Azerbaijan, Baku, July 26/ Trend, R.Zamanov, N. Umid/
Tehran province's water consumption reached to 3.350 million cubic meters per day during last days due to rise of temperature, the Managing Director of Tehran Water and Wastewater Company Mohammad Parvaresh said, Mehr news agency reported.
Tehran's temperature reached to 42.4 degrees which caused capital's water consumption marked a new record in the past 2 days, the report said.
According to the report, average water consumption figure in Tehran stands on 2.700 million to 3 million cubic meters per day.
Tehran's water consumption volume has passed 3.200 million cubic meters just 7 days during past years, while the volume has surpassed the figure in 22 days of current solar year( started on March 21), Parvaresh said.
"Last day water volume in the reservoir which stored for extraordinary days decreased from 1.300 million cubic meters to 800,000 cubic meters," he said, adding that water consumption is 200,000 cubic meters more than water supply network's capacity.
Tehran Water and Wastewater Company announced in a statement on July 25 that Tehran province's water consumption is alarmingly high.
"If the consumption trend and the high temperature continue, there could be water shortages in Tehran in the coming days," the company announced previously, also asking the citizens to consume water responsibly.
According to the reports, Tehran's people experienced water interruption for few hours in some parts of capital, yesterday.
"Each 0.5 to 1 degree rise in the temperature will lead in the consumption of additional 100,000 cubic meters of water in the capital," the company added.
The Managing Director of Tehran Water and Wastewater Company Mohammad Parvaresh said on July 21 that Tehran province's water consumption has increased by 11 percent in summer compared to previous year.
Parvaresh also urged the citizens to decrease their water consumption, the IRNA News Agency reported.
Alireza Nozaripour, an official with Tehran Water and Wastewater Company said in June that Iran's precipitation faced a 30-percent decrease in the previous calendar year, which ended on March 20.
According to him, the reservoir of the country's dams has also decrease by 40 percent.