TEHRAN - The total volume of water in Iran’s dam reservoirs has reached 24.45 billion cubic meters in the previous water year (ended on September 22), showing a 13 percent increase compared to a year earlier.

According to Firouz Ghasemzadeh, the spokesman of the Energy Ministry’s water industry, water inflow into the country's dams since the beginning of the current water year (started on September 23) is reported to be 0.2 billion cubic meters, which shows a 21 percent increase compared to the same period last year.

Ghasemzadeh said currently, 47 percent of the total capacity of the country’s dams is full. Iran’s total dam reservoirs stand at 50.5 billion cubic meters.

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