performance of Iran on the environment of Urmia Lake in the light of Ramsar Convention

The environment of earth as a place for human life and other creatures is very important. The increasing growth of pollutants and destructive factors of environment as well as the occurrences ofrepeated environmental crisis have caused governments to seriously prowl and think about alternativesfrom four decades ago. In this way, so far about 280 regional-international treaties and agreements have been signed on the environmental protection. One of the most influential factors on the environment is water environment. The issue of water environment and generally water that isconsidered as a vital liquid is very influential. In the modern world with the formation of environmental law, one of the tasks of countries is to protect the water environment. The study of theperformance of Iran’s government towards the environment of Urmia Lake in the light of RamsarConvention is the main goal of this paper. Therefore, this paper with analyzing this issue tried to study the performance of Islamic Republic of Iran towards the environment of Urmia Lake in the light of Ramsar Convention.

Keywords:

water environment , the performance of Iran government , Ramsar Convention , Urmia Lake