Several South Azerbaijani parliament members have expressed in seperate occasions that the budget assigned for Lake Urmia saving program for the next year is insufficient. Mohammad Esmail Saidi, PM of Tabriz has said by this amount of budget Lake Urmia...
Provincial director of the Urmia Lake Recovery Program in West Azerbaijan said: the water level of the Urmia Lake decreased 21 cm in compare with the same period of last year. Farhad Sarkhosh stated that the water level of...
Nadir Gazipur (representative of Urmia in Iran parliament) was critisize the Iran Government about the indiferrent attidue on Lake Urmia. Arzerbaijani deputy give a question to Presendt Hassan Rouhania about Urmu Lake. He shared a question in the Gazipur formal...
Araz News: Rouhollah Hazratpour the representative of Azerbaijan people in Iran’s Parliament in an interview with the local media on June 5, 2017 sated,” according to recent statistics which shows Lake Urmia totally differ from what the inhabitants experience in...
Araz News: Environmental activist groups and Azerbaijan national activists have prepared banners in the graduation ceremony of Middle East Technical University ‘METU” that is one the best international university, to express their concern about the process of drying the lake...
Araz News: On 30 Jun 2017, Many social and south Azerbaijan national activists have started a campaign on Twitter to draw the attention of the Iranian regime to the Urmia Lake crisis. It should be noted that many well-known South...
Araz News: Lake Urmia is close to entering a dangerous state, so that a significant part of the lake has dried up while harvesting salt and truck traffic there have led to emerging salt dust in the region”, says the...
Araz News:Director of planning and integration of the revival of the Lake Urmia, criticized the Hassan Rouhani’s government for failing to meet its obligations and said: “Our contractors have abandoned the project since last September and October and in case...
Araz News: Wives of 12 ambassadors to Iran joined “I’m Lake Urmia” campaign, which aims to collect one million signatures required by the United Nation to help restore the lake. İt should be noted that the campaign was launched in...
Araz News:Drought crisis has hit South Azerbaijan’s most historic lake so hard that many environmentalists from different European and Asian countries who at the invitation of Rouhani’s government visited Tehran to find a possible solution, have no more any hope...
Araz News: Lake Urmia’s grim destiny reflects a wider trend of enviromental problems in Iran, including an over-reliance on dams, extreme weather patterns, climatic changes, poor irrigation practices and unregulated use of water. ong tucked away behind the mountains of northwest...
Araz News: The salty waters of South Azerbaijan’s Lake Urmia recently morphed from a deep green to a rich red, likely due to algae and bacteria blooms. Like the famous Aral Sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and the Salton Sea in California,...
Araz News: Member of Parliament from Urmia strongly emphasized the low budget in restoring Lake Urmia in Iran Parliament on June 22, 2016 . He stated that due to the onset of warm season and more using water for agriculture it’s remarkable that...
Araz News: Leonardo DiCaprio well-known Hollywood actor shared a photograph of the Lake Urmia in his Instagram page and expressed his concern about the process of drying the lake Urmia on 5th of May. He demanded world attention to the issue...
Araz News: Several years of efforts and protests of national-civil activists of South Azerbaijan people to persuade the Iranian government to restore Lake Urmia has inconclusived. A group of South Azerbaijan people gathered and formed human chain once again to bring...
