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Abfa Chief: Need for Avoiding Water Tensions

EghtesadOnline: From the foothills of the Taurus Mountains in Turkey where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers are fed to the desert Wadis on both sides of the Nile, the history of water conflicts provides a cautionary note.
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Publish Date:26/January/2020 | 11:36

TRWC Chief: Tehran Rainfall Unprecedented in Half Century

EghtesadOnline: Tehran dams presently have 634 million cubic meters of water, up 85 million cubic meters compared to this time last year, managing director of Tehran Regional Water Company said.
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Publish Date:20/January/2020 | 13:37

Need to Reduce Water Evaporation in Iran Dams

EghtesadOnline: A whopping 3 billion cubic meters of water evaporates annually from dams nationwide, head of water technology development workgroup at the Presidential Office for Science and Technology said.
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Publish Date:19/January/2020 | 24:30

Water Levels in Iran's Southern Dams Rising After Years

EghtesadOnline: Deluge in the past few days in southern and southeastern Iran has inflicted damages on cities, villages and roads and endangered lives. But at the same time it has helped fill dams that saw little water in years.
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Publish Date:14/January/2020 | 11:59

Abfa Expanding Water Supply Network

EghtesadOnline: Iran’s water supply network stretches over 460,000 kilometers, but there still are 10,000 small towns and villages with no access to piped water, director of the National Water and Wastewater Engineering Company of Iran (Abfa) said.
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Publish Date:08/January/2020 | 11:34

Rewriting Water Management in Iran

EghtesadOnline: Efficient management of demand and developing effective resource management techniques (compared to water transfer projects) would be more practical in addressing water crisis, but in practice have been largely neglected in Iran.
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Publish Date:07/January/2020 | 24:58

Water Desalination Taking Center Stage in Bandar Abbas

EghtesadOnline: The second development phase of Bandar Abbas water desalination unit in Hormozgan Province became operational on Thursday, managing director of the provincial Water and Wastewater Company said.
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Publish Date:05/January/2020 | 11:56

Oman Sea Water Supply to 3 Provinces From February

EghtesadOnline: The plan to supply water from the Oman Sea in south Iran to three eastern provinces will begin in February, deputy director of Khorasan Razavi Regional Water Company said.
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Publish Date:30/December/2019 | 24:52

Iran Desalination Capacity to Reach Half Million cm/d

EghtesadOnline: Sixty desalination plants produce 250,000 cubic meters of water per day in the coastal regions, namely Khuzestan, Hormozgan and Bushehr, deputy chief engineer with the National Water and Wastewater Engineering Company said.
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Publish Date:02/December/2019 | 11:58

Minister vows inaugurating nine thermal power stations, 10 dams

EghtesadOnline: Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said nine thermal power stations and 10 dams will be inaugurated in various Iranian provinces aiming to take advantage of water and hydro-electric energy.
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Publish Date:18/November/2019 | 24:33

Water Paucity Taking Toll on Development Projects

EghtesadOnline: Petrochemical, fertilizer and refinery projects with annual capacity to manufacture 5 million tons are facing rough times and some have been put on hold as the water problems worsen.
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Publish Date:10/November/2019 | 13:07

Water Crisis in Iran: Pushing to the Brink

EghtesadOnline: As access to water becomes a herculean task in countries big and small, an increasing number of regions worldwide are facing a looming crisis that has become a serious cause of concern threatening livelihoods from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
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Publish Date:30/October/2019 | 11:34

Higher Rainfall Has No Space for Complacency

EghtesadOnline: Since September 23 (the beginning of the current water year), water flowing into dams has reached 2 billion cubic meters -- up 87% compared to last year.
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Publish Date:28/October/2019 | 24:57

Renewed Opposition to Inter-Basin Water Transfer in Iran

EghtesadOnline: Despite the fact that inter-basin transfer of water to far-flung locations has long been seriously challenged in most countries, some policymakers in Iran persist in implementing the costly but hardly successful projects, the deputy agriculture minister for agronomy affairs said.
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Publish Date:22/October/2019 | 13:35

Groundwater Reserves Depleting Rapidly in Zanjan

EghtesadOnline: Deep water wells in Zanjan Province are dragging the region into trouble of the kind that the region may soon be unable to supply enough water to farmers.
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Publish Date:13/October/2019 | 07:39

Yazd Resorting to Smart Systems to Save Water

EghtesadOnline: Projects to decrease groundwater extraction in Yazd Province have helped reduce the rate of depletion of groundwater in plains and aquifers.
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Publish Date:12/October/2019 | 13:27