Shrinkage of Caspian Sea Is Not Slowing

The Caspian Sea has been shrinking since 1995 and the trend is not expected to end in the foreseeable future due to a variety of reasons, namely rising temperatures linked to global warming and climate change, head of the National Center for Research and Studies of the Caspian Sea, affiliated to the Energy Ministry Water Research Center (WRC), said. 
“The 150-centimeter drop in water level (over the last three decades) is also due to evaporation, low precipitation and steep decline in water flow into the lake from rivers that discharge into the earth's largest inland body of water,” Masoumeh Banihashemi was quoted as saying by IRNA.
Water level has been of the descending order over the past 30 years and several programs to slow or control the crisis have been futile, she warned.