Currently, the condition of Lake Urmia is better than three to four years ago in its worst condition, as its level has improved by about 30 percent compared to those years, he noted. Due to the low ...

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, a doubled amount in comparison with last ...

Rahim Meidani, deputy minister of energy, said Lake Urmia will receive 180mcm of water once the project of connecting the two rivers in West Azerbaijan, Zarrinehrud in and Siminehrud, is completed.

Iranian Energy Ministry official Morteza Mousavi has said that the level of water at Iran's Lake Urmia has turned positive after 18 years of recession. He said that during the current water year the ...

During the last seven years, 98 percent of the restoration progress is done, and the Lake will reach its ecological level by March 2022. In an online ceremony attended by President Hassan Rouhani on ...

Iran's Lake Urmia was once the second-largest saltwater lake in the world, covering more than 2,000 square miles at its deepest in the 1990s. In the past two decades, the lake has dried out, shrinking ...

LAKE URMIA, Iran — An eerie and forlorn tableau greets visitors to the arid shores of this once-vast lake in Iran’s far northwest. Rusting ships sit wedged in deep black mud. Stray dogs nibble on ...