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Number Seven Thousand Nine Hundred and Fourteen - 28 August 2025
Iran Daily - Number Seven Thousand Nine Hundred and Fourteen - 28 August 2025 - Page 3
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Gov’t building 88 dams, handling 124 projects to address water crisis

Hamid Pourmohammadi, who presides over Iran’s Planning and Budget Organization (PBO), announced on Tuesday that President Masoud Pezeshkian’s government is pressing ahead with large-scale infrastructure projects to address the country’s growing water crisis, highlighting efforts under way during the past year.
“Eighty-eight dams with an annual regulation capacity of about 7.5 billion cubic meters are under construction,” the PBO chief said, as reported by IRNA.
“As many as 124 water supply projects with a capacity to provide 6.5 billion cubic meters of drinking water annually for cities and villages along the routes, designed for the next 25 years and backed by 240 trillion rials in the budget law, are being implemented,” he added.
Pourmohammadi stressed that, given climate change, declining rainfall and reduced per capita water availability, and the mounting importance of the water crisis compared with other imbalances, “broad planning and measures have been undertaken to secure the country’s water supply.”
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