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Vileshchay reservoir

Vileshchay Reservoir is a reservoir created by the water of the Vilesh river, also called the Vileshchay river. The reservoir is located in the Masally Rayon of Azerbaijan.

The reservoir's volume is 46 million m<sup>3</sup> and is a major attraction for tourists and therefore becoming a place of many hotels and resorts. The height of the dam is 37 meters and the overall horizontal length is 3.2&nbsp;km. The government of the region will be increasing the height of the dam by 15 meters with a new construction, which is going to increase the volume to 130 million m<sup>3</sup>.

In 2012, President Ilham Aliyev laid the foundations of a new water supply system in Masally, using the existing Vileshchay reservoir but also building a new reservoir.

According to a 2011 environmental assessment prepared by a Texas company (Aim Texas Trading), in cooperation with The World Bank, "Vileshchay Reservoir Water, is highly contaminated by the Enterococs [sic] and other microbial indicators because of the intensive breeding the stock and grazing activities in the upstreams of the river."

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