Iran providing greater access to drinking water: Report

The Iranian government has worked hard over the past two years to provide greater access to drinking water for citizens in towns and villages across the country, according to findings of a report.

The Thursday report by the ISNA news agency showed that access to drinking water in Iran had reached 99.83% in cities and 82% in villages of the country.

The report said the rate for access to safe water in Iran is much higher than a global average of 85.7% in urban regions and 59.6% in rural areas, adding that the rate is 83.2% and 69.5%, respectively, in countries of the West Asian region.

The report investigated efforts made by the current administrative government in Iran to expand the country’s water infrastructures exactly two years after it came to office.

It said access to drinking water had been expanded over the past two years to cover nearly 4.75 million people living in some 10,000 villages across Iran.

The figures showed that Iran had launched 12 new water treatment facilities and 24 wastewater treatment plants over the two years to the end of July.

The number of desalination plants in Iran had increased by 6 units with a capacity of 54,000 cubic meters per day over the past two years, it said, adding that wastewater recycling capacity in the country had risen by 324 million cubic meters per year over the same period. 

The report said Iranian companies had become increasingly involved in manufacturing equipment needed in water projects in the country, adding that some 80% of equipment needed in water treatment facilities and some 65% of the equipment needed in wastewater treatment plants are currently sourced from domestic suppliers in Iran.

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