ARMENIA TO HELP IRAN SAVE DRYING LAKE

armradio.am
02.08.2012 15:47

A senior Iranian official announced that Iran is enlisting Armenia’s
aid to resolve the rapid drying of Lake Oroumiyeh.

MohammadJavad Mohammadzadeh, the head of Iran’s Environment Protection
Organization, announced today that Iran and Armenia have agreed on
transferring water from Armenia to counter the critical fall in Lake
Oroumiyeh’s water levels, Eurasia Review reports.

He remarked that hot weather and a lack of precipitation have brought
the lake to its lowest water levels ever recorded.

Armenia and Iran recently signed an agreement to cooperate on
environmental projects.

Iran maintains that the drying of Lake Oroumiyeh would be a “national
environmental catastrophe” that could also have adverse effects on
neighbouring countries.

Iranian officials have reported that half of the lake, a surface area
of more than 3,000 square kilometres, has dried up and turned into
salt fields.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress