EghtesadOnline: In the current week marking the 39th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, 100 water and wastewater plans in urban and rural areas worth over 100 trillion rials ($2.1 billion) will come on stream, the energy minister said.

EghtesadOnline: Iran’s wastewater treatment plants have a processing capacity of approximately 6.4 million liters per day, 24% of which were created in the past four years, the managing director of state-run National Water and Wastewater Engineering Company said.

EghtesadOnline: A wastewater treatment plant in Dogonbadan, capital city of Gachsaran County in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad Province, was inaugurated by Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian on Wednesday.

EghtesadOnline: A group of Danish water companies signed three memoranda of understanding with Iranian firms operating in water and wastewater engineering projects.

EghtesadOnline: Preserving water resources and reforming the national wastewater system amid a chronic water crisis are front and center to plans of Reza Ardakanian, Iran's new energy minister who boasts environmentally-friendly credentials.

EghtesadOnline: At least 30% of Iran's water and wastewater infrastructure, including a dilapidated supply network that is a major source of water loss due to leakages, require repairs, the caretaker energy minister, Sattar Mahmoudi, said this week.

EghtesadOnline: The processing capacity of wastewater treatment plants in Iran has increased by more than a quarter in the last four years, Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian said on Friday.