By the end of this year, Lake Urmia may disappear from the card, Yasser Rakhbardin said, head of the regional water company Western Azerbaijan province, believing that if urgent steps to restore the lake will not be taken to restore the lake, then the urming will dry completely, writes “Caucasian Herald” .
Clean salt lake in the north of Iran, the largest in the Middle East, over the past two decades, lost 95% of the volume of water. According to the Iranian official, the water level in comparison with the same period last year decreased by another twice. It is not known how to spend the funds allocated from the Iranian budget to solve the problem. Thus, the center for the restoration of Lake Urmia received 15 billion fogs from the state, but there is no information about what the money was spent.
Iranian parliamentarian from the city of Urmia Salman Zakir also believes that no serious measures for the restoration of the lake is not being taken. If sometimes there is a temporary improvement in the situation, then it is explained only by the fallout of precipitation.
Ecological crisis expert, a member of the Environmental Risk Association and Sustainable Development of Iran Magomedrz Makhbugfar criticized the Ministry of Energy of the Islamic Republic. According to the expert, the ministry did not restrain his promise to solve the problem of Lake Urmia.
The publication reminds that the Ethnic Azerbaijanis is mostly affected by the urmia lake, compactly residing in this region. Among the Azerbaijani activists Iran has the opinion that the government is purposefully solving the problem of the lake, since it contributes to the outcome of Azerbaijanis from their compact accommodations.