World’s third-largest salt-water lake at risk of drying up

Jun 20, 2011

Iran's Oroumieh Lake is in crisis. Dams and upstream diversions have lowered water levels of the world's third-largest salt-water lake by a staggering 60 percent. To save this vanishing lake, officials are moving forward with a three-part strategy to bring life back to it. But the plan has been accused of sidestepping the real source of the problem.