Tehran, Iran, April 13
Trend:
Iran University professor Mohammadreza Jalili Ghazizadeh said that rainfalls and filling the dams does not mean that the country's water problem has been resolved, Trend reports citing Fars News Agency.
"The recent floods saved a good amount of water, but this doesn't mean that people shouldn't take care of their water consumption," he said.
He went on to say that underground water is more important to Iran, and in Fars province the water wells are excavated at a depth of more than 300 meters.
"The levels of undeground waters are terribly low, so water needs more time to penetrate the soil," he explained. "But very little volume of flood water enters the ground and penetrates the soil.”
“The recent flood does not mean that we have entered a wet year," he said.
The unprecedented floods have devastated large parts of Iran since March 19. In 2013, the former head of Iran’s environmental protection agency reported that 85 percent of the country’s groundwater was gone, while the population had doubled in the last 40 years.
Some analysts believe that with the recent rainfall which caused a huge flood means Iran has entered the wet year after several years of dehydration.