Water may have to be rationed in Tehran: energy minister

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 Water may have to be rationed in Tehran: energy minister

Iranian Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian has asked Tehran citizens to reduce their water consumption by about 20 percent, saying if they do not do so, the Energy Ministry will be forced to introduce water rationing in the capital.

"If this trend [the high rate of consumption] continues, we will be forced to ration it," Chitchian told reporters after a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.

Due to a sharp decline in rainfall in the autumn, the water reservoirs of dams near Tehran have been reduced greatly, the stated.

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