Desalination Responding to Water Deficit in Iran's Northern, Southern Regions

As per the Sixth Five-Year Economic Development Plan (2017-22), 30% of potable water in northern and southern coastal regions in Iran should be supplied by desalination units, a deputy at the National Water and Wastewater Engineering Company said.
“So far 62 desalination units with a total capacity to produce 420,000 cubic meters of fresh water per day are operating. Another 25 are under construction with a capacity of over 236,000 cubic meters a day,” ISNA quoted Shahin Pakrouh as saying.
Comprehensive studies have been conducted to help meet the needs of people living along the 100km border in Sistan and Baluchestan, Hormozgan, Khuzestan and Bushehr provinces entirely with seawater, he said.