Zero to 100, Iran’s largest water supply project/what experts say about the Ghadir superproject

According to the economic reporter of Fars news agency, Khuzestan province has always faced the issue of drinking water during the past decades. A problem that has intensified during the last 3 years with the drought of the Karkheh catchment area as the most important source of drinking water supply for 60% of the population of Khuzestan province, concentrated in the south and southwest of this province.

The importance of drinking water supply in Khuzestan was so great that in July 1400, it created a security crisis for this region of the country and the scope of this crisis was extended to the whole country.

Based on this, in the first provincial visit of the president to Khuzestan province, the water issue was identified as one of the most important issues of the people of Khuzestan, and it was decided to prepare the ground for a sustainable solution to the problem of drinking water in Khuzestan through the construction and completion of the Ghadir water supply super project.

* The timeline of the construction of the Ghadir water supply super project

After the visit of the president, the process of designing and completing the Ghadir water supply super project was put on the agenda and within a period of 2 months, the project design was completed. Based on this, it took 36 months for the construction of the Ghadir water supply project, according to the certificate of the consulting company of this project.

With the coordination established between the government and the Ministry of Energy, as well as the mobilization of facilities and funds to complete the Ghadir water supply project as quickly as possible, the completion of the project was planned within a period of 10 months, and on August 31, 1400, less than a year after the President’s visit to Khuzestan province is witnessing the completion of the construction process and the beginning of the trial operation period.

* Components of Ghadir water supply plan

Ghadir water supply superproject is the largest water supply project in the country, which provides drinking water with a capacity of 12,000 liters per second to people’s homes. The credit allocated for the completion of the Ghadir water supply project this year from treasury documents was equivalent to 1000 billion Tomans.

Based on this, the Ghadir water supply plan includes 78 km of transmission lines, as well as the construction of 2 pumping stations, W2 and Shahid Chamran, along with increasing the capacity of the ML-Dabs pumping station. It is necessary to emphasize that all the components used in the Ghadir water supply project have come to a conclusion by relying on the ability of internal construction.

* Results of implementation of Ghadir water supply project

Exploitation of Ghadir water supply project will provide safe and sustainable drinking water for 26 cities and 1608 villages in central, southern and western Khuzestan province.

Based on this, water supply for 4.7 million people from the urban and rural population of these areas, equivalent to 52% of the population of Khuzestan province, will be provided until the horizon of 1425. In other words, with the opening of the Ghadir water supply project, the drinking water supply of the mentioned areas will be guaranteed for the next 25 years.

In addition to solving the problem of the quantity of water needed in Khuzestan, the Ghadir project also has a significant impact on the quality of water supply in these areas. Due to the fact that the source of water supply in Ghadir medium-term plan is from Dez river, the people of Khuzestan will have one of the best drinking water.

In this regard, based on the study of researchers of Amirkabir University of Technology, based on the Schuler diagram, all the investigated variables of Dez water were evaluated in a good condition, and these researchers named Dez Dam water as one of the best sources of drinking water in the world. Based on this, the water quality index (EC) as the main source of Ghadir project is equal to 550, while the mentioned index exceeded 3200 for Khuzestan in the past. It should be noted that the index (EC) of drinking water in Tehran is equal to 600.

Due to the fact that the Dez Dam lake is located in a karst structure and also has no polluting sources upstream, the people of Khuzestan will have one of the highest quality drinking water in the world after the completion of the Ghadir project.

It is necessary to emphasize, the design of the Ghadir water supply superproject, water supply from three large sources, Karun, Karkheh and Dez, is considered, which in addition to improving the reliability of water supply, will also provide the ground for the restoration of the mentioned rivers in terms of environmental indicators.

* What do experts say about Ghadir’s plan?

According to Fars report, many experts said about the benefits of the Ghadir plan. Based on this, Saeed Nikisakhen, professor of Amir Kabir University of Technology, in an interview with the economic reporter of Fars news agency, while referring to the Ghadir plan, said: “The horizon considered for the initial plan of Ghadir was 1425 “The consultants proposed a time plan for implementation, but it was not approved by the minister, and finally a 36-month schedule was proposed.”

Niki Sokhon, pointing to the full utilization of this project, said: “After the visit of the president, by increasing shift work, the implementation time will be shortened, which was finally agreed to be about 10 months, and now it has been put into operation.”

Mohammad Pourhamid, a university professor named the Ghadir project as one of the largest water supply projects in the country and said: “The completion of the Ghadir project will cause the water used by the people of Khuzestan to face significant qualitative and quantitative growth, so that this change will to feel tangible.”

Also, Saber Saadati, an expert in water resources management, while explaining the details of the Ghadir project, said: “Many of the pumping stations of the Ghadir project were built for the first time in the Middle East, and its example cannot be found anywhere else, except in a few developed countries in the United States.”

Ghadir project will be opened today with the presence of the president.

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