Water Overuse Is a New Challenge in Mazandaran

Overextraction from renewable and underground water resources in Mazandaran Province has become a new and serious challenge, managing director of the Regional Water Company said. 
“Close to 180 million cubic meters of water is extracted from aquifers via 2,500 unauthorized wells in the area,” IRNA quoted Mohammad Ebrahim Yakhkeshi as saying.
There are about 142,000 authorized wells in the region from which 1.3 billion million cubic meters of water is withdrawn annually, he said, and added that declining water resources has compelled the water company to increase the number of plains from which water withdrawal is banned.