Water Supply to Reach Over 7,000 Villages More Within 30 Months

The executive operation of the project to supply water to 7,138 villages across Iran started on Monday on the order of President Ebrahim Raisi via videoconference.
Costing $760 million, the project will provide drinking water to more than 3.3 million people in rural areas within 30 months, the Energy Ministry’s news portal Paven reported.
Seeking to eliminate deprivation in underprivileged regions, the project includes installation of more than 1,000 km of transmission lines, improvement and development of rural distribution network extending over 11,000 km, water supply with a capacity of 6,216 liters per second, construction of 1,126 storage tanks with a capacity of 400,000 cubic meters and 449 pumping stations.