Lake Urmia in the north-western West Azarbaijan province started to dry up in the 2000s. The lake is the largest in West Asia and the sixth-largest salt lake in the world, with a water surface area of ...

“Lake Urmia was once the second largest salt lake in the world,” says Mann ... Today, what’s left is a vast, salty expanse of land with diminishing pools of water, beached boats and dusty salt clouds ...

LAKE URMIA Summertime bathers wade into waters colored ... he’s known for his craftsmanship in lashing together reeds into small balsa fishing boats using giant bulrushes called totora and ...

Iran announced a substantial rise in water levels at Lake Urmia, Northwestern Iran, nearly a decade after launching a large-scale restoration initiative aimed at preventing the lake from drying up.