Lake Urmia Restoration Plans Register 90 Percent Progress

Construction work to channel water from Zab River along the western borders to the troubled Lake Urmia in the northwest has registered 90% progress and is expected to come on stream in February 2022, director of the National Water and Wastewater Engineering Company of Iran (Abfa) said.
“The scheme is part of measures to help restore the once largest saltwater lake in the Middle East,” Qasem Taqizadeh Khamesi was also quoted as saying by Mehr News Agency.
The plan entails a dam (Kani Sib in Piranshahr, West Azarbaijan Province), a 36-km tunnel and a 17-km canal.