Water Crisis in Iran

To help ensure stable supply of potable water in Bushehr Province, one the country’s most water-stressed regions, desalination plants have been set up along the coastal areas off the Persian…

Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian on Monday inaugurated a water supply project in the town of Maraveh Tappeh in northern Golestan Province. According to the Energy Ministry news website, the $1.5…

Construction of nine wastewater treatment plants will commence in south and east of Tehran Province from March, said the managing director of Tehran Province Water and Wastewater Company.

Decades of drought and steep decline in precipitation have caused water levels in Sistan-Baluchestan Province's seven dams to fall to 429 million cubic meters, almost 22% of the total capacity…

Iran and Afghanistan started a new round of talks on water sharing from the Hirmand (also known as Helmand) River and its tributary. Afghan deputy minister of water, Khan Mohammad Takal…

Annual water loss in urban areas (25%) is of epic proportions, director of the Consumption Management Office at the National Water and Wastewater Engineering Company said in Mashhad on Saturday…

Diverting water from the Caspian Sea to the drought-stricken Semnan Province in north central Iran, which is seen by many experts as a highly contentious issue, would cost between 70 cents and…

Water and electricity are indispensible parts of security in today's world and explains why pragmatic approaches to minimize waste must be given top priority. President Hassan Rouhani made the…

Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said 40 large projects related to urban and rural water and wastewater expansion will go on stream in February. The total urban population has access to potable…

Construction of the second phase of Tehran's seventh water treatment plant has been accelerated and will come on stream in April, managing director of Tehran Province Water and Wastewater…

Agriculture Minister Mahmoud Hojjati and President of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture Gholamhossein Shafei signed a memorandum of understanding. The deal was signed…

Despite higher precipitation in the fall, Karaj Dam (also known as Amir Kabir) west of Tehran is still not what it should have been, Mehdi Fotokian, director of the dam said.

A water conference opened on Tuesday at the Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA) to discuss ways and means for improving water productivity and management.

With the current patterns of water use and wastage,  shortages will be such by 2050, when the population reaches 117 million (from 82 million now), that the country will suffer from…

Plans to build large dams have been removed from the Energy Ministry agenda, the head of Iran Water and Power Resources Development Company said.

Renovation of the first phase of a water supply system from Minab Dam to Bandar Abbas in southern Hormozgan Province was completed on Tuesday. "Preventing wastage of treated water at Minab…

The first phase of a new desalination plant in Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan Province, was launched Tuesday. With a total capacity of 100,000 cubic meters of water per day, the unit will supply a…

Freshwater plays a key role not only in maintaining health and welfare but also in providing security. Nonetheless, an estimated 3.6 billion people in the world lack access to safe water…

Despite the promising autumn rain, total precipitation is still 48 millimeters below its long-term average, head of the National Drought Warning and Monitoring Center, a subsidiary of Iran…

Renewable water resources show an appalling 20% decline over five years, declining from 130 billion cubic meters in 2013 to 105 bcm now. Renewable water resources are defined as the average…

The second phase of Ghadir Water Supply Project was launched in Abadan on Monday. Completed at a cost of $38 million, it provides water from Karkheh River to Ghadir Water Treatment Plant and…

A researcher team at Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology has developed a smart water meter that can renovate the water supply network.

A desalination unit in Sirik County, off the coast of Sea of Oman in the southern Hormozgan Province, was launched on Thursday. The facility provides 8,000 people with potable water, ISNA…

The current water year (started Sept. 23) began with scattered showers and total precipitation height in over a month shows a 56% increase compared to the corresponding period last year,…

The managing director of Iran Water Resources Management said Friday 109 dams are under construction across the country, 43 of which will provide water for household purposes and are expected to…