Despite regular warnings from the National Water and Wastewater Engineering Company of Iran (Abfa), high water consumption continues unabated across provinces.
Following outbreak of the coronavirus in Iran in (announced on Feb 22), the need to take safety measures (20-second hand washing each time several times a day) has increased water consumption remarkably and officials including Mohammadreza Ahmadnasab, managing director of Tehran Province Water and Wastewater Company (Abfa subsidiary) has warned that if big cities do not cut consumption, they will face dire consequences (water rationing) in the next hot season, ISNA reported.
Abfa has appealed to residents to avoid waste and unnecessary use and to postpone spring cleaning. Nonetheless, statistics show most households have so far largely turned a deaf ear to the warning, he added.
March 15, 2020 15:48
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