Iran is to open a major water storage and transfer project as part of efforts to revive Lake Urmia, a salt lake in northwest of the country which has shrunk in recent years because of excessive use of water from rivers and underground water in surrounding regions.
Despite recent precipitations, the area of Lake Urmia has decreased by more than 1,000 square kilometers.
Located in northwest Iran, Lake Urmia is the largest lake in West Asia and the sixth-largest Salt Lake in the world with a water surface area of 5,000 to 6,000 square kilometers.
Rainfall in the catchment areas of Lake Urmia is also facing ...
Financial Tribune - The third phase of Urmia Wastewater Treatment Plant is near completion and is expected to be completed by 2021, managing director of West Azarbaijan Water and Wastewater Company said.
Upon completion of this phase, 51 million cubic meters of treated wastewater will be pumped into Lake Urmia annually, Mehr News Agency quoted Alireza ...
MNA The water level at Lake Urmia, northwestern Iran, currently stands at 1,271 meters above sea level, which is 35 centimeters more than the water level on the corresponding date in last year.
Atabak Jafari, head of West Azarbaijan Regional Water Company said that despite the decrease in regional precipitation, water level of the lake has registered ...
Financial Tribune - To help restore Lake Urmia, close to 270 million cubic meters of water will be gradually discharged into the troubled lake from four dams in West Azarbaijan Province over the next two months, head of Urmia Lake Restoration Project said.
Average rate of water flow into the lake is 61 cubic meters per second or five million cubic ...
Financial Tribune - Lake Urmia water level is on the rise following good rainfall that started last year and restoration programs carried out recently.
The programs include efficient management of surface and underground water in the lakes vicinity, IRNA reported.
One of the main measures included in the Lake Urmia Restoration Program is to divert ...
Financial Tribune - Close to 1.6 billion cubic meters of water evaporated from Urmia Lake in the last 90 days, head of the Base Studies Department of East Azarbaijan Water Company said.
Due to evaporation, the lake's water level has fallen by 50 centimeters compared to May when it reached a record high at 1,272 cm during the last ten years, Aqil ...
Financial Tribune - A round 2.46 billion cubic meters of water has been released from dams in West Azarbaijan Province into Lake Urmia since the beginning of the current water year (last September), managing director of the provincial Regional Water Company said.
"Of the total volume, 1.86 billion cubic meters was released in the past four months ...
Tehran Times - The Department of Environment (DOE) will implement four plans on reviving the endangered ecosystem and wildlife of the Lake Urmia islands, Hamid Zohrabi, DOE deputy chief for natural environment and biodiversity directorate, announced.
Two islands of Ashk and Kaboodan burdened the direct consequences of drying Lake Urmia, loosing many ...
MNA The surface area of the Urmia Lake in north-west Iran has increased by 829 square kilometers, thanks to the two-month-long springtime showers that began pouring across the country in March.
According to Aghil Aghdasi, an official with Regional Water Company of East Azerbaijan province, the lake's water surface has reached 3,231 square kilometers,...
Tehran Times - The vice presidency for science and technology will take measures in accordance with Lake Urmia restoration utilizing technology advances, IRNA news agency reported on Wednesday.
Technology development council of water, drought, erosion and environment affiliated to the vice presidency for science and technology has signed a memorandum ...
MNA | Vahid Abdi : Recent heavy rains, while having caused severe damage and loss of lives in several provinces across Iran, have also helped the second largest saltwater lake in the world namely Lake Urmia in northwest Iran to further revive. The level of water in the biggest Iranian lake has sharply increased to a level much higher than the previous ...
Tehran Times - The level of water in Lake Urmia, northwestern Iran, has increased by 33 centimeters compared to the same time last year, head of the provincial department for the Lake Urmia restoration program in West Azarbaijan province has said.
Currently, the volume of water of the lake is 1.920 billion cubic meters which experienced 250 million ...
MNA Lake Urmias surface area has increased by 26 centimeters on Thu. compared to the same period last year, according to Farhad Sarkhosh, the head of Urmia Lake Restoration Project.
Speaking to IRNA on Friday, Sarkhosh maintained that the surface area of Lake Urmia in northwest Iran reached 1,270.54 centimeters on December 27, which shows a 26cm ...
IRNA An Iranian official said on Sunday that the level of water in Lake Urmia, northwestern Iran, has increased compared to the same period last year on December 23.
Speaking to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) on Saturday, Farhad Sarkhosh, Head of Urmia Lake Restoration Project said that the water level of Lake Urmia in northwest Iran reached ...
IRNA President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday that the Government of Prudence and Hope adheres to commitments regarding Orumieh Lake, as it is allocating necessary funds for reviving it.
Addressing a gathering of West Azarbaijan elites late Monday, he added, If it were not for the governments measures in the past, given the situation it faced, the ...
May 6, The Iran Project The Government of Japan has generously contributed another US$ 1 million to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Iran to continue supporting their efforts to contribute to the restoration of Lake Urmia.This is Japans fifth contribution.
The signing ceremony took place on 30 April at the Department of Environment (DoE) ...
IFP - Some 10,000 flamingos that migrated to Urmia Lake months ago have delayed flying off to their next destination due to favorable weather and environmental conditions around the lake, as well as adequate food supply.
According to Omid Yousefi, the head of Wildlife Monitoring Office at West Azarbaijans office of the Department of ...
Financial Tribune- The head of the Department of Environments office in East Azarbaijan Province said efforts to restore Urmia Lake are progressing as scheduled.
Speaking to ISNA, Hamid Qasemi also said on Monday that Urmia Lake will reach ecological balance by 2023.
While 2023 was originally set as the year in which the imperiled lake would ...
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