Mobarakeh Steel Co. Pioneers Use of Reclaimed Wastewater

Mobarakeh Steel Company, the largest steel company in Iran and the wider Middle East and North Africa region, is the first industrial complex that has replaced freshwater with reclaimed wastewater in Isfahan Province, the head of the company’s Operations Department said.
“The company has set up a 500-km wastewater network, equipped with 14 pumping stations, to collect and transfer 12 million cubic meters of sewage per year from nine small towns, including Mobarakeh, Lenjan, Dizicheh, Zibashahr, Talkhouncheh and Sadeh, to a wastewater treatment plant in the complex,” Hamidreza Khosravani was also quoted as saying by ILNA.
Costing $40 million, the plan has helped the company reduce its extraction from depleting groundwater resources by 45%, he added.