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Lake Urmia Restoration Plans Register 90 Percent Progress

EghtesadOnline: 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.
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Publish Date: 25/October/2021 | 15:38

Lake Urmia Inflow Improving

EghtesadOnline: With programs to revive Urmia Lake moving ahead, seven billion cubic meters of water from dams flowed into the world famous lake in the past decade and is increasing, head of Urmia Lake Restoration Project said.
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Publish Date: 13/March/2021 | 19:05

Health Risks of Lake Urmia’s Desiccation Under Study

EghtesadOnline: The universities of medical sciences in Tabriz (East Azarbaijan) and Urmia (West Azarbaijan) have been tasked to conduct a comprehensive long-term study of the effects on health of the people residing in the lake’s region, following reports that respiratory and other illnesses have increased due to its desiccation.
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Publish Date: 16/January/2017 | 05:07

Iranian prominent actor calls for UN aid to save Lake Urmia

EghtesadOnline: Famous Iranian actor Reza Kianian in a letter to the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged the world body to help Iran save the dying Lake of Urmia (Orumiyeh in Persian) which is the largest lake in the Middle East.
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Publish Date: 01/November/2016 | 14:02

Lake Urmia Water Project Complete

EghtesadOnline: The project to divert water from Zab River along the western borders to the distressed Lake Urmia in the northwest is almost complete and is expected to come on stream in December, director of the National Water and Wastewater Engineering Company of Iran (Abfa) said.
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Publish Date: 17/November/2020 | 15:04

Lake Urmia Water Project Complete

EghtesadOnline: The project to divert water from Zab River along the western borders to the distressed Lake Urmia in the northwest is almost complete and is expected to come on stream in December, director of the National Water and Wastewater Engineering Company of Iran (Abfa) said.
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Publish Date: 17/November/2020 | 15:04

Tabriz Wastewater Plant to Help Revive Lake Urmia

EghtesadOnline: Completion of the second phase of a wastewater treatment plant in Tabriz, East Azarbaijan Province, will help supply four cubic meters of water per second to Lake Urmia or 125 million cubic meters a year, director of the provincial Water and Wastewater Company said.
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Publish Date: 16/September/2020 | 24:27

Nonstop Work to Revive Lake Urmia

EghtesadOnline: The third phase of Urmia Wastewater Treatment Plant is near completion and is expected to be completed by 2021, managing director of West Azarbaijan Water and Wastewater Company said.
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Publish Date: 07/July/2020 | 10:33

Lake Urmia Receiving 270 mcm of Water

EghtesadOnline: To help restore Lake Urmia, close to 270 million cubic meters of water will be gradually discharged into the troubled lake from four dams in West Azarbaijan Province over the next two months, head of Urmia Lake Restoration Project said.
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Publish Date: 29/February/2020 | 07:26

Rains, Restoration Help Lake Urmia Improve

EghtesadOnline: Lake Urmia water level is on the rise following good rainfall that started last year and restoration programs carried out recently.
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Publish Date: 05/February/2020 | 24:03

West Azarbaijan Dams Help Revive Troubled Lake Urmia

EghtesadOnline: In the framework of the Lake Urmia Restoration Project, water from Shahrchay and Boukan dams was discharged into the troubled lake on Sunday, managing director of West Azarbaijan Regional Water Company said.
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Publish Date: 23/December/2019 | 11:21

Lake Urmia Desiccation High

EghtesadOnline: Close to 1.6 billion cubic meters of water evaporated from Urmia Lake in the last 90 days, head of the Base Studies Department of East Azarbaijan Water Company said.
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Publish Date: 31/August/2019 | 10:46

Water Level Rising in Urmia Lake

EghtesadOnline: Around 2.46 billion cubic meters of water has been released from dams in West Azarbaijan Province into Lake Urmia since the beginning of the current water year (last September), managing director of the provincial Regional Water Company said.
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Publish Date: 21/July/2019 | 10:01

Lake Urmia Reemerging

EghtesadOnline: An estimated 2.7 billion cubic meters of water has been released from dams in West Azarbaijan Province, namely Boukan Dam into Urmia Lake since the beginning of the current water year (September), director of the provincial Regional Water Company said Sunday.
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Publish Date: 13/May/2019 | 13:38