Desalination Is Indispensable

Seventy plus desalination plants that process 309,000 cubic meters of saline water a day opened in the past ten years and  cost $250 million, the deputy energy minister for water and wastewater affairs said in Tehran.
“Of the 71 installations, 54 are in the coastal areas in the south, namely Hormozgan, Bushehr and Sistan-Baluchestan provinces. The rest were built in the northern regions including Gilan, Mazandaran and Golestan in collaboration with the National Water and Wastewater Engineering Company of Iran (Abfa),” ILNA quoted Qasem Taqizadeh Khamesi as saying.
Abfa is completing 25 other desalination units that are in different stages of construction in southern areas. “Fourteen plants are expected to become operational by July costing $80 million. When completed 259,000 cubic meters of desalinated water will be added to Abfa’s capacity a day reaching 568,000 cm/d.”