Southern Azerbaijan: The Condition of Lake Orumiyeh is Alarming
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization / Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organi
04-Oct-2011

Destructive policies of the Iranian Regime have allegedly caused more than 60% of Lake Orumiyeh in the Western Azerbaijan region to dry. Neighboring countries will face the destruction caused by salt tsunamis.

Below is an article published by Gamoh, SANAM

Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, says that “the Lake Orumiyeh naturally dries every five hundred years." However, scientists doing research on the lake bed have discovered that this vast salt lake has not dried a single time in the past twenty seven thousand years. This shows that Ahmadinejad is talking in accordance with neither logic nor science.

Scientists studying behavior of lakes say that only those lakes which cause destruction to the community by uncontrolled flooding need to be controlled by constructing dams. The Orumiyeh Lake has not caused any flooding; it is in fact dying due to lack of water. However, the Iranian Regime is defying logic and science by having already created twenty nine dams and in the process of creating many more on the water routes which feed Lake Orumiyeh. Research by  scientists prove that one of the most important causes of the drying of Lake Orumiyeh is due to the unscientific construction of dams which stop the flow of many water routes to the lake.

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