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. 2023 Mar 23;10:102130. doi: 10.1016/j.mex.2023.102130

Table 3.

Alternatives of water allocation to Urmia Lake [14].

Alternative Description Assumption
UL1 Distributing as much as possible of the 3100 million m3 of annual water rights from Urmia Lake Except in extreme droughts, Urmia Lake's complete annual water right is delivered.
UL2 In extremely severe droughts, Urmia Lake's annual water demand is reduced by 35% (or 1085 million m3) (Level 4 in Table (3)) In normal conditions, the water SDR* in the agricultural sector is not increased to offset a deficiency in supplying the water demand of Urmia Lake in past periods
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Supply-to-Demand Ratio.