Raeisi launches dozen projects in Kerman trip
Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi on Friday brought online a dozen development projects including water supply, water treatment, and power generation during a trip to Iran’s southeastern Kerman Province.
As part of his provincial tour, Raeisi visited Bam where he opened a long-awaited plan to transfer drinking water from a nearby dam to the historical desert city and its adjacent Baravat town.
The plan includes: A 57-kilometer-long pipeline, equipped with a pumping station capable of handling 970 liters per second; two water tanks with capacities of 10,000 and 5,000 cubic meters, respectively; a power line of 40 kilometers; and a water treatment plant that pumps 250 liters per second in the first phase and will reach a capacity of 1,500 liters once it goes fully operational.
Addressing the launch ceremony, Raeisi said the water project inaugurated in Bam was a segment of a larger initiative aimed at providing water to various parts of Kerman Province.
He added that every month a new phase of the comprehensive plan will be set in motion.
Moving on to the city of Rafsanjan, the president had a firsthand observation of a mega project that is estimated to bring 30 million cubic meters of water annually from the Persian Gulf to local industries and people in the provincial cities of Kerman and Rafsanjan. The pipeline has progressed by over 45 percent.
On the outskirts of Kerman city, Raeisi officially brought on stream the gas-feed section of a combined cycle power plant with a maximum capacity of 450 megawatts. The new natural gas sector generates 312 megawatts.
The power plant was built by a steel mill to meet its annual energy demand of 200 megawatts. The extra 150 megawatts will be injected into the national grid.