Renewables Annually Help Save 1.5 Billion Liters of Water 

The production of each megawatt of electricity at thermal power plants needs about 700 liters of water while renewable power stations do not use water and, as a result, prevent the consumption of over 1.5 billion liters of water annually, a member of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Organization said.
“Considering the large number of thermal power plants in the central and arid regions of Iran, which use huge amounts of freshwater, development of renewable power stations and replacing a part of thermal stations could have saved up to 17 billion liters of water per year in the country,” Mohammad-Ali Pour-Amiri was also quoted as saying by ILNA.
According to the latest reports, the capacity of renewable power plants in the country is 956 megawatts, the main share of which comes from solar power stations (52%) and then wind farms (34%).