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3.4. Utilities 3.4.1. Energy During the past years, the government has been spent heavily in developing the country’s electricity and power networks. This has meant a variety of investments, establishment of power plants as well as development of the electricity transmission system nationwide. Because of the distribution and decentralization of cities in the northern provinces, the growth of the electricity network in the provinces has been more difficult. In Table 2 gives the facts on the condition of the power system and electricity network in the country and coastal provinces. Table1: Capacity of water reservoirs, length of network and number of water and sewage extensions in coastal provinces (1998) 3.4.2. Potable Water Water and Sewage During past 20 years, many measures have been taken throughout the country to bring the main urban and rural residential regions within the network of the drinkable water and sewage system. To this end, about 7,396,493 cubic meter of water has been saved in the country’s water reservoirs by end 1998 and about 6% of this total relates to the three Caspian coastal provinces. The length of these provinces’ drinkable water network is 6,109 km or about 9 %of the county’s network. The longest length of the network is found in Mazandaran, Gilan, Golestan respectively. The sewage system in these coastal provinces has not developed as much as the drinkable water system. Mazandaran and Golestan in particular have almost no sewage system and they are dumping sewage in wells. In Table? the situation of provision of drinkable water and development of the sewage system in the Caspian provinces is shown. 3.4.3. Irrigation 3.4.4. Water reuse and recycling 3.4.5. Management of domestic solid waste 3.4.6. Sewage and domestic wastewater 3.4.7. Industrial solid and liquid waste |
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