Financial Tribune - Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian says tapping into the sea to produce potable water is on the agenda because it is more feasible for sustainable supplies rather than depleting drying underground resources. "Feasibility studies to build new desalination plants to provide drinking water in the southern regions is over and work will ...

Financial Tribune - The project to supply water to Kerman City, in southern Kerman Province, will be completed in two months, the managing director of the National Water and Wastewater Engineering Company said. Contractors are laying pipes in different regions so that water is transferred from existing wells as an emergency measure to help alleviate ...

Financial Tribune - Despite the fact that dams and Chah-Nimeh water reservoirs are full, residents in Sistan-Baluchestan Province are still suffering from the shortage of safe drinking water supply, the provincial Friday prayer leader said. "Heavy rainfall in April and May notwithstanding, households have to pay large sums of money to have their ...

Tehran, Dec 23, IRNA President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that drinking water supply to the Tehrani citizens is among concerns of his government. 'One of the concerns of the 11th government since it took office has been providing people of Tehran with drinking water and its quality,' President Rouhani told reporters on sidelines of ceremony ...