Desiccation of Urmiasea
Desiccation of Urmiasea
At approximately 4,250 km², Lake Urmia was still eight times the size of Lake Constance in 2003. By 2015, however, it had shrunk to roughly 10 percent of its original area. Local, national and international initiatives and programmes have increasingly addressed the problem of desiccation and the resulting consequences. The first positive effects of the initiated measures were already apparent in 2016. In situations like this, information products created usind data acquired by Earth observation satellites, such as the Global WaterPack, can provide important information bases for future planning.
