Safdar Niazi Shahraki also said that 50 percent of the projects of the ministry are related to water and soil, reported IRNA
Niazi Shahraki pointed to the smarting of the irrigation system and noted that intelligent irrigation systems should replace the current systems and the country should employ irrigation systems according to the world’s most modern technologies.
Meanwhile, the chief executive of Iran’s East Azerbaijan Regional Water Company said on Tuesday that the Qiz Qalasi Dam, the largest joint water project between Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan, will become operational in the coming days.
The construction operation of the dam, which is the most important project in the northwest of the country, has been completed and it will be inaugurated in the coming days in the presence of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his Azeri counterpart Ilham Aliyev, Yousef Ghaffarzadeh stated.
The project, which includes the development of the Khoda Afarin reservoir dam 196km downstream of the Aras River with a capacity of 1.6 billion cubic meters has been fully designed and implemented by expert Iranian engineers, he emphasized.