Orumiyeh: Sept 22, IRNA - Japanese Ambassador to Tehran Kuji Haneda said on Monday that the huge amount of salt at Orumiyeh lake could play significant role in the economic development of the West Azarbaijan province. The Japanese ambassador made the remarks in a meeting with Governor-General of West Azarbaijan Ghorbanali Sa'adat on Monday. The salt ...

Iranian government continues measures on tackling with the shoaling problem of the Lake Urmia that is experiencing its worst drought condition for many years. An Iranian official has said the administration allocated 3.7 billion rials (about $139 million based on official rate of 26,600 rials per $1) to implement projects aimed at revival of Lake ...

TEHRAN, Feb. 3 (MNA) The head of Irans desk in a Japanese institute has said a team of experts will visit Lake Urmia in next April. Mrs. Nakamura, who heads aJapan International Cooperation Agency(JICA) expert delegation to Iran, in a meeting with the West Azerbaijan Agricultural Jihad Provincial Office wetlands experts told that the delegation ...

TEHRAN, Jan. 15 (MNA) Parliament environmentalist faction spokesman has said Parliament allocates $ 17m to save Lake Urmia. Moayyed Hosseini Sadr told Mehr News Parliament correspondent that 32 work plan had been proposed to the Parliament as possible ways to save Lake Urmia. Special budget drafts were also proposed to save Lakes Urmia and Hamun,...

Tehran, Oct 27, IRNA The United Nations Resident Coordinator Gary Lewis has proposed ways to prevent the death of the worlds largest slatwater lake, the Lake of Orumiyeh. The UN Information Center (UNIC) to Tehran quoted the official in a press release on Sunday as noting in a report that the slow death of the Lake Orumiyeh signals a warning for ...