Water inputs to Iran’s dams decreased by 18% compared to last year

According to Energy Press, Firoz Ghasemzadeh said about the impact of recent rains on dams and underground water reserves: We haven’t had good rainfall conditions in the country for 4 years now, and in almost one year with a 37% decrease in rainfall, in the second year it was 18%. In the third year, 13 to 14% and this year, we have a 33% decrease in rainfall compared to normal conditions, and this has caused, in addition to the meteorological drought, hydrologically, the flow of river water and the produced water that seeps into the rivers; Decrease.
In the last 3 years, we have lost part of the reserves of dams and underground aquifers
He stated that in the past 3 years, due to the intensification of these reductions, we have lost part of the reserves of dams and underground aquifers, and added: This year, despite the fact that the situation was expected to be better, this did not happen, and this procedure has made the situation very complicated and difficult. is, so that not only the lack of water resources and deficits have not been compensated, but the deficits continue to intensify, so this year’s rainfall, which has decreased by 33%, has been in the direction of intensifying the lack of water resources and restrictions.
The rainfall situation in which province is favorable and which is not favorable?
The spokesperson of the country’s water industry clarified about the distribution of rainfall in the country: several provinces in the northern and northwestern belt have increased rainfall or are in normal conditions, but the central plateau, the southeast, the Zayandehroud basin, the Zahra and Jarhari catchment basins in the southwest of the country. They are not in a favorable situation and in some provinces located in this region, rainfall has decreased by 60-70%, in the provinces of Kerman, Fars, Hormozgan, South Khorasan, Bushehr and Sistan and Baluchistan, rainfall has decreased by over 50%, but in the provinces of West Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan Sharqi and Golestan have been in the more than normal range, Golestan province was one of the provinces that experienced very dry conditions in the past years, this year has a favorable situation in terms of rainfall. .
40% reduction in water to dams in the last 5 years
Stating that the continuation of dry years is currently reducing the inflow into the reservoirs of the dams, he said: “Last year at the same time, the inflow and the condition of the reservoirs of the dams were not suitable, this year the situation is worse than last year, which was a bad year, and the inflows compared to Last year, there is a 40% decrease compared to 5 years ago, and the same ratio can be imagined in the field of underground water, which means that the aquifers are facing a bigger deficit.