High water consumption in Iran: daily household drinking water consumption is 197 liters
The Office of Information and Cybersecurity of the Ministry of Energy claimed a daily per capita consumption of 197 liters of household drinking water
This report further announced the price of each cubic meter of household drinking water as 790 tomans
Officials and institutions of the fourteenth government have recently highlighted the low cost of fuel carriers, bread, water, and some other essential items and have called for an increase in their prices
The claim by the Ministry of Energy about the daily consumption of 197 liters of water by each Iranian citizen comes while previous statistics from the Ministry of Energy reported more than 31 percent losses in drinking water in the country, attributing half of this figure to the aging water transmission and distribution network
Mohsen Ardakani, the CEO of the Tehran Province Water and Wastewater Company, had announced this June that water loss in Tehran was 22 percent