Southern provinces of Iran face issue of drought and water salinity

Over the past several years, because of droughts in the southern regions of Iran, water salinity and water quality was lost due to evaporation and heat, a member of the Agriculture, Water and Natural Resources Commission of the Iranian Parliament Seyed Razi Nouri told Trend.

"In the southern provinces, there is a shortage of water, in addition to the environmental problems,” Nouri said.

"Over the last few years, credits from the National Development Fund for the improvement of environmental conditions were provided. While the credit have been allocated every year, there are still problems in this area.”

"After a long time, water pumping stations have been opened for supplies from the Karun River in Khuzestan province to the Shadegan International Wetland to solve the problem of water scarcity in the low rainfall years,” he added.

Nouri went on to mention the most important water problem in the south of the country. "Non-standard damming is the most important source of water issue,” he said.