Persian Gulf Desalination & Conveyance, line 2
Seawater RO + conveyance, 1,550 km to Kerman, South Khorasan and Khorasan Razavi in Iran.
The record
- Country
- Iran
- Location
- Bandar Abbas
- Coordinates
- —
- Technology
- Seawater RO + conveyance
- Capacity
- 1,550 km to Kerman, South Khorasan and Khorasan Razavi
- Capital cost
- IRR 470 trillion total investment (2021), about US$11.1 bn at the source's own conversion (Tehran Times, 14 March 2021), in line with the World Bank official exchange rate of IRR 42,000 per US$ (2021 average). Line 3 may be the same works as the Sirjan to Isfahan line, which the register counts inside the US$2.7 bn Persian Gulf to Isfahan scheme: both are reported at IRR 350 trillion, and no source read says whether they are one project
- Stage
- Under construction
- Owner or client
- Iran Water Resources Management
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 2025
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-10-12.
History
- 2021-03
President Rouhani launches phases 2 and 3: a 1,550 km line to Kerman, South Khorasan and Khorasan Razavi (470 trillion rials) and a 910 km line to Yazd and Isfahan (350 trillion rials), both targeted for completion in Iranian year 1404 (from March 2025)
Sources
2 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, 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.
President Rouhani ordered the beginning of the second and third phases; the second line, 1,550 km, with a total investment of 470 trillion rials (about $11.1 billion), and the third line, 910 km with 10 pumping stations, with over 350 trillion rials (about $8.3 billion) invested; both expected to be completed and put into operation by Iranian year 1404 (from March 2025). Split from the line 1 record (fact-check decision 4, October 2026), and lines 2 and 3 split into one record each with their sourced values (Ruben, "count both", 12 October 2026).