If the 20th century can be called “the Age of Oil” the 21st century can become “the Age of Water”. As the population grows and agricultural development expands, water consumption also increases. And while certain countries suffer from floods, a...
Azerbaijanis are taking various symbolic steps to take the attention of the world and the Iranian regime to the Urmuia Lake crisis. Two young cyclists from the eastern part of southern Azerbaijan pedaled in the capital of Azerbaijan to support...
Lake Urmia, which is situated in Iran and is one of the largest lakes in the Middle East, is consistently monitored by a number of environmentalists and activists from various countries. Unfortunately, the lake has drawn the attention due to...
Majid Hudabash, the governor of East Azerbaijan, said the Iranian government did not have a budget to revive Urmu Lake and that its hopes remained on credit and foreign financing. In an interview with the “Young Journalists'” Correspondent, the governor...
Sustainable management of water resources in the Lake Urmu basin is conducted by Urmu Lake Animation Center with financial support of the Japanese Government. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has issued an official statement on this issue. On...
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...
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: 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: 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: 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...
Araz News: Mohsen Jalalpur, head of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce, said that using the water of Urmia lake is about two billion dollars worth of goods produced. He said the water was pouring into the lake has been prevented and the...
Hossein Akhani, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Lake Urmia, the second largest hyper saline lake in Eurasia, is located in a closed-continental drainage basin in northwest Iran. In the past, the lake had a rich biodiversity that included numerous migratory...
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:Esmaeil Jabbarzadeh at a meeting of the Administrative Council of East Azerbaijan Province was held in the presence of the head of the Environmental Protection Agency calls for more attention to “Azerbaijani Turkish “referring to the unique features of...
