MNA Sistan and Balouchestan Governor Ahmad Ali Mohebati said that about 35 percent of the international Hamun wetland in southeast Iran has been revived due to the recent rainfall and increase in the volume of the Helmand River. He made the remarks on the sidelines of his visit from different parts of Sistan and Balouchestan province, southeast ...

The director of the Environment Protection Organization has said that Iran and Afghanistan should establish closer environmental cooperation. In a meeting with visiting Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Sunday, Masoumeh Ebtekar said that such collaboration should mainly focus on the revival of Hamoon Lagoon to soften the impact its degradation leaves ...

TEHRAN, Nov. 26 (MNA) Irans Department of Environment is calling on Afghanistan and other international organizations to help revive Hamun Lake ecosystem. Mohsen Soleimani Rouzbahani, project director of Irans wetlands perseveration, said at the moment, Hamun Lake is in dire conditions. But we are concentrating our efforts to find appropriate solutions ...

The head of the Zabol College of Physicians reports that 500 people contract tuberculosis in Sistan-Baluchistan each year. The Shargh daily reports that tuberculosis cases have risen dramatically following the drying of Hamoon Lake. The Zabol governor announced that the high concentration of dust particles in the air is the main factor in the growing ...

Irans Department of the Environment had announced that the minister of power has accepted the plan to dismantle a number of dams in order to revive Lakes Oroumiyeh and Hamoon. Esmail Kahrom, the Department of the Environment aide for natural resources, said the Ministry of Power has concluded that building dams on rivers has led to the drying of Oroumiyeh ...

Abundant rainfall in Southeastern Iran has brought water back to Lake Hamoon after 15 years of dryness. Local people celebrated the event in and around the lake. With the rise of floods, the Sistan-Baluchistan Department of the Environment enlisted public assistance and began efforts to facilitate greater water accumulation in the lake. The department ...

TEHRAN Iran plans to enlist international organizations to save Lake Hamoun, Vice President Masoumeh Ebtekar announced on Thursday. In line with saving Hamoun, all existing capacities at the provincial, national, regional, and international levels will be used to resolve the problems of this wetland, Ebtekar, who is also the director of Irans Department ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian lawmaker voiced concern about the critical state of Hamoon Lake in southeast of the country, and called on neighboring Afghanistan to stand by its commitments to provide the necessary water flow to revive the drying lake. Kamaleddin Pir Moazzen, member of Iranian parliaments environment committee, said Hamoon Lake ...