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205462
Tue, 09/06/2011 - 10:29
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Iran Working Hard to Save Third Largest Saltwater Lake on Earth
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's First Vice-President Mohammad Reza Rahimi announced on Monday that government has plans to save the dying lake of Orumiyeh in the Northwestern parts of the country.
One of the plans is to use Iran's share of the Aras river to pump it to the lake in the first six months of the year (starting from March 21 according to Iranian calendar), Rahimi said.
The Aras river is located in and along the countries of Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey.
Rahimi said the government is also considering other ways to inject water to the lake.
Recently, some local officials in Orumiyeh and Tabriz, capitals of Iran's West and East Azerbaijan provinces respectively, have expressed concerns about the environmental disaster due to the shrinkage of the lake, and have called on the government to save it to prevent the environmental degradation of the body of water.
Located in Northwestern Iran between the provinces of East and West Azerbaijan and near Iran's border with Turkey, Orumiyeh is the largest lake in the Middle East and the third largest saltwater lake on Earth.
A UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and a Ramsar (an international treaty for the protection of wetlands) site said, the lake has shrunk considerably in the past years and could disappear entirely.
One of the plans is to use Iran's share of the Aras river to pump it to the lake in the first six months of the year (starting from March 21 according to Iranian calendar), Rahimi said.
The Aras river is located in and along the countries of Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey.
Rahimi said the government is also considering other ways to inject water to the lake.
Recently, some local officials in Orumiyeh and Tabriz, capitals of Iran's West and East Azerbaijan provinces respectively, have expressed concerns about the environmental disaster due to the shrinkage of the lake, and have called on the government to save it to prevent the environmental degradation of the body of water.
Located in Northwestern Iran between the provinces of East and West Azerbaijan and near Iran's border with Turkey, Orumiyeh is the largest lake in the Middle East and the third largest saltwater lake on Earth.
A UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and a Ramsar (an international treaty for the protection of wetlands) site said, the lake has shrunk considerably in the past years and could disappear entirely.
