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 ...

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 ...

MNA In the 7th month of the current Iranian calendar year, Mehr, (starting September 23, 2019), water level in Urmia Lake, has increased by 75 centimeters, i.e. two billion cubic meters, compared to the same month in the year before. Last June, the surface area of the Urmia Lake increased by 829 square kilometers, thanks to the two-month-long springtime ...

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 ...

TEHRAN, Aug. 31 (MNA) Iran and Australia have agreed to launch an aqua research center to breathe new life into Lake Urmia. The agreement has been reached between Irans Sharif University of Technology and Australias University of Melbourne, noted Hossein Shahbaz, International Officer of Urmia Lake Restoration Program (URLP) Committee. Negotiations ...

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The debate over the potential health impacts of Lake Urmia has lately dominated Iranian media, with those involved in the restoration project frequently pointing to cancer, high blood pressure and respiratory problems as the main fallouts of the lake drying up. Experts say if the lake dries up, it will affect all life in a 100-kilometer radius, ...

Abundant precipitation and a series of environmental measures has led to stabilization of Lake Urumia, Mehr News quoted managing director of East Azerbaijan Regional Water Authority Gholam-Reza Hashemi as saying. In the past years, the lakes water level was constantly falling, but this years rainfall helped the restoration efforts of Lake Urmia,...

[caption id="attachment_147264" align="alignright" width="218"] 08 Aug 2010, Iran --- Water has left the path to salt drifts, dry shrubs and abandoned piers. Lake Urmia, Iran. -- The third largest salt water lake in the world is drying up fast, as experts fear another environmental disaster in the Aral Sea. Lake Urmia, Iran. July 2011. --- Image by ...

[caption id="attachment_109262" align="alignright" width="218"] Boats sit on the bed of the dried-out Urmia lake, northwest of Iran October 4, 2013. REUTERS/United Nations Iran/Handout via Reuters[/caption] TABRIZ, Mar. 16 (MNA) Visiting Lake Urmia today, German environmental policy expert Klaus Tpfer has said the lakes crisis must be reflected ...

TEHRAN, Feb. 12 (MNA) Japan government has repeated its contribution of $1 million to UNDP Iran to restore highly dried up salt water Lake Urmia, the official media release informed Mehr News. The Government of Japan has generously contributed $ 1 million to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Iran to continue supporting their efforts ...

[caption id="attachment_148872" align="alignright" width="116"] Bleak and austere: a boat lies rusting and stranded in its waterless mooring on the salty flats of Lake Uromiyeh. Shallow water and high salinity may accelerate the death of the lake even sooner than expected.[/caption] REPRINTIn commemoration of World Wetlands Week we are re-posting ...

New research shows Irans most famous lake has shrunk by nearly 90% since the 1970s. Scientists urge action. n the late 1990s, Lake Urmia, in north-westernIran, was twice as large as Luxembourg and the largest salt-water lake in the Middle East. Since then it has shrunk substantially, and was sliced in half in 2008, with consequences uncertain to this ...

TEHRAN, Jan. 04 (MNA) The head of National Research Center of Caspian Sea has said fluctuations in Caspian Sea level have posed new challenges in transferring water to Irans central deserts and saving Lake Urmia as well. Javad Malek told Mehr News on Saturday that fluctuations and drops in the level of water in seas was an important issue in deciding ...

Tehran, Dec 22, IRNA - A 600-strong workgroup has been formed in Sharif Industrial University to integrate the results of studies conducted by universities on ways to revive the Orumieh Lake, said an official. Issa Kalantari, head of the Headquarters for Reviving Orumieh Lake, added that the problem of Orumieh Lake should be resolved soon, stressing ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Irans first vice-president expressed the administrations determination to carry out the plans for resuscitating the endangered Lake Oroumiyeh in northwest of the country, which has lost large surface in recent years. Speaking to reporters upon his arrival in the northwestern city of Oroumiyeh on Saturday, Eshaq Jahangiri reaffirmed ...

Irans administration approved on Sunday November 3 the plans developed by the task force to save the rapidly drying Lake Urmia, including a budget of about 7.3 trillion rials. The plan puts the Ministry of Agriculture in charge of researching and devising new forms of watering in the Lake Urmia region. The Ministry of Power is charged with the detailed ...

Oroumiyeh, West Azarbaijan Prov, May 19, IRNA Governor General of West Azarbaijan Province Qorban-Ali Saadat said here Sunday evening that saving the dying Oroumiyeh Lake is quite possible and the situation is not worrying, adding that all that is needed for the purpose is strong will and arduous efforts. The top provincial official who was speaking ...

Lake Oroumiyeh in northwest of Iran reflects a broader water problem as several rivers have dried up.   By Tasnim News Agency

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iranian first vice-president reaffirmed the administrations commitment to saving the endangered Lake Oroumiyeh in northwest of the country, which has lost quite a large surface in recent years. Saving Lake Oroumiyeh is an important and national goal, and the administration has mobilized the countrys entire scientific and executive ...