{"id":86290,"date":"2026-02-06T12:56:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=86290"},"modified":"2026-02-06T14:37:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:07:35","slug":"lake-urmia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/lake-urmia\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Urmia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Lake Urmia Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, after the communal prayer in Tehran, the government mounts cloud seeding in the lake Urmia basin.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Lake Urmia<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is one of the largest <\/span><b>inland lakes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> located in <\/span><b>northwestern Iran.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its <\/span><b>waters have no outlet<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, they are <\/span><b>highly saline<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and it is one-fourth as salty as the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dead-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dead Sea.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The basin is <\/span><b>surrounded by mountains<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the west and north, by plateaus in the south, and by <\/span><b>plateaus and volcanic cones in the east.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located 4,183 feet <\/span><b>above sea level.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Source of Water:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The main water feeding this lake are the <\/span><b>Talkheh River in the northeast <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and the twin rivers <\/span><b>Zar\u012bneh and S\u012bm\u012bneh in the<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> south.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lake Urmia is home to a number of <\/span><b>diatoms, phytoplankton (algae). and bacteria.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Protection Status:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is designated as a <\/span><b>Ramsar Site<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and part of <\/span><b>UNESCO\u2019s Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB).<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/water\/great-drying\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DTE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Urmia is one of the largest inland lakes located in northwestern Iran. Read more about Lake Urmia, Location, Source, Protection Status, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":86287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5188,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-86290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-lake-urmia","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86290"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86335,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86290\/revisions\/86335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}