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January 19,2022
Afghanistan’s water officials opened discharge valves at the Kamal Khan Dam on Helmand River and water is expected to flow into three big reservoirs in the Sistan Plain called Chah-Nimeh in Sistan-...
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January 16,2022
Iran held 500 billion cubic meters of strategic underground water reserves or fossil water, of which 100 bcm were consumed between 2010 and 2021, a water expert said.
“Of the remaining volume [400...
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January 11,2022
Projects to supply water to rural areas are underway in Kerman Province and according to plans, 442 villages will get piped water by the end of May, the managing director of Kerman Water and...
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January 07,2022
In the past 16 years, a total of 7,635 unauthorized water wells have been sealed in Isfahan Province, which helped save over 215 million cubic meters of water a year in the dry region, deputy of...
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January 03,2022
The quality of piped water in Tehran is monitored with the help of 400 online systems, all of which comply with the World Health Organization standards, the head of Quality Control Department in...
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January 01,2022
Importing water from neighboring states, such as Tajikistan and Afghanistan, is neither logical nor feasible to address the water shortage in drought-stricken regions of the central plateau,...
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December 29,2021
The transfer of desalinated water from the Persian Gulf to drought-stricken Kerman and Yazd provinces will cost 150,000 rials (50 cents) per cubic meter, a senior consultant of the Energy Ministry...
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December 27,2021
The government pays $200 million annually in hidden subsidies to water subscribers nationwide, managing director of the state-owned Water and Wastewater Engineering Company of Iran (Abfa) said.
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December 17,2021
Engaging in political dialogues and pursuing a robust water diplomacy at the regional and international level top the Energy Ministry’s agenda to handle issues related to shared water resources...
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December 11,2021
In the past three months, drinking water has been supplied to 549 villages with a population of 355,000 people, according to the data provided by the Energy Ministry.
Currently, over 83% of Iran’s...
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December 10,2021
Tehran is keen on using international expertise and cooperating with global organizations to address its worsening water crisis, the energy minister’s advisor for international affairs said....
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December 06,2021
Iran registered 32.6 millimeters of precipitation from the beginning of the current water year (Sept. 23) until Dec. 3, which shows a 39% decline compared with the same period of last year when the...
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December 01,2021
The second phase of the wastewater treatment plant in Tabriz, East Azarbaijan Province, will help raise the inflow of treated wastewater to the troubled Urmia Lake by 150%, director of the...
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November 13,2021
The drilling 10 deep-water wells is one of the programs for supplying drinking water to cities and villages in Sistan-Baluchestan Province, the deputy governor of the province said on Saturday.
“...
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November 02,2021
Zayandehrud Dam in Isfahan Province currently has 178 million cubic meters of water, which means the dam is only about 13% full, deputy director for protection and exploitation of Isfahan Regional...
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November 02,2021
Tehran wastewater network development plan, dubbed Tehran Water Ring System, has registered 70% progress and will be launched in 2022, a deputy of Tehran Province Water and Wastewater Company said...
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October 30,2021
Curbing water use in agriculture, which is the most water-intensive sector, is necessary and the failure to do so will have catastrophic consequences, a leading climatologist and a university...
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October 25,2021
Precipitation in Tehran Province has plummeted by a massive 97% since Sept. 23 (beginning of the current water year), which is unprecedented in the last 50 years, deputy for water and hydropower...
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October 17,2021
Water transfer from the Persian Gulf to Fars Province will address shortages in the industrial and drinking sectors, the energy minister said.
“According to plans, about 400 million cubic meters...
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October 16,2021
Failure to fully enforce spatial planning in Iran has not only brought the country to the verge of water bankruptcy but also had an array of catastrophic results, including the depletion of...
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October 05,2021
Cloud seeding initiatives, which are primarily aimed at increasing rainfall, can do very little to tackle the deepening water crisis in Iran, the head of Water Affairs Faculty at Shahid Chamran...
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October 03,2021
Developing infrastructures to divert water from locations where it is abundant to locations facing a shortage is an unsustainable supply-oriented management policy and can do very little to ease...
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September 28,2021
The annual land subsidence in Tehran Province is reportedly 36 centimeters, especially in its southern plains, which is the result of excessive groundwater extraction from underground aquifers, the...
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September 19,2021
Dams across Iran has the capacity to hold 50.5 billion cubic meters of water, but currently only 39% of their total capacity is filled, which is due to lower precipitation in the past water year (...
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September 17,2021
The National Water and Wastewater Engineering Company of Iran (Abfa) is ready to supply at least 15 million cubic meters of treated wastewater to Tehran Municipality a year for watering parks and...
January 19,2022Afghanistan’s water officials opened discharge valves at the Kamal Khan Dam on Helmand River and water is expected to flow into three big reservoirs in the Sistan Plain called Chah-Nimeh in Sistan-...
