Environmental impacts of desalination and brine treatment-Challenges and mitigation measures

A Panagopoulos, KJ Haralambous - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2020 - Elsevier
Desalination is perceived as an effective and reliable process for obtaining freshwater from
aqueous saline solutions such as brackish water, seawater and brine. This can be clarified …

40-years of Lake Urmia restoration research: Review, synthesis and next steps

M Parsinejad, DE Rosenberg, YAG Ghale… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Public concern over environmental issues such as ecosystem degradation is high. However,
restoring coupled human-natural systems requires integration across many science …

Climatic or regionally induced by humans? Tracing hydro-climatic and land-use changes to better understand the Lake Urmia tragedy

B Khazaei, S Khatami, SH Alemohammad, L Rashidi… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Lake Urmia—a shallow endemic hypersaline lake in northwest Iran—has undergone a
dramatic decline in its water level (WL), by about 8 m, since 1995. The primary cause of the …

Aral Sea syndrome desiccates Lake Urmia: call for action

A AghaKouchak, H Norouzi, K Madani, A Mirchi… - Journal of Great Lakes …, 2015 - Elsevier
Lake Urmia, one of the largest saltwater lakes on earth and a highly endangered ecosystem,
is on the brink of a major environmental disaster similar to the catastrophic death of the Aral …

Climate change or irrigated agriculture–what drives the water level decline of Lake Urmia

S Schulz, S Darehshouri, E Hassanzadeh, M Tajrishy… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Lake Urmia is one of the largest hypersaline lakes on earth with a unique biodiversity. Over
the past two decades the lake water level declined dramatically, threatening the functionality …

A spaceborne multisensor approach to monitor the desiccation of Lake Urmia in Iran

MJ Tourian, O Elmi, Q Chen, B Devaraju… - Remote Sensing of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Lake Urmia, a hypersaline lake in northwestern Iran, is under threat of drying up. The high
importance of the lake's watershed for human life demands a comprehensive monitoring of …

A deep learning convolutional neural network algorithm for detecting saline flow sources and mapping the environmental impacts of the Urmia Lake drought in Iran

B Feizizadeh, MK Garajeh, T Lakes, T Blaschke - Catena, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Urmia Lake in Northern Iran is drying up, which is causing significant environmental
problems in the region, including saline storms that devastate agricultural land. We …

[HTML][HTML] Hybridization of artificial intelligence models with nature inspired optimization algorithms for lake water level prediction and uncertainty analysis

M Ehteram, A Ferdowsi, M Faramarzpour… - Alexandria Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the present study, an improved adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) and
multilayer perceptron (MLP) models are hybridized with a sunflower optimization (SO) …

Impacts of climate change and water resources development on the declining inflow into Iran's Urmia Lake

S Shadkam, F Ludwig, P van Oel, Ç Kirmit… - Journal of Great Lakes …, 2016 - Elsevier
Urmia Lake, the world's second largest hypersaline lake, has decreased in size over recent
decades primarily because inflow has diminished. This has caused serious socio …

The Lake Urmia environmental disaster in Iran: A look at aerosol pollution

AH Mardi, A Khaghani, AB MacDonald… - Science of The Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Lake Urmia (LU) once was the second largest hypersaline lake in the world, covering up to
6000 km 2, but has undergone catastrophic desiccation in recent years resulting in loss of …