Orumiyeh Lake and Therapeutic Effects with Environment Protect

Abstract

Orumiyeh lake has been designated as an international park by the UN.The water of this lake, containing natural salts and muds is used by patients who suffer of dermal and rheumatic troubles. This lake is one of the largest permanent saltwater lake in the world, which is located within the catchment area of the North West of Iran. This paper aims to investigate the importance of the pond and management and planning for protection of Orumiyeh lake, with therapeutic and touristy view to lake . Orumiyeh lake is converting to a wide area of salt marsh due to natural hazards, such as drought and water scarcity, and also due to humanitarian reasons, such as running social and economic projects like construction of Shahid Kalantari highway over the lake or building numerous dams, the entrance of animal and human sewage, performing developmental activities, drilling deep wells around the lake and so on. Of course! the officials are following and performing some methods to reduce these destructions, but the drought is so high that it seems many experts cannot deal with it quickly. A recent study, demonstrated that 65% of the decline was from changes in inflow caused by climate change and diversion of surface water.However , this lake has therapeutic effects in dermatologic and