Iran: decades of unsustainable water use has dried up lakes and caused environmental destruction

Salt storms are an emerging threat for millions of people in north-western Iran, thanks to the catastrophe of Lake Urmia. Once one of the world’s largest salt lakes, and still the country’s largest lake, Urmia is now barely a tenth of its former size.


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Source: Phys.org