Water Crisis in Iran

Years of drought have left decision-makers with little option but to meet a bigger share of freshwater need for the growing population from seawater, said the deputy for supervising operations…

Promoting judicious water consumption is no more workable in tackling the worsening water crisis, nor costly methods such as cloud seeding can help, says a water expert.

Esmail Shahbazi…

Water in dams surrounding the capital in the last water year (Sept. 23, 2017-Sept. 22, 2018) has declined by 210 million cubic meters -- a 25% decrease compared to the corresponding period last…

To compensate for the widespread drought in Iran, 30 billion cubic meters of seawater should be desalinated and transferred to areas struggling with water shortage, a member of the parliament…

There is no more available capacity to implement new water supply schemes in the capital and the only viable strategy is to manage the demand, a water expert at Tehran Regional Water Authority…

Already strained by a sharp fall in precipitation during the closing water year (began September 23, 2017), the southern coastline is not expected to receive a normal amount of rainfall during…

Tehran's residents consume 840 million cubic meters of groundwater reserves per annum, 40 mcm more than the aquifers’ annual intake, the managing director of Tehran Province Water and Wastewater…

Industrialists are planning to fund the project to transfer water from Oman Sea to the drought-hit Yazd Province in central Iran, which is the most realistic option to help supply water.

Austrian Ambassador in Tehran Stefan Scholz expressed his side’s readiness to engage in academic cooperation with Iran on resolving the water crisis.

Identifying sustainable water and energy consumption patterns to meet the current and future generations' needs tops the Energy Ministry's agenda.

Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian made…

Groundwater reserves in Tehran Province have fallen by 150 million cubic meters per annum, the director for water reserves conservation at the Regional Water Company of Tehran said.

Cloud seeding initiatives, which are primarily aimed at increasing rainfall, cannot help resolve the deepening water crisis of the country.

Abbas Soroush, a deputy for water affairs at…

Iran's reserves of groundwater are being depleted at an alarming rate because of poor management and excessive consumption in the agricultural sector, an environmental expert warned.

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Iran will face widespread water shortage sooner-than-expected if water price is not adjusted, Energy Minister Reza Ardekanian said on Friday.

“While the price of a 0.5-liter bottle of…

A water desalination plant, with a capacity of treating 10,000 cubic meters of saltwater daily, has been launched in Bandar Torkaman in the west of Golestan Province.

By ignoring the fact that the country's ominous water crisis is rooted in weak diplomatic relations with neighboring states, namely Afghanistan and Iraq, some still think dam construction is…

Iran's sovereign-wealth fund has approved the investment of 196 trillion rials ($4.6 billion) for water and agriculture ventures in the current fiscal year (started March 21).

While climate change is said to have exacerbated Iran's already prevailing water shortage, experts maintain it is the absence of proper management of resources that has plunged the country into…

Head of the Department of Environment Isa Kalantari warned about the environmental implications of a national food self-sufficiency policy, singling out an escalating water crisis. 

In the wake of severe drought affecting 334 cities with a combined population of 37million over the past two years, the administration has allocated $237 million to undertake 195 water projects…

An urgent water pipeline project is expected to curb the growing water crisis in the cities of Abadan, Khorramshahr, Darkhovein and Shadegan in the southern Khuzestan Province within two weeks…

Around 56% of the water consumed in Iran’s agriculture sector goes to waste due to improper usage, an advisor to deputy agriculture minister for water and soil affairs. “During the years before…

Despite the promising springtime rainfalls that improved the figures for the season, the total precipitation is still 29% below its long-term average, a senior official at Iran Meteorological…

Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian stressed the need to focus on adopting pragmatic approaches for judicious water consumption so as to achieve sustainable development.

Neighboring states' operations to control transboundary waters—the shared aquifers, lakes and river basins—have exacerbated the severe water shortage in Iran, a former member of World Water…