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 ...

Tehran, April 22, IRNA - Excessive use of natural resources has caused Orumieh Lake to dry up, said the director general of East Azarbaijan provinces Department of Environment. Speaking in a meeting with members of the Headquarters for Reviving Orumieh Lake and a provincial workgroup, Hassan Abbasnejad added that human, natural and genetic resources ...

Baku. Real Jafarli APA. Saving Urmia lake with the water of Araz River is a pretext, Head of the Iranian West Azerbaijan Province's Environment Organization Hassan Abbasnejad said,APAreports citing ISNA. To him, the project on transferring the water of Araz River into Urmia lake is realized only to develop agriculture, mastery and tourism: Dont the ...