The Impact of Lake Urmia Water Crisis on Public Security in East Azarbaijan Province

In this study, while briefly introducing Lake Urmia and its catchment area, the most important factors affecting the current conditions of Lake Urmia and also the most important threats and damages caused by the continuation of this situation have been described. The main purpose of compiling this article is to explain the causes affecting the dryness of Lake Urmia and the resulting threats in order to adopt appropriate strategies and arrangements to get out of these conditions. The main research question: to what extent does the drying of Lake Urmia affect the general security of East Azerbaijan province? This research is applied in terms of type, descriptive method and survey in terms of data collection technique. The statistical population of the study was 102 people who were selected in full and the data collection tool was a valid and reliable researcher-made questionnaire. (Cronbach's alpha) was collected and t-test was used to analyze the data.

Overdraft from the water resources of Lake Urmia in recent years has had adverse environmental and economic consequences. In addition to upsetting the demographic balance of East Azerbaijan Province, mass migration also poses several security challenges. In order to evaluate the indicators, the mean of a quantitative variable was compared with the constant value (t-test) and the mean equality test was used for a sample. If this trend continues, while creating social, economic and environmental problems for the region, events such as reduced political participation, the formation of protests and regional tensions over water resources, population displacement, reduction The legitimacy of the system, as well as the reduction of the efficiency of the security and law enforcement forces in the region, will result in the formation of security crises in this province.