je.st
news
As lakes become deserts, drought is Iran's new problem
2015-03-21 07:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Nazar Sarani's village in southeast Iran was once an island. It is now a desert, a casualty of the country's worsening water crisis. "We live in the dust," said the 54-year-old cattle herder of his home in the once exceptional biosphere of Lake Hamoun, a wetland of varied flora and fauna, which is now nothing but sand-baked earth. Climate change, with less rainfall each year, is blamed, but so too is human error and government mismanagement. Iran's reservoirs are only 40 percent full according...
Tags: new
problem
lakes
drought
Category:Electronics and Electrical