Iran Energy Minister Reports on Expansion of Water, Power Projects

Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said 40 large projects related to urban and rural water and wastewater expansion will go on stream in February.
The total urban population has access to potable water as well as 75% rural folks -- the latter is planned to reach 81% by 2021.
“In the past five years, over 5.5 million people on the outskirts of urban and rural areas have been supplied  potable water,” the minister told reporters at the Energy Ministry in Tehran on the weekend.