Non-Revenue Water at 25 Percent

Currently, the level of non-revenue water in Iran is 25%, which means that a quarter of the 6 billion cubic meters of water annually supplied to the network is wasted, a water resource management expert said.
“The major part of water loss is in the field of agriculture, which is due to the lack of irrigation and drainage networks. This has caused water to be wasted in various ways and instead of feeding farmlands, it either leaks into the ground or evaporates,” Mohammad Ebrahim Raisi was also quoted as saying by ILNA.
Non-revenue water is water that has been produced and lost before it reaches the destination. Losses can be real losses (through leaks, sometimes also referred to as physical losses) or apparent losses (for example through theft or metering inaccuracies).