Oroumieh Lake, Iran's Largest, Turning To Salt (PHOTOS)

[iwishiwas]

The photos at the bottom of the article are astonishing.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/25/oroumieh-lake-irans-largest-salt_n_866656.html#s283206&title=Mideast_Iran_Environment




Oroumieh Lake, Iran's Largest, Turning To Salt (PHOTOS)

Posted: 05-25-11 09:12 AM

Environment , Nature , Iran Oroumieh , Lake Turns To Salt , Largest Salt Lake , Oroumieh Iran , Oroumieh Lake , Orumieh Lake , Urmia Iran , Urmia Lake , Green News

OROUMIEH LAKE, Iran (AP) -- From a hillside, Kamal Saadat looked forlornly at hundreds of potential customers, knowing he could not take them for trips in his boat to enjoy a spring weekend on picturesque Oroumieh Lake, the third largest saltwater lake on earth.

"Look, the boat is stuck... It cannot move anymore," said Saadat, gesturing to where it lay encased by solidifying salt and lamenting that he could not understand why the lake was fading away.

The long popular lake, home to migrating flamingos, pelicans and gulls, has shrunken by 60 percent and could disappear entirely in just a few years, experts say - drained by drought, misguided irrigation policies, development and the damming of rivers that feed it...................

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Sounds sooo familiar." - Ms. Lot (R)

[ananda]

2. Unrecced for citing HuffPo.

nt

[Poll_Blind]

4. Canceled. n/t

PB

[Generic Other]

5. stupidest unrec ever

Plug your ears and close your eyes. Lock the doors! Hide under the bed. Huffpost will huff and puff and blow your BRAIN AWAY!

[dipsydoodle]

3. Same happening with the Dead Sea

Some details here : http://www.grid.unep.ch/activities/global_change/deadsea.php

[WhiteTara]

6. And the Aural Sea is already gone.

BTW those pics reminded me of Sodom and Gomorrah. Was that Lot's wife I see?