MNA The chief of Irans Department of Environment (DoE) said that it is possible to transfer the additional water of Lake Van in Turkey to Lake Urmia in Iran. DoE Chief Isa Kalantari said in a meeting with Turkish Ambassador to Tehran Derya Ors that there is a possibility to transfer the additional water of Lake Van, the largest lake in the far ...

TEHRAN, Jul. 29 (MNA) A Ministry of Energy official has said Lake Urmia water absorption has now exceeded 3bn cubic meters. Gholamreza Hashemi told reporters on Thursday that the amount of water had been up 1bn cubic meters compared to that in the same time last year; precipitation this year has been so far 345 milliliters, which shows a rise ...

TEHRAN, Dec. 30 (MNA) Research and study of the project of transferring water from Caspian Sea to Lake Urmia is assigned to a Norwegian company. Isa Bozorgzadeh, research executive in Organization of Water and Energy Resources Development, announced that Iran has been negotiating with the group 'Research Sector' under the supervision of Akvaplan ...

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 ...

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Baku. Shamil Alibeyli APA. Iran and Azerbaijan have been cooperating in the use of the Araz River for more than 42 years and there is an agreement on the use of water resources of this river. I should say that Iran is using only its own water resources of the Araz River for the transfer. The Azerbaijani side has given consent on this issue, as both ...