Water Transfer to Urmia Lake via Tunnel to Start in February 2023

The project to transfer water from Kanisib Dam to Urmia Lake via a tunnel is near completion and will be launched in February 2023.
Costing more than $75 million, the project includes a 36-km tunnel and a 17-km canal to channel water from Zab River along the western borders to the troubled Urmia Lake in the northwest, Mehr News Agency reported.
The project was to be launched sooner, but due to the appearance of cracks in the tunnel, it was postponed to fix the cracks. With the completion of the repair programs, now the tunnel is ready to take water.
Currently, the level of water in Urmia Lake has reached 1,270 meters, its lowest in the last 30 years. The lake now has about 1.17 billion cubic meters of water.