A water treatment plant in Kermanshah City, capital of Kermanshah Province, is scheduled to come on line by summer, managing director of the provincial regional water company said.
Construction of the plant has registered over 90% progress and when operational the entire one million population of the city will have access to potable water, IRNA reported Bahram Darvishi as saying.
“There are 12 storage dams in the province with total capacity of 1.35 billion cubic meters,” Darvishi said, but noted that due to the decline in rainfall water resources in the region leave much to be desired.
The plant in the western province will receive water from Gavshan Dam in neighboring Kurdestan Province, he said. “Installation work of the water transmission line from the dam to the treatment plant has been completed.”
With a capacity to hold 552 million cubic meters of water, Gavshan Dam is located on Gaveh River 40 km south of Sanandaj, capital city of Kurdestan Province 75 km north of Kermanshah Province. Water from the dam's reservoir is transferred for irrigation in Kurdestan and Kermanshah via the 20km Gavshan water conveyance tunnel. The dam also supports an 11-megawatt hydroelectric power station.
About 189 million cubic meters of water will be transferred annually to 310 square kilometers of farmlands in the two western regions.
When the plant in Kermanshah is up and running, 63 mcm of drinking water from the reservoir will be supplied to Kermanshah.
According to Kermanshah Regional Meteorology Office, 291 mm of rain fell in the province in the first six months of the current water year (Sept 2020-March 2021), which is 13% less than the same period in the previous year when the precipitation was 333.4 mm.
Recent Projects
Several projects have been launched recently in Kermanshah counties to improve water supply for drinking and farming.
One project is the Sharaf Shah Dam in Qasr-e-Shirin County, with a storage capacity of 101 million cubic meter, which provides clean water to Sumar and Naft Shahr, two cities bordering Iraq in the western province.
Sharaf Shah reservoir dam also provides water for 3,000 plus hectares of farms in the region, especially in Sumar and helps expand farming in Sumar a city that was occupied by the invading Ba’ath army during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.
Farming and animal husbandry is a key occupation in the region that is known for its citrus fruits, grapes and dates.
Access to stable water supply for 12,000 people in 55 villages in Kermanshah, Sahneh, Ravansar and Sarpol-e-Zahab counties was a recent successful initiative.
Construction of two water treatment plants in Saqqez and Sahneh counties is underway and will meet the needs of 110,000 people. An inflatable rubber dam has been built on Sirwan River with a capacity to hold 280,000 cubic meters of water.
Moreover, an inflatable rubber dam has been built on Sirwan River, with a capacity to hold 280,000 cubic meters of water.
