Khorasan Razavi Province Combating Illegal Water Wells

The pace at which groundwater resources are depleting has become a serious source of concern and a preventive measure crucial in this regard should be battling illegal water wells. 
Head of water resources’ affairs in Khorasan Razavi Water Company, Mohammad Borzouee, says of the 4,000 illegal wells in the province 2,000 were sealed in the last calendar year that ended in March, the Energy Ministry’s news portal reported.
“Sealing the wells helped save 62 million cubic meters of water.”
With 7 million people, the province is a big and populous region. More than 30 million pilgrims from in and outside Iran visit Mashhad every year, the provincial capital and Iran’s most important shrine city.