These ecosystems play an important role in social, ecological and economic activities. For this study 3 cores approximately 100 m length from internal parts of the lake were taken and then calssimetery, granolometery, sem, xrd. Iran pour a a geomatics engineering, faculty of civil engineering and transportation, university of isfahan, isfahan, iran sabzfarideh, vnafisi, iranpour. Mohammad reza salehi, department of civil engineering, urmia university, 24 urmia lake bridge, west azerbaijan province, iran suggested citation. Another main problem is appearing a salt desert with area more than 5000 km2. East azerbaijan, urmia lake bridge, iran panoramio. Asia and lake urmia in iran, and comparisons including the general. Can water diplomacy enable a new future for the urmia lake. Effect of salinity originated from urmia lake water on some morphophysiological traits in zea mays l. Results of drying of urmia lake effects of urmia lake drought could be classified in ecological, health, social and economic problems. Employment in agriculture as a percentage of total employment stands at 19. This work and the related pdf file are licensed under a creative commons.
Urmia lake, located in northwestern iran, is an oligotrophic lake. Rearrange individual pages or entire files in the desired order. Reptiles the surrounding regions of urmia lake harbour several species of reptiles. The regional council for management of lake urmia basin will publish annual reports of its activities. Lake urmia, lake in northwestern iran that is the largest lake in the middle east. It is the largest lake in the middle east the location of lake urmia is at. The urmia lake restoration committee set up expert committees who made an action plan in 2014, which was approved. Introduction urumieh lake is the biggest suprasaturated lake of salt in the world. Lake urmia, one of the largest saltwater lakes on earth and a highly endangered ecosystem, is on the brink of a major environmental disaster. It is the largest lake inside iran, and the second biggest salt lake of the world.
Saving irans precious lake urmia scientific american blog. This oftenupdated app combines a large number of pdf files from your android device, as well as many other useful features. Journal of great lakes research 41 2015 307311 satellitebased gaugeadjusted climate record aghakouchak and. It covers an area that varies from 2,000 to 2,300 square miles 5,200 to 6,000 square km. Lake residents can use their knowledge of lake morphometry when deciding where to build a lakefront home, boathouse, or dock. Changes in area of lake urmia from october 1972 to august 2014, derived from landsat imagery. Pdf prediction of water level using monthly lagged data in. The climate change and human development in lake catchments placed these habitats in drying conditions such as aral sea in asia, lake chad in africa, lake mead in usa, lake urmia, etc. The effect of using computerassisted language learning call on. A number of activities including better water management throughout the basin, release of water from. The urmia lake started to change from a water body with a depth of 7.
Geologically, urmia lake is a relatively large tectonical and super saturated lake urmia formation age has been determined between 3040 thousand years ego jabbarlooye shabestari, 1995. The lagoon near the southern part of urmia lake rashakan region. Lake urmia or ormiyeh is one of the largest hypersaline lakes in the world and the habitat of a unique bisexual artemia species a. The fluctuations of physicochemical factors and phytoplankton. Some comments are made on bacteriological quality of the lake sediments. Prediction of water level using monthly lagged data in lake urmia, iran article pdf available in water resources management 30. Jan 23, 2015 lake urmia, iran 19722014 the results of this investigation, which recently appeared in the journal of great lakes research, revealed that in september 2014 the lakes surface area was about 12. Urmia lakes coastline that occurred between 2001 and 2011. At basin level, the regional council for management of lake urmia will be established. Unique ecosystem of the lake will be destroyed completely parallel with salt increase. List of archaebacteria and bacteria from the national park of urmia lake. Brief early warning, emerging issues and futures science diision world bank, 2017 what are the findings.
Brief early warning, emerging issues and futures lake. These are not necessarily in the public domain materials based on hubble space telescope data may be ed if they are not explicitly produced by the stsci. Located at an altitude of 1275 m above sea level, the lakes volume. Resilient approach toward urban development in lake. Irina bokova and 28 others lake urmia is drying up lake urmia, the largest lake in the middle east and one of the unique ecosystems of the world, is registered as biosphere reserve by unesco and listed as a wetland of international importance under the 1971 ramsar convention. Currently, the lake is named after the provincial capital city of urmia, originally an assyrian name meaning puddle of water. Urmia lake in northwest of iran, through the recent years has been extremely. Figure 2 shows a recent satellite image of the lake. However, in the early 1930s, it was called lake rezaiyeh after reza shah pahlavi.
Werrell the strategic position of iran, straddling the energythruway that is the strait of hormuz, bordering, among other nations, iraq, turkey, afghanistan and pakistan, and sitting a. Investigation of sedimentary controls on urmia lake using. Despite this, and several other values of the lake, little literature on it has been published. Pdf urmia lake was the second largest hypersaline lake in the world and the largest terminal lake in west asia prior to catastrophically losing. The lake and its islands are rich in wildlife including several varieties of birds and mammals such as flamingos and tigers.
Urmia lake also known as oroumieh lake is a shallow terminal lake located in northwest iran. Lake urmia simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Pdf prediction of water level using monthly lagged data. Lake orumiyeh national park lonp is one of these protected sites. In fact, this council will act as an implementation tool for the national committee. Basic functionality is available without a fee, while an adfree experience can be had with inapp purchases. The map above shows the location of urmia lake in iran. They play a major role in the food chain of urmia lake ecosystem. Urmia lake periodic waterlevel fluctuations show more significant correlation to. More than 400 gramlit national park since 1971 ramsar site since 1975 unesco biosphere reserve since 1976 you created this pdf from an application that is not licensed to print to. May 16, 2007 lake urmia or ormiyeh is one of the largest hypersaline lakes in the world and the habitat of a unique bisexual artemia species a.
Return to article details development and environment in urmia lake of iran download download pdf. Urmia lake has a maximum length of 140 km, its width ranges between 15 km and 50 km, and its surface area measures between 4750 and 6100 km2. Moreover, besides the previous dams built prior to the 1979 revolution, since 2000 more than 10 dams have been constructed on the urmia catchment rivers. Lake urmia lu is the second largest hypersaline lake in the world. It is in the provinces of east azarbaijan and west azarbaijan, and is southwest of the close shaped caspian sea. Cypriot journal of educational sciences volume, issue 2, 2018 3562. Speech by ambassador at the signing ceremony of the lake.
Sina khatami water resources engineering department lund institute of technology lth lund university spring 20 master thesis tvvr5012 issn11019824. Its maximum depth is 16 m and its average depth is 6 m 2,3. The drying of lake urmia as a case of the aralism concept in. If we were to use the same measures, it would take hundreds of billions of dollars. Urmia lake, sedimentology, hypersaline environemt, trasgressive and regressive. The present article documents the progress of the comanagement strategies for the application of fisheries resources in the amazon over the last 10 years, as has. Lake urmia basin, irans largest hypersaline water body, is located in northwest iran and covers an area of about 52 000 square kms figure 1. Werrell the strategic position of iran, straddling the energythruway that is the strait of hormuz, bordering, among other nations, iraq, turkey, afghanistan and pakistan, and sitting a mere 1,000 miles north. Urmia lake harbours a rich collection of archaebacteria and bacteria. Lake urmia, the second largest hypersaline lake by area in the world, has fluctuated in salinity over time, but in recent years, it has reached a maximum of 340 gl the lake is the main habitat. Iranian journal of fisheries sciences 93 368381 2010 the fluctuations of physicochemical factors and phytoplankton populations of urmia lake, iran. Nikolas katopodes professor of civil and environmental engineering, university of michigan usa 20 dr. Death of urmia lake, a silent disaster investigating of.
Agricultural water use agriculture is important to the economy around lake urmia. Like the dead sea, it is remarkable for the extreme salinity of its waters. It is less costly and more practical to save the habitat. Their communities might be faced with a possible threat of extinction due to unsuitable ecological conditions in urmia lake.
Lake urmia, water, climate and security in a volatile region francesco femia and caitlin e. Irans lake urmia was once the secondlargest saltwater lake in the world, covering more than 2,000 square miles at its deepest in the 1990s. Apr 29, 2011 in lake urmia area, northwestern iran, parthenogenetic artemia and the bisexual artemia urmiana gunther 1890 are found to occupy different ecological niches determined by salinity. Nov 12, 2019 irans lake urmia was once the secondlargest saltwater lake in the world, covering more than 2,000 square miles at its deepest in the 1990s. Ecosystem approach as a main strategy for urmia lake rescue. Urmia lake you created this pdf from an application that is not licensed to print to novapdf printer.
This file is licensed under the creative commons attributionshare alike 3. Integrated programme for sustainable water resources. Lonp sited in northwest of iran is the largest domestic lake in the country with a total area exceeding 4636 sq. Brief early warning, emerging issues and futures lake urmia.
A recent satellite image of the urmia lake, captured on july 26, 2015 showing the extent of. Mohammad bagher alezadeh 1, alireza pirzad 2, khadije babaei and taregh ghanifathi 3 1msc in agronomy and plant breeding, faculty of agriculture, university of urmia. More than 400 gramlit national park since 1971 ramsar site since 1975 unesco biosphere reserve since 1976 you created this pdf from an application that is not licensed. The lake is located between the provinces of east azerbaijan and west azerbaijan in iran, and west of the southern portion of the caspian sea. Dec 19, 2010 about 100 years ago, my grandfather emigrated to the united states from a village near lake urmia, in what is now northwestern iran. Lake urmias water level has dropped drastically from 1277. Most parts of the basin are located at altitudes above 1280 m and up to 4886 m above. Lake urmia has attracted a lot of attention and action from stakeholders at the local, national and international level. The urmia lake is one of the largest hypersaline lake of the world, with average 6 m depth and 5000 to 6000 km2 area, in azerbaijan, northwest of iran. Saving irans precious lake urmia scientific american.
Environmental imbalance in salt lake urmia, nw iran anthropogenic and climate impact on the largest lake in the middle east marine geology and geophysicsneptune rosenstiel school of marine and atmospheric science, university of miami atmospheric science iranian national institute for oceanography and agu20 gc54b07 isotope lab university of. Urmia lake watershed restoration in iran lund university. The urmia lake basin is a generally mountainous territory containing two of the famous iranian volcanic peaks sahand, 3707 m. Iran pour a a geomatics engineering, faculty of civil engineering and transportation, university of isfahan, isfahan, iran. Given the fluctuations of the lake over geological times, we thus hypothesized that species identification of artemia cysts, buried in the sediments, can provide information on lake conditions in the past. Signing ceremony of the lake urmia restoration project 2 i would like to briefly mention that japan has been continuously supporting the restoration of the lake since 2014, and in fact, this is the fifth time japan has contributed to the endeavors to revive lake urmia, a total of about 5 million u. Toward a sustainable restoration plan lake urmia s looming tragedy is a culminating manifestation of the consequences of uncoordinated, disintegrated water resources. Signing ceremony of the lake urmia restoration project 2 i would like to briefly mention that japan has been continuously supporting the restoration of the lake since 2014, and in fact, this is the fifth time japan has contributed to the endeavors to revive lake.
At its greatest extent, it was the largest lake in the middle east and the sixthlargest saltwater lake on earth, with a surface area of. Use of nasa logos, insignia and emblems is restricted per u. View of development and environment in urmia lake of iran. Lake urmias grim destiny reflects a wider trend of enviromental problems in iran, including an overreliance on dams, extreme weather patterns. Despite some limitations in the free edition of this app, including a maximum file size of 2. Lake urmia, located in northwestern iran at an altitude of 1270. Designing institutions for watershed management water alternatives. Sep 23, 2016 launched at the end of august, the i am lake urmia campaign is a grassroots effort to collect a million signatures to push the united nations to discuss ways to revive this salt lake, which.
In case of lake urmia, recognized as an international wetland in 1973, located in iran that is the second largest hyper. Its changeable area is about 5700 sqkm at northwestern part of iran samad alipour 2006. Environmental imbalance in salt lake urmia, nw iran. The urmia lake in northwest of iran, the worlds 2 nd largest saline lake, is being drying up mainly due to the mismanagement of water in the basin and reduction of flowing waters into the lake. Nonlinear chaotic and trend analyses of water level at urmia lake, iran does climate variability explain urmia lake depletion. Following the lifting of international nuclearrelated sanctions on iran, efforts aimed at restoring irans lake urmia are expected to accelerate. Brief early warning, emerging issues and futures science diision what hasis being done. Nonlinear chaotic and trend analyses of water level at. Effect of salinity originated from urmia lake water on. Table 1 includes the updated list of archaebacterial and bacterial species in the water, soil and mud of urmia lake. Update of biodiversity of the hypersaline urmia lake. Prediction of water level using monthly lagged data in lake urmia, iran.
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