisis of water supply
LAKE URMIA, Iran — After driving for 15 minutes over the bottom of what was once Iran’s largest lake, a local environmental…
Revival of Lake Urmia will take 10 to 15 years: energy minister
TEHRAN – Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian said on Wednesday that a revival of the Lake Urmia will take 10 to 15 years and…
UN resident coordinator in the Islamic Republic of Iran tells Khabar Online: “When I visited Lake Orumiyeh I was shocked More than air pollution I am worried about water”
Q: Given that you are the UN Resident Coordinator in the Islamic Republic of Iran and you regularly follow Iran’s environmental issues,…
Iranian gov’t approves plan to save third largest saltwater lake on earth
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian government approved a plan to save the dying lake of Orumiyeh in the Northwestern parts of the country.…
Today’s top stories in Iran, 07-05-2013
Today’s top stories in Iran include registration of 58 candidates for presidential election until now; allocating no reference currency to import of drug; protesting of…