Not a Panacea

The first phase of an $800 million project to supply water from the Persian Gulf to Kerman and Yazd provinces went on stream last week. 
Senior officials, namely the Minister of Industries Reza Rahmani and Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian have gone overboard to say that the apparently controversial project will have a profound positive effect on economic development and create jobs.
The 305-km pipeline will annually transfer 180 million cubic meters of desalinated water from a Bandar Abbas desalination plant in southern Hormozgan Province to Gol-Gohar Mining and Industrial Complex in Sirjan and Sarcheshmeh Copper Mine in Rafsanjan County, both in the parched Kerman Province, and to Chadormalu Mining and Industrial Company in the Yazd desert, ISNA reported.
It merits mention that the three industrial behemoths invested  $400 million in the mega project.