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Environmental management in Urmia Lake: thresholds approach

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  • Fatemeh Ghobadi Hamzekhani
  • Bahram Saghafian
  • Shahab Araghinejad

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Urmia Lake is a vivid example of negligence in providing the environmental water requirement rooted in prolonged droughts and excessive upstream water withdrawal. The aim of this study is to propose a reclamation strategy for the lake by focusing on estimation of environmental requirement thresholds under various drought severity conditions. On the average, the lake will remain in a moderate hydrological drought condition if the business-as-usual scenario prevails. The shares of natural drought, water withdrawals and water resources development projects (i.e. dams) in recent lake inflow reduction are estimated at 45%, 40% and 15%, respectively; thus, the aggregated contribution of human-induced factors has a more significant impact on the current lake condition than that of natural drought, and a firm and consistent approach to reduce water consumption by the agricultural sector is required for lake reclamation.

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  • Fatemeh Ghobadi Hamzekhani & Bahram Saghafian & Shahab Araghinejad, 2016. "Environmental management in Urmia Lake: thresholds approach," International Journal of Water Resources Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(1), pages 77-88, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cijwxx:v:32:y:2016:i:1:p:77-88
    DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2015.1024829
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