Urmia Lake Water Down 42% YOY

The volume of water in Urmia Lake at the end of the previous water year (September 2020), according to the data released by the Iran Water Resources Management Company, has reached 2.73 billion cubic meters, which shows a decrease of 42% compared to the earlier water year.
The current volume of water in the lake is 2 bcm less than the same time of last year, the Energy Ministry’s news website Paven reported.
The decline in the lake’s water is largely due to the lack of precipitation in the last water year, which was one of the driest in the past 50 years.