Bakhtegan Lake

With a surface area of 3,500 square kilometres (1,400 sq mi), Bakhtegan was Iran's second-largest lake. It was fed by the Kor River. The construction of several dams on the Kor River had significantly reduced the water flow into the lake, increased its salinity, and extirpated the lake's populations of flamingos and other migratory birds.

Description

Lake Bakhtegan, once Iran's second largest lake, was fed mostly by the Kur River, while Lake Tashk was fed by overflow from the marshes at its west end and by a large permanent spring in the northwest.

Despite being naturally segregated by narrow strips of land, they used to join to form a single lake during years of heavy rainfall. The lakes became completely dry from 2008 through 2010 and the ecosystem has suffered adverse effects.