Lake Urmia Crisis and Roadmap for Ecological Restoration of Lake Urmia :
Document Type
Report
Volume
Tehran, Iran
Publisher
United Nations Development Program, Iranian Department of Environment and Kalantari Commission
Publication Date
2014
Abstract
The area and volume of Lake Urmia, like all salt lakes, is balanced by the amount of inflowing water. For hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, the lake was in balance with its water supply from the watershed, but recent increases in agricultural, industrial and municipal water withdrawals have disturbed the balance and the lake is drying up....
Recommended Citation
Wurtsbaugh, Wayne A.; Marden, Brad; and Micklin, Philip, "Lake Urmia Crisis and Roadmap for Ecological Restoration of Lake Urmia :" (2014). Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications. Paper 596.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/wats_facpub/596
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