Iran wasting staggering amount of water every year
By Trend
An official with Iran's National Water and Wastewater
Engineering Company said a staggering 700 million cubic meters of
water are wasted in the country annually.
"The total amount of water loss in Iran amounts to 25.5 percent,"
Ali Seyedzadeh told ILNA.
He further said that the average amount of water loss in developed countries stands at 15 percent every year, adding that Iran, based on the country’s 6th Development Plan, should reduce this amount by correcting its consumption patterns.
He further said that 1.5 trillion toman is needed in order to
tackle this problem.
Some 170,000 illegal water wells in Iran have emerged as a major
problem for the water authorities trying to curb the high
extraction and consumption rates, namely in key agricultural
regions.
In spite of all warnings, the excessive withdrawal of water from
aquifers continues in the agriculture sector, which is hardly
justified or profitable.
About 92% of the country’s water resources are used up by
unsustainable and wasteful farming practices.
Experts predict that the country’s water scarcity will hit crisis
level by 2025, when available renewable water will be less than
1,000 cubic meters per capita, down from 2,000 cubic meters in
1950.
They say if water consumption patterns do not change in the near
future, many parts of the country will turn into barren desert
while entire towns and villages will become uninhabitable.
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