Lake Urmia in Iran is slowly drying up; gathering on the 2rd of April to raise awareness

Report video: Urmu Gölü quruyor (kuruyor in Turkish) is Azeri for "Lake Urmia is drying up", and the rest of the poster says that there will be a gathering on the 3rd of April. Doing a bit more searching turned up this Facebook group, and a notice that a gathering in Ankara will take place on the 3rd in front of the Azerbaijan Cultural Association (Azerbaycan Kültür Derneği) to raise awareness.

The lake itself is located here in northwestern Iran where all the Azeris live:

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Seoul,+South+Korea&ll=3...

At least the lake isn't on the border between two countries like the Aral Sea is:

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Seoul,+South+Korea&t=h&...

What you see there used to be a single lake:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__e2VLp6gwyk/S7Sx585kN5I/AAAAAAAAF-o/Lnii2dik5Ps/s16...

Due to being located between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan it may have made it easy to blame the other side and ignore one's own responsibility (because why should we reduce our water consumption when the other side uses it as much as they want? - as the argument goes) over the past decades, whereas Lake Urmia is located entirely within Iran and its fate depends solely on the actions of a single nation. A gif here shows Lake Urmia over a similar period of time, and though there's definite drying it's thankfully not nearly as drastic as the Aral Sea.

http://www.pagef30.com/2010/04/lake-urmia-in-iran-is-slowly-drying-up.html

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[adminjohn]

خامنه‌ای احمق چشمهای کورت را باز کن این اعتراضات به خاطر ظلم و بی‌ عدالتی است که به این مردم در این ۳۰ سال شده است، و حالا هیچ راه نجاتی نیست.

مرگ بر جمهوری اسلامی

مرگ بر خامنه ای شيطان و مفسد فی الارض

[imaxxx2008]

درود بر جنبش سبز و مردم آذربایجان. با قدرت ادامه دهید.

[Mrgraywolves1]

Support to South Azerbaijani brothers from North Azerbaijan.We are next to them forever,believe and know it.We will unite soon.One nation,one state,United Azerbaijan.Long live United Azerbaijan!!!

Fuck persian chauvinism!!!

Long live turkic power in the world!!!

Azerbaycan var olsun,istemeyen kor olsun!!!

[IranSepahbod]

@rezakhan51

fuck turk chauvinism and death to their father israel.

[mahkelkae]

F.U Rostam8888, there is no Iran without Azerbaijan. Azeri people are not racists, we are just after our rights, we actually don't give a F. to you persian people. who do you think you are, whole world knows what worthless you are. ( Yashasin Azerbaijan, ve Azerilar).

[iguard23]

@xvassago - Thanks for showing us that you're a racist idiot. And I'm not armenian you fag. I'm actually Iranian azeri-turk. So go F yourself.

[xvassago]

@iguard23  <<<<<<< this is fake armenian bitch

[futerflash2]

TITLE FAIL! idiots its 2nd... not 2rd

[19TURLOCK79]

WoW !!! all i can say is WoW

[rezakhan51]

fuck you rostam8888 long live for azarbaijan.we are not suporting fucking shovonism.long long live for azari and azarbaijan without fuckink fars shovonism.

[Rostam8888]

there is no azarbayjan without Iran , tarverdiaraz. forget to get apart azarbayejan from iran dont be so idiot and dont be trickt by mullas they are iran enemies. cho iran nabashad tan man nabad bedin bum o bar zendeh jek tan mabad