Persian Gulf Desalination & Conveyance (Kerman and Yazd)
Seawater RO + conveyance in Iran.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Iran
- Location
- Bandar Abbas
- Coordinates
- 27.180, 56.280
- Technology
- Seawater RO + conveyance
- Capacity
- —
- Capital cost
- US$3,880 m: line 1 cost IRR 163 trillion (2020) at the source's own conversion (Tehran Times, 14 March 2021), which matches the World Bank official rate for 2020 of IRR 42,000 per US$
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Iran Water Resources Management
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- Private industrial investors: Golgohar Company, National Iranian Copper Industries Company and Chadormalu Industries (phase 1)
- Award or start year
- 2020
- Commissioned
- 2020-11 (phase 1)
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
- 2020-11
Phase 1 inaugurated by President Rouhani: desalination at Bandar Abbas, 305 km of pipeline, seven pumping stations and 150 km of power lines supplying Kerman province, investment 163 trillion rials (about US$3.88 billion)
Sources
3 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Tehran Times, Persian Gulf water transfer project inaugurated, 7 November 2020. tehrantimes.com.
- Tehran Times, Rouhani inaugurates 2nd, 3rd phases of Persian Gulf water transfer project, 14 March 2021. tehrantimes.com.
- MENA Water Review major projects register and PPP pipeline — compiled from procurer publications, development-bank project pages and trade reporting; each record names its source.
Named here with its destination because the register also holds the Persian Gulf to Isfahan scheme, which takes water at Sirik under a different owner and is not a phase of this line. Lines 2 and 3, launched in March 2021, are a separate record.