Head of Iran’s Crisis Management Organization: Drinking Water for 7,000 Villages to Be Supplied by Tanker

The head of Iran’s Crisis Management Organization has announced that drinking water for 7,000 villages with more than 20 households across the country will be supplied by tanker.

Ismail Najjar said on Sunday, April 1st, to ILNA news agency that given the forecast of drought this year and a 49 percent decrease in rainfall, a budget of three thousand billion tomans has been proposed to the government for supplying drinking water, with the cost of providing water to these 7,000 villages coming from this budget.

Even before the start of the year 1400, some officials had warned about the drought ahead by announcing the decrease in rainfall in the year 99 and the continuation of this situation this year.

Ismail Hosseinzahi, representative of Chabahar, announced in the month of Esfand 99 the critical water situation in Sistan and Baluchestan province, particularly drinking water, reporting the emptying of some villages in the province of residents and the increase in migration waves from them.

Meinedin Saeidi, representative of Chabahar, had previously said that Sistan and Baluchestan province has “the lowest rate of access to drinking water index” in the country and only 19 percent of its residents have access to sanitary drinking water.

Lack of access to sufficient and clean drinking water is not limited only to hot and dry regions of Iran.

In a video released on social media in recent days, women of Nagdi village in Ardabil province protested the lack of drinking water by blocking the road.

Source: Radio Farda