Lake Urmia Environmental Disaster - Iran
A view shows dry reeds on the dry bed of Lake Urmia in northwestern Iran on December 20, 2025. Lake Urmia, once the largest lake in the Middle East, has dramatically shrunk due to prolonged drought, the damming of rivers feeding the lake, and extensive groundwater extraction in the surrounding area. Although increased rainfall and water diversion briefly helped restore water levels in 2019, renewed drought and administrative mismanagement in the early 2020s reversed the trend, and satellite imagery shows the lake has almost entirely dried up by September 2025. Photo by Morteza Aminoroayayi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM
- Product Code
- ILEA005017005
- Registered date
- 2025/12/20 00:00:00
- Credit
- Abaca Press / Kyodo News Images
- Media source
- Middle East Images/ABACA
- Media size
- 5650 × 3767 pixel
- Resolution
- 72 dpi
- Deployment size
- 4.23(MB)*
- Special instruction
*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.
