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Samira Safaee
Department of Geography and Geospatial Sciences, Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA
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Restoring Environmental Catastrophe in Iran; Lake Urmia
Author(s): Samira Safaee*
Lake Urmia, the second largest salt lake in the world, is located in the northwest of Iran between two provinces: West Azerbaijan and East Azerbaijan. Within the past 25 years, the lake has lost 95% of its water, causing experts to begin to warn about the serious future environmental, economic, and health consequences. This paper is based on a broad literature review to address the contributing factors and to discuss the impacts of those factors; point out the potential outcomes from environmental, wildlife, economic and health standpoints and offer various strategies to restore the lake. As a major finding, the human-related factor has the highest impact on the existing catastrophic condition of Lake Urmia (i.e., 80%-90%). Previous Iranian governments focused more on fanciful plans (e.g. seeding clouds and transporting water from the Caspian Sea) rather .. View more»