#100: Lake Urmia basin

Lake Urmia has been dried significantly in the last two decades, and the problem is mainly attributed to  agricultural water use (over-allocation to agriculture). The Ministry of Water has been responsible for

Water management refers to the activities of analysing and monitoring water resources, as well as developing and implementing measures to keep the state of a water resource within what has been negotiated as desirable bounds (Pahl-Wostl, 2015).

Pahl-Wostl, C. (2015). Water Governance in the Face of Global Change—From Understanding to Transformation. Wiesbaden: Springer International Publishing.

, and the Ministry of Agriculture has been responsible for agricultural production. The Urmia Lake Restoration Program, established in 2013, targeted the restoration of the lake by coordinating all activities over the basin which can directly or indirectly influence the water flows into the lake.