Baku, Azerbaijan, Apr.25
By Fatih Karimov - Trend:
Iran has allocated $1 billion to establish modern irrigation systems.
The country's deputy energy minister Rahim Meidani said that a large percentage of the budget which is allocated to the water sector, is wasted due to improper agriculture and irrigation methods, Iran's IRNA news agency reported on April 25.
Some countries earn $2-3 of added value per each cubic meter of water, while the figure is just 30 cents in Iran, he said.
In August 2013, ILNA news agency quoted member of Research institute of Forests and Rangelands, Mohammad Darvish as saying that some 65 percent of Iran's water sources are being wasted in agriculture sector due to mismanagement.
Darvish said that, just 6 percent of Iran's 130 billion cubic meters of extractable water sources are used as drinking water, adding that, the figure indicates that Iran should not be facing water shortage, and yet it does, due to mismanagement.
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