Iran faces water crisis: LAKE URMIA dries away

Iran faces water crisis: LAKE URMIA dries away

Posted by Unknown on Friday, 31 January 2014 0

LAKE URMIA, Iran — After driving for 15 minutes over the base of what was once Iran's biggest lake, a neighborhood ecological authority ventures out of his truck, pushed his hands into his pockets and noiselessly meandered into the incredible dry plain, as though scanning for water he knew he might never find.

Simply a hour prior, on an icy winter day here in western Iran, the official, Hamid Ranaghadr, had reviewed how as of late as a decade back, tourist ships loaded with voyagers roamed the lake's waters in pursuit of groups of relocating flamingos.

Right away, the boats are rusting in the mud and the flamingos fly over the stays of the lake on their approach to additional accommodating districts. Consistent with figures incorporated by the neighborhood ecological office, just 5 percent of the water remains.

Iran is confronting a water crisis conceivably so genuine that authorities are making alternate arrangements for proportioning in the more stupendous Tehran territory, home to 22 million, and other significant urban communities around the nation.

President Hassan Rouhani has distinguished water as a national security issue, and openly talks in ranges struck hardest by the lack he is guaranteeing to "bring the water back”.