Water Crisis in Iran

Twelve power, water and wastewater projects (at a cost of $270 million) were launched during Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian’s visit to different cities of Fars Province.

The first unit of Sardasht Hydroelectric Power Plant in Sardasht County, West Azarbaijan Province, will go on stream by the weekend, the managing director of Iran Water and Power Resources…

Despite the fact that dams and Chah-Nimeh water reservoirs are full, residents in Sistan-Baluchestan Province are still suffering from the shortage of safe drinking water supply, the provincial…

An estimated $2 billion have been spent on Tehran’s wastewater network development plan since 1995, the head of provincial wastewater company said. "The venture has totally registered a work-in…

A wastewater treatment plant in Mahmoudabad Nemouneh City in Qazvin Province was launched on Sunday in the presence of Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian. Completed at a cost of $7.2 million, the…

There are no plans to announce restrictions on water use this summer, head of the National Water and Wastewater Engineering Company said Wednesday. "The company has forecast water consumption…

Rehabilitation of qanats should be put on the agenda and the issue, unlike in the past, has drawn the attention of the Energy Ministry, the agriculture minister said Tuesday. “The government is…

Water consumption in Tehran surged by 5% in the past three months (March 21 to June 21) compared to the corresponding period last year, the managing director of Tehran Province Water and…

Water-intensive lifestyle, lack of long-term plans to efficiently use the limited water resources, inadequate investment to develop water infrastructure and sacrificing national interest at the…

The project to transfer wastewater from nine counties in Isfahan Province to Mobarakeh Steel Company -- Iran's biggest steelmaker located in the same province -- was launched on Friday.

Completing South Tehran Wastewater Treatment Complex will help save at least 300 million liters of water a year that is extracted from underground resources to water urban green spaces, the head…

Water issues (including scarcity of drinking water, poor infrastructure, floods and droughts) are crucial in developing nations like Iran.  Japan's Ambassador Mitsugu Saito made the…

Yazd rural water supply network is expanding as close to 72,000 residents in 135 small towns around the province have been provided water during the past six months, managing director of the…

As per the Sixth Five-Year Economic Development Plan (2017-22), 30% of potable water in northern and southern coastal regions in Iran should be supplied by desalination units, a deputy at the…

The first electrodialysis (ED) system to improve the quality of drinking water was launched in Shahid Beheshti Village of Shush County in southwestern Khuzestan Province. The vice-president for…

Every year 50 billion cubic meters of water is extracted from groundwater sources in Iran, a water expert said.

An estimated 151,000 households in 818 small towns and villages on the outskirts of urban and rural areas in  northern Gilan Province have been supplied with piped water since 2001,…

The five dams supplying water to Tehran have more water compared to the previous years; however, as the capacity of surface water pipelines is limited due to seepage and rusting infrastructure,…

So long as national interest is sacrificed at the altar of self-interest, water-related challenges cannot and will not be addressed, a deputy energy minister in the National Water and Wastewater…

Supplying rural areas with clean water will be among the main activities of the Energy Ministry this year, deputy for engineering and development affairs at the National Water and Wastewater…

Recycled wastewater accounts for 85% of water used in Hamadan’s Shahid Mofateh Thermal Power Plant cooling tower, deputy of the strategic production department at the Thermal Power Plant Holding…

Close to 60 million cubic meters of treated wastewater enters Urmia Lake every year, the managing director of West Azarbaijan Water and Wastewater Company said. “Part of the water from…

Iran National Innovation Fund and the Vice Presidential Office for Science and Technology have signed an agreement to support startups working on water management issues.

Soil, water and electricity projects in West Azarbaijan Province were inaugurated Tuesday in the presence of President Hassan Rouhani and Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian. The development plans…

An estimated one million cubic meters of wastewater was transferred from the South Tehran Wastewater Treatment Complex to Tehran Oil Refinery in the last eight months, deputy operations manager…