Rumors of Water Export to Persian Gulf Arab States Rejected

The Energy Ministry has categorically denied claims that it is exporting water from Khuzestan Province to the Persian Gulf littoral states like Kuwait.
According to Seyyed Karim Hosseini, a lawmaker from Khuzestan, Kuwait and Iran were supposed to sign an agreement in 2003 to supply the desert emirate with 900 million liters of fresh water daily through a pipeline, but the contract was never concluded, ILNA reported.
“The water transfer project foresaw the construction of a 500-km pipeline to channel water from the Karoun and Karkheh rivers in southwestern Iran to Kuwait at a cost of $2 billion, but it never saw the light of day.”