1 Water Flows Towards Power: Kurdish ecological disenfranchisement in Lake Urmia, Iran 1 2 Azad Henareh Khalyani 1 , Audrey L. Mayer* 2,3 , and Emma S. Norman 3 3 1 North Carolina State University/ USDA Forest Service 4 2 Michigan Technological University, School of Forest Resources and Environmental Sciences 5 3 Michigan Technological University, Department of Social Sciences 6 7 ahenare@ncsu.edu, almayer@mtu.edu, esnorman@mtu.edu 8 9 *corresponding author: 10 Audrey L. Mayer, Michigan Technological University, 1400 Townsend Dr., Houghton, MI 11 49931 (USA) 12 almayer@mtu.edu 13 14 15 This manuscript is forthcoming in Society and Natural Resources. 16 17