Water
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Piped Water for Over 1,200 Villages in Three Months
EghtesadOnline: The Energy Ministry has announced that plans are underway to supply water to 1,219 villages in the next three months.
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Regional Water Conflicts Looming
EghtesadOnline: Leaders in the Middle East and North Africa region lack the political determination to solve water tensions in drought-stricken countries and a water conflict is looming, a former…
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Isfahan Woes Worsened by Illegal Water Wells, Land Subsidence
EghtesadOnline: In the past 16 years, a total of 7,635 unauthorized water wells have been sealed in Isfahan Province, which helped save over 215 million cubic meters of water a year in the dry…
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Water, Power Engineering Services Account for 60% of Techno Exports
EghtesadOnline: The water and power sectors have made a positive contribution to exports of technical and engineering services in the past few years, the energy minister said.
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Tehran Drought Worst in 50 Years
EghtesadOnline: Precipitation in Tehran Province has plummeted by a massive 97% since Sept. 23 (beginning of the current water year), which is unprecedented in the last 50 years, deputy for water…
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First Phase of Persian Gulf Desalinated Water Transfer to Fars Province Underway
EghtesadOnline: Water transfer from the Persian Gulf to Fars Province will address shortages in the industrial and drinking sectors, the energy minister said.
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800 Projects to Help Develop Tehran Water Supply Network
EghtesadOnline: 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…
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Rumors of Water Export to Persian Gulf Arab States Rejected
EghtesadOnline: The Energy Ministry has categorically denied claims that it is exporting water from Khuzestan Province to the Persian Gulf littoral states like Kuwait.
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Smart Meters Help Curb Water Consumption in Zanjan
EghtesadOnline: 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.
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Khuzestan’s Dams Struggling to Provide Water for Drinking, Irrigation, Power Generation
EghtesadOnline: Karkheh and Dez dams in Khuzestan Province, which overflowed two years ago due to torrential and unprecedented rainfall, are now about half empty and considering the sizzling…
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‘Water Bankruptcy’ Is Here
EghtesadOnline: Challenges in the face of water shortages in Iran have been long dubbed as a major crisis but the reality is that the country now is on the verge of water bankruptcy, the chairman…
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850-Km Pipeline to Divert Water From Persian Gulf to Kerman, Yazd
EghtesadOnline: The second construction phase of a project to divert water from the Persian Gulf to Kerman and Yazd provinces went on stream on Sunday, the minister of industries, mining and…
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Lake Urmia Inflow Improving
EghtesadOnline: With programs to revive Urmia Lake moving ahead, seven billion cubic meters of water from dams flowed into the world famous lake in the past decade and is increasing, head of…
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40% Decline in Precipitation
EghtesadOnline: Rainfall in Iran's six main catchment areas has plunged 40% since the beginning of the current water year in Sept. 2020.
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Water Access Improves in Fars
EghtesadOnline: Two dams, Molla Sadra and Tang-e-Khomar, were inaugurated in southern Fars Province on Tuesday. Located 140 kilometers from the provincial capital Shiraz, the first dam will help…
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Water Overuse Is a New Challenge in Mazandaran
EghtesadOnline: Overextraction from renewable and underground water resources in Mazandaran Province has become a new and serious challenge, managing director of the Regional Water Company said.…
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Dams Half Full
EghtesadOnline: Water stored in dams across Iran has reached 26.63 billion cubic meters, which is 1% less than the same time last year, the Energy Ministry news portal Paven reported.
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Work Underway to Improve Water Supply to Saveh: MP
EghtesadOnline: If all goes well water from Koochari Dam in central Isfahan Province will be transferred to Saveh County in Markazi Province in two years, the representative of Saveh and Zarandieh…
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Plan to Divert Water From Sea of Oman to South Khorasan
EghtesadOnline: With completion of water transfer from the Persian Gulf to Kerman Province, plans are underway to supply water from the southeast region to South Khorasan Province, the representative…
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Challenges of Water Management
EghtesadOnline: Availability of and access to water is the responsibility of those who manage this finite resource. Period. Professor Neda Torabi Farsani goes straight to the heart of the matter…
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Water Supplied to 8 Million Rural Population in 7 Years
EghtesadOnline: With the launch of water supply projects to 137 villages in Markazi and Fars provinces on Tuesday, the number villages with piped water has surpassed 12,100, the energy minister…
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17 Water, Power Projects Inaugurated in 3 Regions
EghtesadOnline: Seventeen power and water projects worth $23 million were inaugurated in three provinces on Tuesday. One is in Tehran, eight in the northeastern Golestan Province and eight in…
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Rainfall in Catchment Areas Is Down 45%
EghtesadOnline: Precipitation in Iran's six main catchment areas has decreased 45% since the beginning of the current water year that started on Sept. 22.
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Pandemic: Latest Threat to Water Sector
EghtesadOnline: The coronavirus has pushed the pause button on industries around the world and helped in curbing pollution in all its manifestations.
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Hormozgan Desalination Capacity Is on Fast Track
EghtesadOnline: In the past five years desalination capacity in southern Hormozgan Province has increased six fold, managing director of the Hormozgan Water and Wastewater Company said.
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Persian Gulf Water Reaches Kerman
EghtesadOnline: The first phase of a project to supply water from the Persian Gulf to Kerman Province went on stream on Thursday, head of the National Water and Wastewater Engineering Company…
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Tehran Supplying Water to Semnan’s Dry Rural Districts
EghtesadOnline: A water supply project in Sorkheh County, Semnan Province, became operational on Monday, Tehran Province Water and Wastewater Company (an Abfa subsidiary) managing director said.
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Tehran Water Distribution Improving
EghtesadOnline: Two water projects were inaugurated Thursday in Tehran Province to enhance water quality and increase supply in the ever-expanding metropolis, director of the National Water and…
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Tehran Water Treatment Capacity Rising
EghtesadOnline: To further improve potable water quality and curb land subsidence in Tehran Province, the first phase of a water treatment plant is complete and will become operational soon,…
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Power Plant in South Tehran Is a Handicap
EghtesadOnline: The average volume of water used to produce electricity in Besat Combined-Cycle Power Plant in south Tehran is 45 times above other power stations in the capital.