Half of Iranian population deprived of sewer network

Ministry of Energy in Mullah Rouhani’s government has said that about 55 percent of Iran’s population are deprived of a sewerage network.

State-run Mehr news agency in Iran has quoted Behnam Vakili, the director of the regime’s Ministry of Power’s The Department of Monitoring the Operation of Wastewater Projects, on Wednesday October 12 as saying: “on average, about 44.5 percent of Iran’s urban population are covered by sewer network while less than one percent of rural population in the country, namely around 70,000 people, have access to such network and about 48,000 people have been provided with wastewater treatment.”

These statements come at a time when the Iranian regime’s head of the Department of Environment had announced in 2015 that there were six modern, operating wastewater treatment units in Tehran alone which would suffice 550,000 people.

According to the current statistics, parts of urban areas in only 18 percent of Iran’s cities are covered by a sewer network. In other cases, household wastewaters, including blackwater and greywater, are collected using absorbing wells while in many cases they are poured into the rivers, conduits, lakes and seas. The regime’s official said that a lack of financial resources has been the most important factor to delay constructing wastewater treatment plants.

The regime’s officials at all levels are engaged in plundering billions of the country’s wealth and resources whereas every once in a while in clashes between rival factions, a number of billion-dollar embezzlements are revealed. /NCRI