Transfer of Reclaimed Wastewater From Tabriz to Urmia Lake Starts

The first phase of a plan to transfer reclaimed sewage from Tabriz wastewater treatment plant to Urmia Lake has become operational, the governor general of East Azarbaijan Province said.
“The project, which involves a 10-km pipeline, power utilities and special valves, will help supply 70 million cubic meters of processed wastewater to the troubled lake a year,” Abedin Khorram was also quoted as saying by the Energy Ministry’s news portal.
The completion of the second phase that has already started will raise the current volume to 125 mcm a year, he added.
Khorram said the National Water and Wastewater Engineering Company of Iran (Abfa) started work on the initiative in 2016 and has spent close to $5 million so far, which was borrowed from the National Development Fund of Iran, the country's sovereign wealth fund.