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2025-03-09 13:11
Rainfall drops 41% this water year, raising reservoir crisis concerns
TEHRAN - Iran has experienced a 41 percent decline in rainfall compared to the long-term average, leading to critically low water reserves in several regions, a senior water industry official warned.
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2023-09-18 15:26
Water wells consume 65% of groundwater resources: expert
TEHRAN – Some two-thirds of the country’s groundwater resources are annually consumed by water wells which are used for irrigation, an expert on water resources has said.
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2022-11-14 16:55
By Faranak Bakhtiari
A million wells that depleted water resources
TEHRAN – Considering the current situation of water scarcity, the experts’ warnings of two decades ago about the occurrence of a water crisis have come to pass and there is no way to solve it except with the help of universities and scientific institutions.
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2022-09-09 22:08
By M.A. Saki
Self-sufficiency in rice production is injudicious, dangerous
TEHRAN - Agriculture Minister Seyyed Javad Sadatinejad has made some remarks on production of basic crops such as wheat and rice.