Saravan Representative: Water Supply Crisis Critical Even with Tanker Trucks

The representative of Saravan in the Islamic Consultative Assembly identified “water shortage” as the “biggest problem” in this region and reported a water supply crisis even with tanker trucks in various parts of the city.

Malek Fazeli told ILNA news agency that there has always been “concern” about water scarcity in this region, but “this year, when rainfall has been virtually zero…it has become acute and more critical.”

Referencing the drying up of “most” of the wells in Saravan county, he reported the region’s facing a “water supply crisis” and said the crisis is so severe that “even in some central neighborhoods of the city we are facing water shortages.”

Saravan’s representative criticized the shortage of tanker trucks for water supply and said that “in this hot season when people cannot be left without water, the number of water supply tankers must be increased.”

Essa Kalantari, head of the Environmental Organization, said in late Ordibehesht this year, referring to the expansion of the water resources crisis in Iran: “A water war between provinces has begun” and this war “is spreading from province to province, from village to village.”

Water shortage and water transfer projects in some Iranian provinces in recent years have repeatedly led to rallies and subsequent clashes between people and law enforcement.

Source: Radio Farda