Four water desalination units to open in Iran’s south
Four water desalination units to be launched in the southern provinces of Hormuzgan and Bushehr by the end of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2024), announced the managing director of the Water and Waste Organization on Tuesday.
There are 105 water desalination projects across the country, of which 87 water desalination plants with a total daily capacity of 511,185 cubic meters are in operation, Hashem Amini said, reported IRNA.
Another 18 water desalination units are being built across the country with a capacity of 90,150 cubic meters per day, of which four units in Bushehr and Hormugan provinces with a total capacity of about 25,000 cubic meters per day will enter service by the end of this Iranian year.
In 15 other provinces, the construction of water softening units is on the agenda, and we hope that by allocating the required credits, their construction process will continue at an accelerated pace.
Last year, Iran launched a major project to transfer desalinated water from the Persian Gulf to three provinces in its arid central regions.
The project includes a 730-kilometer pipeline for transferring up to 200 million cubic meters per year of desalinated water to Yazd, Kerman and Isfahan from desalination plants in Sirik, located on the easternmost mouth of the Persian Gulf.