Karkheh Dam Water Continues to Deplete

The water stored in Karkheh Dam in Khuzestan Province has had a drastic decline in the past few months, managing director of the dam said.
“Due to the fall in precipitation in the past two years, the dam water level has dropped below 1 billion cubic meters,” Mohammad Reza Yazdanipour was also quoted as saying by ISNA.
“The dam now has about 985 million cubic meters of water, which is less than 20% of the dam’s total capacity, that is 5.3 bcm,” he said.
“Under the current conditions, the priority of water supply is with the household sector in urban and rural regions since drinking water for 52% of Khuzestan population is supplied from Karkheh River.”