Head of the Crisis Management Organization: Drinking water will be supplied to 7,000 villages by tankers
The head of Iran's Crisis Management Organization has announced that 7,000 villages and more than 20 households in the country will be supplied with drinking water by tanker.
On Sunday, May 12, Ismail Najjar told the ILNA news agency that, given the forecast of drought this year and a 49 percent decrease in rainfall, the government has been proposed an amount of three trillion tomans to provide drinking water, and the cost of providing water to these 7,000 villages will come from this budget.
Before the beginning of 1400, some officials had warned of an upcoming drought by announcing a decrease in rainfall in 2019 and a continuation of this situation this year.
In March 2020, Chabahar representative Esmail Hosseinzahi announced the critical water situation in Sistan and Baluchestan province, especially drinking water, and reported the emptying of some villages in the province and an increase in the wave of migration from them.
Moinuddin Saeedi, a representative from Chabahar, had previously said that Sistan and Baluchestan province has the "lowest drinking water access index" in the country, with only 19 percent of its residents having access to clean drinking water.
Lack of access to sufficient and safe drinking water is not limited to hot and dry regions of Iran.
In a video that was posted on social media in recent days, women from the village of Naqdi, located in Ardabil province, protested the lack of drinking water by blocking the road.
Source: Radio Farda
