All Power Plants Obliged to Use Recycled Wastewater

Recycled wastewater accounts for 85% of water used in Hamadan’s Shahid Mofateh Thermal Power Plant cooling tower, deputy of the strategic production department at the Thermal Power Plant Holding Company said.
"As per a directive issued by the Energy Ministry, it is mandatory for all thermal power plants to use reclaimed wastewater [instead of potable water] in their cooling towers,"  Paven, the ministry's news portal quoted Abdolrasoul Pishahang as saying.
Elaborating on long-term plans to replace water taken from wells, lakes and rivers in power plants with reclaimed wastewater, he said," The first treated wastewater project to supply water to the cooling towers is currently being piloted in SMTPP."