Lake
Urmia, in Iran's Azarbaijan, used to be one of the largest permanent hypersaline lakes in the world. Its volume in 1997 was 30 billion cubic meters. Today is 2.5 billion cu.m. Mohammad-Reza Tabesh, chairman of the parliament environment and
sustainable development group, said climate change and low precipitation
have caused the same problem for many wetlands in Iran. There are also 100,000 illegal wells in the area. Saturday, April 21, 2018
Azarbaijan Lake Urmia - Dying Silently
Lake
Urmia, in Iran's Azarbaijan, used to be one of the largest permanent hypersaline lakes in the world. Its volume in 1997 was 30 billion cubic meters. Today is 2.5 billion cu.m. Mohammad-Reza Tabesh, chairman of the parliament environment and
sustainable development group, said climate change and low precipitation
have caused the same problem for many wetlands in Iran. There are also 100,000 illegal wells in the area. 
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