Abfa: 13,000 Rural Districts Lacking Safe Water, Wastewater Facilities

Close to 13,000 small towns and rural districts across the country are deprived of potable water, wastewater networks and sewage collection facilities, director of the state-owned National Water and Wastewater Engineering Company of Iran (Abfa) said.
“The massive figure accounts for 40% of the total villages located in remote regions, in which around 1.6 million people are living,” Majid Aqazadeh was also quoted as saying by ISNA.
There are 33,000 rural areas in the country, of which 20,000 are not covered by Abfa’s regular services and a part of them are supplied with safe water via portable tankers, he added.
The official said about 18,000 small towns and villages with a total population of 10 million are living in water-stressed regions.