People of Abadan will have healthy water from next year!!!!!!!!!

Translation by Reza Vashahi

Analyse and back ground by Reza Vashahi

Source: Fars News agency

05/01/2007


Minister of energy in press conference in Abadan city said to people that from next year they will have healthy water.

Parviz Fatah in interview with Fars News agency said that progress of water refinery 34 percent has progress till now.

He said also they do not have problem with founding for this project.



Analyse and back ground

In 5 July 2000, people of Abadan came out in peace full demonstration because the water was so salty that no one can eat it.

Abadan which was the biggest oil refinery in the world now does not have even health water. When energy minister saying from next year people will have healthy water, question came to mind that what they been drinking till now then?

I myself tested salty water of Abadan and it was unacceptable, this is crime toward the people in Ahwaz, one of the basic rights of human is healthy water. Abadan with having huge river passing by, this is unacceptable that people do not have healthy water.

Ahwaz contain %33 of Iran’s water.

Water became salty because of the land took away from Arab farmers and turned it into sugar farms and in process of refining the salt of land all the salt came to the river which it was above the Abadan city. Sugar farm owner reported to be property of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former Iranian president.

After decade still this problem going on. We call on international community to see the effect of this salty year for people of this area.