tag Water Crisis

Supply-Oriented Policies Cannot Help Resolve Iran’s Water Crisis

EghtesadOnline: 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 growing water crisis, an Iranian professor at the Concordia University, Quebec, Canada, said.
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Publish Date:04/October/2021 | 14:56

Iran’s Escalating Water Crisis Worsened by Neighboring States

EghtesadOnline: 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 Shahid Chamran University in Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province, said.
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Publish Date:15/September/2021 | 14:00

Tehran Water Crisis : More Rains But No Solace

EghtesadOnline: Higher precipitation in recent days has not defused Tehran’s water crisis that continues to worsen, head of the Base Studies Department in the provincial water company said.
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Publish Date:29/February/2020 | 06:34

Isfahan Improving, Expanding Wastewater Systems

EghtesadOnline: To help ease the water crisis in the drought-stricken central plateau, a wastewater treatment plant will become operational in Ezhieh in Isfahan Province, head of the provincial water company said.
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Publish Date:18/January/2020 | 13:11

RCUWM Meeting in Tehran: 16 Nations Discuss Water Issues

EghtesadOnline: The water crisis unfolding across continents is a global challenge that needs to be addressed through meaningful collaboration and networking, the officer-in-charge of the UNESCO Tehran cluster office said in Tehran Thursday on the sidelines of a meeting of the board of governors of the Regional Centre for Urban Water Management.
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Publish Date:07/December/2019 | 11:24

Iran's Inter-Basin Water Transfer Schemes Challenged

EghtesadOnline: Diverting water from the Oman Sea to alleviate the water crisis in Sistan-Baluchestan, South Khorasan and Khorasan Razavi provinces is on the agenda, but it should not be the last resort, deputy for water and wastewater affairs at the Energy Ministry said.
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Publish Date:15/September/2019 | 10:43

Cloud Seeding Unable to Resolve Water Problem

EghtesadOnline: Cloud seeding initiatives, which are primarily aimed at increasing rainfall, cannot help resolve the deepening water crisis of the country.
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Publish Date:11/August/2018 | 11:13

Unraveling the Water Crisis

EghtesadOnline: There is a substantial difference between water consumption patterns in the developed and the developing world.
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Publish Date:06/October/2020 | 20:18

Water Crisis Getting Severe

EghtesadOnline: Large volumes of underground water that were supposed to be consumed over the next century have already been used in the last five decades, an environmentalist and head of the Environment Committee for Social Health Department of UNESCO said.
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Publish Date:12/August/2020 | 10:42

Millions Move Out as Water Crisis Deepens

EghtesadOnline: Dwindling underground water resources have forced 20 million people from small towns and villages to the countryside in the last two decades, deputy head of the Underground Water Resources Protection Unit of Iran Water Resource Management said.
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Publish Date:11/January/2020 | 13:41

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

Tehran Groundwater Resources in Bad Shape

EghtesadOnline: Recent rainfall has by no means eased Tehran’s water crisis that has been a source of serious concern for years, managing director of Tehran Province Water and Wastewater Company said.
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Publish Date:26/November/2019 | 11:26

Cloud Seeding to Help Ease Water Crisis in Iran

EghtesadOnline: Despite higher precipitation in October, which was 33% more compared to last year same time, average rainfall was lower than the global average. However, rainfall can be increased by cloud seeding, head of the National Cloud Seeding Research Center of Iran said.
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Publish Date:10/November/2019 | 24:19

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

ECO Bank Funds Birjand Wastewater Plant

EghtesadOnline: Wastewater treatment and use of recycled water in the agricultural and industrial sectors can help tackle the worsening water crisis in drought-stricken South Khorasan Province, head of the provincial water company said.
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Publish Date:20/October/2019 | 13:37

Water Crisis Will Cripple Iran's Future Economic Plans

EghtesadOnline: A conference was held last week at the Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA) in Mashhad to discuss the root causes of rising water tensions, consequences and strategies to address the thorny problem.
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Publish Date:08/September/2019 | 24:10

Renewed Alarm Over Water Crisis in Iran

EghtesadOnline: The water crisis in Iran is a serious concern and neglecting the issue will have irreversible consequences, said the head of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture in Tehran, Monday.
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Publish Date:05/March/2019 | 13:17

Iranian MP Sees 3 Ways to Solve Southeast Water Crisis

EghtesadOnline: Deep-sea explorations, curbing evaporation and transferring (desalination) water from the Oman Sea to Sistan-Baluchestan Province are three major strategies to solve the worsening water crisis in the southeast, a Zabol lawmaker said.
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Publish Date:05/February/2019 | 15:18