Water Crisis in Iran

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…

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,…

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…

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…

Large-scale operations carried out by eastern and western neighboring states to control cross-border rivers have compounded Iran’s mounting water crisis, the head of the Water Affairs Faculty at…

Annual water withdrawal from dwindling underground resources in drought-stricken Semnan Province has exceeded 150 million cubic meters and it is continuing unabated, managing director of the…

The installation of 3,000 smart electricity meters on agricultural wells in Tehran Province has helped curb annual water consumption by 35 million cubic meters, the provincial water company’s…

Water is closely linked with industrial development and economic growth.  The director of the National Water and Wastewater Engineering Company of Iran (Abfa) added that water supply and…

Projects are underway in two northwestern provinces of East Azarbaijan and Ardabil to help alleviate water shortage in the region. A project to build a new pipeline to transfer water from…

A total of 800 projects worth $450 million are underway to help develop the sprawling capital Tehran’s water supply grid, managing director of Tehran Province’s Water and Wastewater Company said…

Water consumption in Semnan Province has increased this year due to the spread of the coronavirus and rise in temperature compared to two years ago before the pandemic, managing director of the…

Plans to supply desalinated water from the Persian Gulf and Caspian Sea to the arid and drought-hit plains of central Iran will only offer a temporary solution and cannot help fight drought in…

Babolsar County in Mazandaran Province will receive water from Alborz Dam, also known as Lafour Dam, by the end of August, managing director of the provincial regional water company said.

Water stored in Khuzestan Province’s dams has dwindled by a massive 5 billion cubic meters compared to a year ago, the head of Provincial Water and Electricity Company said. “Karkheh and Dez…

Mojen Dam in Shahroud County, Semnan Province, which overflowed two years ago due to good rainfall in the region, is currently about half empty. The dam has a capacity to hold 4.8 million cubic…

Transforming traditional wells into smart wells in Zanjan Province has helped reduce the extraction of underground water, the head of the provincial water company said.

The lack of comprehensive studies on cross-border water resources is striking, secretary for economic and financial affairs in the National Committee of Big Dams said.

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

The desalination unit of Shahid Salimi (Neka) Power Plant in Mazandaran Province was launched on Tuesday to help reduce the use of depleting groundwater resources. Constructed by domestic…

Since the beginning of the current water year (September 2020), the level of water in dams across Iran has declined by 30% year-on-year. Currently, dams in the country have 28.01 billion cubic…

A 70% decline in surface water resources of Kermanshah Province, which is the main source of drinking water supply to rural areas, has caused serious shortage of water in several villages,…

Fifteen water and wastewater projects costing $34 million were inaugurated in Yazd Province on Tuesday. Four water and wastewater projects became operational in Bafq County in the central…

Four projects have been initiated by Iran's Vice Presidential Office for Science and Technology to improve water resources and consumption management. Vice President Sorena Sattari provided a…

Drought has inflicted 670 trillion rials ($2.79 billion) worth of losses on Iran’s agriculture sector since the beginning of the current crop year. 

Two water projects were inaugurated in Ilam and Kermanshah provinces in western Iran on Thursday. Konjancham Dam in Mehran County, Ilam Province, was launched to help irrigate 2,750 hectares of…