By News.Az The proposal to redirect the Araz River towards the Lake Urmia (Iran, West Azerbaijan province) includes not only environmental, but also political aspect. This was stated by Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Huseyn Bagirov at International Exhibition on Environmental Protection "Caspian: Technologies for the environment". "If ...

By Trend Using water from the River Araz to fill drought stricken Lake Urmia in Iran will have a negative impact on the Azerbaijani ecology, chairman of the State Committee for Land and Cartography Garib Mammadov told Trend today. Changing a channel of the River Araz cannot be a topic for discussion, he said. This will negatively affect those ...

By Trend The issue of using water from the River Araz to fill drought stricken Lake Urmia will be discussed with Azerbaijan. Afterwards, a project will be implemented within the agreements, general director of the Trans boundary Rivers and Shared Water Resources Bureau under the Iranian Ministry of Energy Jabbar Vatanfada told ?RNA today. "We ...