Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Lake Urmia losing water

Lake Urmia losing water

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Original – Drainage of water in Lake Urmia in Iran over a 30 year period. By 2013, water shortages were considered Iran's greatest crisis, more dangerous “than Israel, USA or political fighting”"

Reason: Shocking video of the water shortage hitting Lake Urmia in Iran
Articles in which this image appears: Water crisis in Iran, Lake Urmia, +1
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena/Others, maybe?
Creator: مانفی using NASA imagery.

Support as nominator – — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:53, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The video leaves me wanting to be able to go in and examine the changes more closely. Is there a compelling reason to feature this as opposed to the original NASA images as a set? 24.222.214.125 (talk) 02:41, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Resolution, one would think (the 1980s image is far below the minimum) and the fact that the originals are all oriented differently. (The file description page links to the originals on Commons). — Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:59, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support EV __ Alborzagros (talk) 14:12, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support as others. Yann (talk) 19:01, 31 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - sorry I am bad at looking at videos, just postpone them all the time, until I forgot to look at them. Hafspajen (talk) 22:28, 31 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Alchemist-hp (talk) 19:50, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Urmia lake drought.webm --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 22:54, 5 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Added it to Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking back, where a similar image about the Aral Sea was placed. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 22:54, 5 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]