DoE Spent $500m on Battling Sandstorms

The Department of Environment has spent close to $500 million over the past three years to help combat dust storms that have afflicted more than two-thirds of the country, DoE’s deputy for human environment said.
“Fighting dust storms and reviving wetlands have been at the center of the Sixth Five-Year Economic Development Plan’s [2017-22] chapter on environment protection,” Masoud Tajrishi was quoted as saying by IRNA.
The budget has mainly been allocated to protect imperiled wetlands, planting trees and spraying mulch in the main domestic sources of dust and sandstorms in southwestern and southeastern provinces, including Khuzestan and Sistan-Baluchestan.