Years of drought have left decision-makers with little option but to meet a bigger share of freshwater need for the growing population from seawater, said the deputy for supervising operations at the National Water and Wastewater Engineering Company of Iran on Thursday.
Hamidreza Kashfi was speaking in a meeting with experts on water desalination on the sidelines of the 14th International Water and Wastewater Exhibition at Tehran International Permanent Fairground, October 3-6.
At present, there are 73 desalination plants in different regions with a capacity of processing 420,000 cubic meters of saline water per day, and 148 million cubic meters per annum.
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