Urmia Lake

To help transfer more reclaimed wastewater to Urmia Lake, the third phase of the sewage treatment plant in Urmia, West Azarbaijan Province, will become operational in June, director of the…

Urmia Lake’s water level is currently 1,270 meters, down 49 centimeters compared to last year’s level, the head of Integrated Water Resources Management Department at the Energy Ministry said.…

Urmia Lake holds 1 billion cubic meters of water, which is 32 bcm lower compared to 1996 when it stored 33 bcm, an environment and water expert said.

The project to transfer water from Kanisib Dam to Urmia Lake via a tunnel is near completion and will be launched in February 2023. Costing more than $75 million, the project includes a 36-km…

Amid the crushing disappointment of Lake Urmia’s gradual disappearance, a wastewater development project in Tabriz, East Azarbaijan Province, is about to offer a ray of hope to revive the…

The first phase of a plan to transfer reclaimed sewage from Tabriz wastewater treatment plant to Urmia Lake has become operational, the governor general of East Azarbaijan Province said.

Cracks have appeared in a tunnel that was slated to transfer water from Kanisib Dam in Piranshahr, West Azarbaijan Province, to Urmia Lake, the head of Iran Water and Power Resources Development…

The water transfer project from Kanisib Dam in Piranshahr, West Azarbaijan Province, is one of the measures to revive Urmia Lake, which will become operational in the coming months, deputy…

Urmia Lake’s water level is currently 1,270 meters, down 53 centimeters compared to last year’s level, the head of Integrated Water Resources Management Department at the Energy Ministry said.…

Surveys conducted by foreign research centers in collaboration with domestic firms have shown that diverting water from the Caspian Sea in the north to Lake Urmia, Iran's largest salt lake in…

Transferring reclaimed wastewater to Urmia Lake is a practical solution without environmental costs, which can help revive the troubled inland water body, the head of West Azarbaijan Water and…

Water from four dams in West Azarbaijan Province has been released to shore up Lake Urmia, the provincial Regional Water Company’s deputy of protection and operation said.

The annual water share of the troubled Lake Urmia is 3.4 billion cubic meters, but since the beginning of the current water year (started Sept. 23, 2021), it has received less than 600 million…

The second phase of the wastewater treatment plant in Tabriz, East Azarbaijan Province, will help raise the inflow of treated wastewater to the troubled Urmia Lake by 150%, director of the…

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…

The water level of Urmia Lake is currently 1,271.16 meters, which is 60 centimeters lower than last year’s level, the head of Urmia Lake Catchment Area said.

The project to divert water from Zab River, along the distressed Urmia Lake in the northwest, is expected to come on stream in summer, the Urmia Lake Restoration Project manager and director of…

Iran's once rich ecosystem has become a victim of ill-advised and harmful decisions in the past four decades and those in charge must be held accountable for the devastation of natural resources…

In an ongoing joint scientific study, hydrologists from Iran and the US have set new objectives to revive the troubled Urmia Lake straddling the provinces of East and West Azarbaijan -- one of…

The water level in Iran’s largest inland body of water (Lake Urmia) which was showed marked improvement in 2020, is falling, head of the Urmia Lake Restoration Project said.  “The current…

With programs to revive Urmia Lake moving ahead, seven billion cubic meters of water from dams flowed into the world famous lake in the past decade and is increasing, head of Urmia Lake…

The project to divert water from Zab River along the western borders to the distressed Lake Urmia in the northwest is almost complete and is expected to come on stream in December, director of…

Effective programs have been implemented to revive the troubled Urmia Lake and environment officials in East and West Azarbaijan province hope Iran’s largest inland body of water should reach…

Completion of the second phase of a wastewater treatment plant in Tabriz, East Azarbaijan Province, will help supply four cubic meters of water per second to Lake Urmia or 125 million cubic…

Construction of Nazlou Chay and Barandouz Chay dams in Urmia, West Azarbaijan Province, which was halted to stop the drying up of Lake Urmia, will restart soon reportedly after a direct order…