{"id":24945,"date":"2018-06-22T21:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T20:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news1613067580\/news-sp-256\/society\/24945-iranian-people-in-search-of-water"},"modified":"2023-01-19T00:03:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T23:03:38","slug":"iranian-people-in-search-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/society\/iranian-people-in-search-of-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian People in Search of Water"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"water<\/p>\n

By Mahmoud Hakamian<\/p>\n

Iran is burning with a water crisis <\/a>that, according to regime officials, has now turned into one of the country\u2019s six super challenges.<\/p>\n

But what are the dimensions of the crisis and how much has it grown?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to Water and Wastewater Company\u2019s monitoring office, of the 334 water stressed cities across the country, 107 are marked in red, meaning that they are highly exposed. The list includes such big cities like Isfahan, Shiraz, Bandar-Abbas, Bushehr, Kerman and Mashhad,\u201d reports regime\u2019s Khabar TV channel on May 3, 2018.<\/p>\n

Also in this regard, Rouhani government\u2019s Energy Minister \u2018Reza Ardakanian\u2019 says \u201cit\u2019s predicted that 334 cities with a total population of 35 million be exposed to water stress this coming summer.\u201d (State-run Tasnim news agency, April 22, 2018)<\/p>\n

Earlier, regime\u2019s head of Environment Department \u2018Isa Kalantari\u2019 had also warned over the country\u2019s drought crisis, saying \u201cif we keep going on like this, 70 percent of the country\u2019s population, accounting for 50 million, will have to emigrate from the country to stay alive. More than 150 billion cubic meters of the country\u2019s total 200 billion groundwater resources has been used up and if we keep exploiting at the current rate, there\u2019ll be no water resources left for the country\u2019s future generations. In addition to the groundwater, we are also totally exploiting our renewable water resources.\u201d(State-run Khabaronline website, April 23, 2018)<\/p>\n

According to regime\u2019s Ministry of Energy, Iran\u2019s annual water consumption is about 97 billion cubic meters. That\u2019s while the country\u2019s total groundwater resources is estimated to be only 88 billion, meaning that 110 percent of the country\u2019s renewable water resources are being used. This is a really horrific disaster, particularly considering that no country in the world is allowed to consume more than 40 percent of its renewable water resources.<\/p>\n

What factors have given rise to the country\u2019s super challenge of a water crisis?<\/strong><\/p>\n

70 percent of Iran\u2019s water consumption belongs to the country\u2019s agriculture, while 22 percent is used by the industry sector. As the regime is the record holder of holding the country back, Iran\u2019s agriculture is still based on flood irrigation, the same irrigation method that was practiced during the Median Empire nearly 2700 years ago, so that more than 80 percent or nearly 54 billion cubic meters of water used in agriculture is wasted due to lack of modern technology. (Journalists Club, May 21, 2018)<\/p>\n

Due to this type of outdated irrigation method, producing such agricultural crops like wheat, apple, potato, and other highly water-consuming products are several times more costly compared to their world prices. This means that rather than upgrading the Median type agriculture to the modern and mechanized one, the country\u2019s water resources have been destroyed under the pretext of self-sufficiency.<\/p>\n

The next detrimental factor is regime\u2019s dam-building policy. While there was only 30 dams in Iran before the 1979 revolution, the number of the country\u2019s small and big dams has now reached to 647, with another 683 either under construction or planned to be built.<\/p>\n

While regime\u2019s unrestricted dam-building policy has irreparably hurt and actually swallowed the country\u2019s water resources, the Revolutionary Guards has been the one and only beneficiary of the policy, making huge profits throughout the entire process of designing, constructing and exploiting dams.<\/p>\n

Besides, the dams are mainly used by regime\u2019s military and other industries that are run by the Revolutionary Guards and other state-owned entities. As an instance, Isfahan\u2019s Mobarakeh Steel Company, as the country\u2019s biggest steel producer, consumes nearly 27 million cubic meter of water. In comparison, the city of Isfahan\u2019s total water consumption is about 476 million, according to the city\u2019s Water and Wastewater Company. This means that the water consumed by the Astan-e-Quds and Basij owned factory equals nearly six percent of Isfahan\u2019s total water consumption.<\/p>\n

Having been set up in a totally wrong place, there are still other highly water-consuming factories in the city, including Isfahan\u2019s Zob Ahan, Petrochemical, Refinery, pipe manufacturing and textile industries.<\/p>\n

Digging deep water wells is also another factor leading to destruction of the country\u2019s water resources. The country\u2019s 754 thousand water wells, of which 301 thousands are unpermitted, have played a major role in destroying the country\u2019s groundwater resources. While the number of water wells in 1979 was only 36,000, the figure is now 20 times higher despite the fact that the country\u2019s population has only doubled during the period. This is totally due to an extensive corruption among regime officials who are bribed into giving permits to regime-linked entities, the Revolutionary Guards in particular, to dig deep water wells, thereby plundering Iran\u2019s groundwater as well as nonrenewable water resources.<\/p>\n

The regime meanwhile insists on less water usage while trying to put the blame for water shortage on people and households\u2019 excessive water consumption, thus to justify the increased water prices. But is it really the households\u2019 consumption that has led to the country\u2019s water crisis?<\/p>\n

According to regime\u2019s Khabar TV channel on April 24, 2018, the country\u2019s per capita water consumption is between 150 and 160 liters a day, which could be reduced to world standard\u2019s 110 liter without affecting the living quality.<\/p>\n

But let\u2019s assume that Iranian consumers reduce their water consumption not to 110 liters a day, but to zero. Will that resolve the country\u2019s water crisis? We\u2019ll soon find out:<\/p>\n

Considering Iran\u2019s 81 million population, the country\u2019s maximum annual water consumption will be 4.75 billion cubic meters, assuming that each person consumes 160 liters of water every day. This accounts for less than five percent of the country\u2019s 97-billion-cubic-meter water consumption. It\u2019s clear that at only 5 percent, households\u2019 water consumption can\u2019t play a major part in the country\u2019s water crisis.<\/p>\n

In short, regime\u2019s unrestricted dam-building policy at the cost of destroying country\u2019s forests and wetlands, an extremely outdated agriculture, stealing water and diverting it to the military and other industries run by the Revolutionary Guards, and excessively digging water wells, among others, are the major factors that have destroyed the country\u2019s water resources and exposed many of Iran\u2019s provinces to an unprecedented water stress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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