• Yazd and Kerman provinces were pioneers in adapting their lifestyles with water paucity for as long as history can recall.
    Population explosion, massive urban expansion, agriculture issues, rising consumption, waste and climate change have pushed rivalry for sustainable water resources to alarming levels. 
  • Energy Efficiency: A Missing Link in Managing Demand
    The National Iranian Gas Company's output stood near 260 billion cubic meters in 2020.  As per data released by the state-run NIGC (a subsidiary of the National Iranian Oil Company), of the total...
  • Sino-Iran Ties in Perspective
    Iran and China signed a 25-year “Comprehensive Strategic Partnership” last month that is likely to result, among other things, in increased oil flow from Iran to the world’s second economic power...
  • Blessing or Curse?
    Iran holds the world's second biggest natural gas reserves after Russia. Gas production has surpassed 870 million cubic meters per day and a large number of city and village dwellers are supplied...
  • Water Mismanagement
    From official reports it is apparent the water authorities have failed to manage consumption in the country over the past ten decades. The monstrous growth of cities and population explosion has...
  • Dynamics of the Petrochemical Industry
    Reports on the progress of the huge petrochemical industry in Iran are regularly fed into by the media in and outside the country.  There is no denying the fact that this sector and gas companies...
  • Rewriting Water Management in Iran
    Efficient management of demand and developing effective resource management techniques (compared to water transfer projects) would be more practical in addressing water crisis, but in practice have...
  • Fuel Smuggling in Iran: A Strange Narrative
    The Tehran government’s protestations about fuel smuggling from the eastern and southern borders have become a permanent feature. So has the inability and unwillingness of those in charge to put an...
  • Missing the Point
    Drawing parallels between average annual income in Iran and the neighboring states, some energy experts insist, rather strongly but strangely, that gasoline is indeed cheap in the country. They may...
  • Security of Hormuz Strait Paramount
    Threatening the security of the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial shipping route linking Middle East oil producers to international markets in Asia, Europe, North America and beyond, can translate into a...
  • Efficient Railroads Needed to Help Curb Fuel Consumption in Iran
    Total annual energy consumption in Iran is almost equal to the energy produced by burning 1.4 billion barrels of crude oil. The Iran Fuel Conservation Company says more than 35% of the energy is...
  • Iran's Azar Oilfield Output to Double, NIDC Says
    To speed up production from oil fields shared with Iraq, drilling operations on seven wells in Azar Oilfield in Anaran block in Mehran, Ilam Province, are expected to end by March, operation...
  • Iran's Water Crisis and Dams: Opinion
    The mind boggles when officials take turns in proudly announcing that plans are underway to complete 120 dams across the country, of which 43 "must" be ready by 2022. Of the 172 dams in Iran close...

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