Iran Launches Ambitious Project to Bring Caspian Sea Water to Central Desert

FARS News, 17 April 2012

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad launched a $1.25 billion project to bring water for drinking and irrigation from the Caspian Sea to its central desert.

The initial phase will see a desalination plant and pipes built over the next two years to supply water to the desert city of Semnan with a population of 200,000, according to officials.

"The desert is growing... therefore we need to control its growth," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a speech in the Northern city of Sari, near the Caspian shore.

The first phase would see water for drinking, irrigation and industrial use taken from the Caspian, treated to rid it of salt, and pumped to Semnan, 150 kilometers (90 miles) away to the South.

The first desalination plant to be built would have a capacity of 200 million cubic meters per year, or 548 million liters a day, according to Energy Minister Majid Namjou.

Khatam al-Anbiya group is handling work on the project.

Later, two other phases are planned that would pump more water into desert areas from the Caspian Sea and from the Persian Gulf.

Iran has operated several other desalination plants for decades for other regions.

Such seawater treatment facilities are also in use in other wealthy and arid Middle East countries, including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Occupied Palestine (Israel), to augment scarce water supplies.

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