Araz News: Iran vice-president at a meeting of the Administrative Council in East Azerbaijan said:’ The greatest effect of salt dust of Lake Urmia observed in Tabriz and nearby towns.’ Ms. Masoumeh Ebtekar at a meeting of the Administrative Council in East...
Araz News: The UN Resident Coordinator in Iran Mr. Gary Lewis with the release of an article to review Hamouns wetlands and Lake Urmia stated that ,there is no possibility to return lake Urmia to its glory days but we can...
Araz News: On 16 November 2015, Prof. Dr. Klaus Buchner MEP (Greens/EFA), the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) and the Southern Azerbaijan Alliance will convene a conference entitled ‘Lake Urmia – Humanitarian and Environmental Disaster in Iran’ at the European...
Araz News:The lake Urmia was once the sixth largest salt water body in the world, and the largest lake in the Middle East. But the lake has shrunk in recent years due to bad management, including the development of a...
Araz News: As the environmental catastrophe of Lake Urmia’s gradual demise and dramatic shrinkage of up to 90% remains unaddressed and systematically disregarded by the Iranian government, a large group of activists from different parts of Iran gathered at the Urmia...
Araz News: on Tuesday 28 July, Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian said:”Iran will not start transferring water from the Caspian Sea to revive drying Lake Urmia, as long as the environmental concerns on the project are not removed.”, Trend agency reported. He...
Araz News: The effects environmental crisis in and surrounding Lake Urmia has are spreading to the wider region and causing concern for not only in northern Iran, which is inhabited mostly by ethnic Azerbaijani-Turks, but for the Republic of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia,...
Araz News: A South Azerbaijani Woman in a symbolic way in order to attract attention of people and Inattention of Authorities for drying up Lake Urmia sewed the picture of red fish on tens of meters in length on a white...
Araz News: An Iranian university teacher claims that Urmia Lake has been dried intentionally as a part of Iran Nuclear Project. Urmia Lake, which is the biggest lake of South Azerbaijan, is gasping its life out. According to the statement...
Araz News: Head of Water Resources of Osku city informed people about to begin operations of transferring waste water of Tabriz to Aji Chay River for saving Lake Urmia According to the report of The Public Relations Department of Regional...
A two-day workshop on a case study using the Water Diplomacy Framework. July 02-03, 2015 at Tufts University and MIT. Urmia Lake is the largest inland saline lake in Iran and is one of the most valuable aquatic ecosystems in...
Araz News: Salt particles emerging from drying Lake Urmia, in northwestern Iran, are causes of cancer and high blood pressure among people in the region, said Armin Nourbakhsh, an official with the Committee for Urmia Lake Restoration. Salt particles threaten...
Araz News: The Japanese ambassador of Iran visited Sharif University in Tehran and he stated that japan is ready to help to find solutions to overcome the critical situation of the Lake Urmia Japanese ambassador Mr. Koji Haneda with Political Secretary of...
Araz News : The Iranian government has allocated 21 trillion rials (close to $730 million) for the current Iranian fiscal year (which started May 20) to operations of restoring Lake Urmia, Trend Agency reported. Issa Kalantari, secretary of Lake Urmia Restoration...
Araz News via trend:Iranian Minister of Cooperative, Labor, and Social Welfare Ali Rabiei has expressed hope that the country would be able to import water from Georgia. There are many water resources in Georgia which would be influential in tackling...
