Urmia Lake Recovery Efforts Rewarding

Close to $1 billion has been spent on Urmia Lake Restoration Program over the last five years, an official involved in the Urmia Lake Restoration Program said.
Masoud Tajrishi, the ULRP administrator and director of the program's planning office, told IRNA that the lake (in northwest Iran) now holds 5 billion cubic meters of water, up 25% compared to 2019 when it was four bcm.
"Things look pretty good at the moment," he said.
The lake is returning to some form of stability with 1,271.6 meters above sea level and spreading over  3,080 square kilometers.