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Lake Oroumiyeh Resuscitating | Tasnim News Agency

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – As Iranians are going to have a good time the Persian new yr and go on Nowruz holidays, hopes have been raised for the resuscitation of Lake Oroumiyeh in northwest of Iran which was on the point of being fully dried up.

– Society/Culture news –

A recently-inaugurated government-funded undertaking to switch water to the Oroumiyeh (Urmia) Lake within the northwestern province of West Azarbaijan coupled with the higher-than-normal winter precipitation have given new life to the imperiled lake that was as soon as cruised by barges and boats and obtained large crowds of vacationers bathing on its coast and having fun with mud baths.

The lake that originally coated an space of over 5,200 sq. kilometers started to shrink since 1995. More shallow sections of the salt have disappeared at an alarming fee in recent times.

The disaster has threatened the habitat of shrimp, flamingos, deer and wild sheep and triggered salt storms that pollute close by cities and farms.

That triggered a coordinated effort to save lots of the lake in 2013 -with a joint program between Iran and the UN Development Program funded by the Japanese authorities.

The administration of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi accomplished the mega environmental undertaking initiated by his predecessor to switch water from quite a lot of close by dams and rivers to Lake Oroumiyeh.

On February 24, President Raisi inaugurated the key undertaking that features practically 36 kilometers of tunnels and 11 kilometers of canals transferring 300 million cubic meters of water to Lake Oroumiyeh every year within the first part.

During the second part, a complete of 600 million cubic meters of water will likely be transferred from the ‘Kanisib’ dam to ‘Naqade’ plain and the Oroumiyeh Lake basin yearly.

It seems that the recent stream of water on the crumbled soil of the lake and the enlargement of its space would carry pleasure and hope to the guests in the course of the Persian new yr holidays that may start on March 21.

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