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2019-06-15 21:43
11m ha of plains require aquifer, watershed management
TEHRAN – Some 11 million hectares of the country’s plains need watershed and aquifer management plans, so they must be prepared in this regard, director of watershed management at Forests, Rangelands, and Watershed Management Organization has said.
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2019-06-08 19:44
18 densely populated provinces threatened by land subsidence, study reveals
TEHRAN – According to a study carried out by the Transport, Housing and Urban Development Research Center, some 18 densely populated provinces are vastly subsiding and consequently become increasingly vulnerable to flooding and natural incidents as well as bearing huge infrastructure damage.
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2019-06-04 12:04
50bcm of groundwater withdrawn annually in Iran
TEHRAN – An annual amount of 50 billion cubic meters of groundwater resources are withdrawn to supply agricultural, industrial as well as drinking water in Iran, a researcher in the field of water resources has stated.
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2019-04-24 11:48
‘It’s simplistic to believe that recent floods recharge groundwater resources’
TEHRAN — Believing that groundwater resources will be simply recharged after recent floods is simplistic and unscientific, head of groundwater resources department at Qom Province Regional Water Company has said.
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2018-11-14 20:52
‘Recent heavy rainfall not to compensate for water scarcity’
TEHRAN — Since the beginning of autumn, the country has been poured with rain, experiencing a 14 millimeters increase compared to the long-term average, nevertheless the water scarcity or the severe drop in groundwater resources are not compensated, director for drought and crisis management department at Iran’s Meteorological Organization has said.
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2018-09-26 09:57
Land subsidence a dire threat to Tehran
TEHRAN — Depletion of groundwater resources and pumping water excessively out of the ground at a faster rate that is replenished over the long-term have led to land subsidence and constitute a serious threat to Tehran.
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2018-08-17 20:43
‘There is a need to reform water policies’
TEHRAN — There is a need to make changes to general water policies so that they are run in a more effective way, an environmental official has said.
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2018-08-11 17:46
Tehran refinery oil leak contaminates groundwater resources
TEHRAN — Oil leak from Tondgouyan refinery, southern Tehran, to nearby groundwater resources used for irrigation has contaminated the water and caused it to become unsafe and unfit for human use.
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2018-07-28 08:48
‘Iran’s renewable water resources decreased by 25% in 5 decades’
TEHRAN — Renewable water resources has drastically decreased to less than 100 billion cubic meters from 132 bcm over the past 50 years, environmental official Mohammad Mojabi has said.
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2018/01/13
By Maryam Qarehgozlou
Using fossil water is a soft option, reappraise it
First Vice-President Es’haq Jahangiri has recently ordered studying the possibility of tapping into the country’s underground supplies of fossil water.
