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environment.Offering promotional services and providing people with proper education is of importance in environment protection, IRNA quoted
the envoy as saying on Tuesday.He made the remarks in a meeting with West Azarbaijan province governor general Mohammad-Sadeq
Urmia through the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).Lake Urmia was once the most extensive permanent hypersaline lake in the world
Unsustainable water management in response to increasing demand together with climatic extremes has given rise to the lake's depletion
during the last two decades
adjacent wetlands, promoting local participation in 170 villages around the lake basin as well as enhancing the livelihoods and resilience
of local communities through a more integrated approach.The seven-year cooperation between Iran and Japan in the successful implementation
of Lake Urmia revival has made the Japanese government willing to continue environmental cooperation, Ahmad Reza Lahijanzadeh, deputy chief
of the Department of Environment (DOE) for the marine environment, has said.In July 2021, the Japanese envoy said that good measures have
been taken to rehabilitate Lake Urmia and it is gratifying to see that the water body is being revived.In February 2021, the Government of
Japan contributed $3 million to help revive Lake Urmia through the United Nations Development Program (UNDP)."Good efforts have been made to
revitalize Lake Urmia and I am very happy to see that the Lake is being revived
Cooperation Agency (JICA) has provided 6 air pollution analysis equipment to Iran within the framework of capacity development on air
pollution control in the Tehran Municipality Project.The Seventh Joint Coordinating Committee (JCC) of the JICA Project for Capacity
Development on Air Pollution Control in Tehran Municipality Project was formed.This project, which started in 2017, is one of the largest
and most comprehensive projects in the field of air pollution by the Japanese in collaboration with Iranian experts covers various aspects
