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Work Begins on 2 Desalination Plants in Southern Qeshm Island

EghtesadOnline: Construction of two desalination plants in Qeshm Island, Hormozgan Province, has started to improve water supply to rural areas , managing director of the Hormozgan Water and Wastewater Company said.
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Publish Date:14/March/2021 | 19:51

$285m Spent on Road Maintenance Since March 20

EghtesadOnline: A total of 70 trillion rials ($285 million) have been spent on repairing roads, patching asphalts and constructing asphalt roads in rural areas since the beginning of the current fiscal year (March 20, 2020), says Daryoush Amani, the head of Road Maintenance and Transportation Organization.
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Publish Date:14/March/2021 | 19:47

Q3 Underemployment at 10.6%

EghtesadOnline: Underemployment, the condition in which people in a labor force are employed for less than 44 hours of service per week, stood at 10.6% in the third quarter of the current Iranian year (Sept. 23-Dec. 21, 2019), down 1.1% year-on-year and was higher for men and those living in rural areas .
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Publish Date:14/January/2020 | 24:01

Provision of Clean Water to Villages Remains a Priority

EghtesadOnline: 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 Engineering Company said.
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Publish Date:01/June/2019 | 10:41

Poor Families Living in Rural Areas Bear Brunt of Sanctions

EghtesadOnline: Low-income households living in rural areas bear the brunt of US sanctions while high-income families living in both urban and rural areas reaped the benefits of international sanctions’ removal.
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Publish Date:31/October/2020 | 13:02

Universal Electrification in Rural Areas

EghtesadOnline: While rural electrification rate in the world is 76% (based on United Nations data), the figure is almost 100% in Iran, Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said.
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Publish Date:22/September/2019 | 13:37

Rural Electrification Noteworthy

EghtesadOnline: The number of rural areas linked to the national power grid has increased by 13 fold or 1.200% over the past four decades, the manager in charge of rural electricity expansion at the Power Generation, Distribution and Transmission Company (Tavanir) said.
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Publish Date:17/August/2019 | 10:35

Rural Areas Given Priority in Water Supply Programs

EghtesadOnline: Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said Wednesday 2,000 villages on the outskirts of urban and rural areas will be provided with potable water by the end of the current fiscal (started March 21).
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Publish Date:13/April/2019 | 14:54

Telecom Services Expanding in Iran Rural Areas

EghtesadOnline: Broadband Internet services will be available in almost all rural areas in Iran by the end of the next Iranian year (March 2020), according to the ICT Ministry.
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Publish Date:27/February/2019 | 24:15