TEHRAN –Some 18.57 billion cubic meters of water is stored behind the dams across Iran since the beginning of the current water year (September 23), indicating no change compared to the previous year, a report by Iran Water Resources Management Company (IWRM) said.

Based on IWRM data, currently, the total capacity of the country’s dam reservoirs stands at 50.5 billion cubic meters.

As reported, since the beginning of the current water year up to October 8, the total volume of water inflow to the reservoirs of the country's dams stood at 370 million cubic meters

According to Firouz Ghasemzadeh, the director-general of the Energy Ministry's water information and data office, compared to the figures for the previous water year, the inflow to the country's dams has decreased by 27 percent.

Ghasemzadeh called on people and industries to manage their water consumption.

A report by Nature Scientific Journal on Iran’s water crisis indicates that from 2002 to 2015, over 74 billion cubic meters have been extracted from aquifers, which is unprecedented and its revival takes thousands of years along with urgent action.

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