Research Activity

Date: July 2005- February 2006

Objectives/Outcomes:

This demonstration project, supported by RCUWM-Tehran and partly funded by ESCAP, is part of the process to establish a range of in-house water savings measures which could be form the basis for a city-wide water efficiency plan for Tehran. It is noted that there are a range of other measures, such as financial incentives and legal/regulatory measures, but due to the limited time frame available, focus under this project is on technical and public awareness measures.

The overall objective was to achieve measurable progress in improving the utilization efficiency of water resources by replicating best practices in water-use […]

Date: January – December 2004

Objectives/Outcomes:

1. Analysing existing water resources conditions of Kabul basin;
2. Water resources and demand assessment
3. Analysing the options and selecting the best feasible projects for fulfilment of water demands with taking the environmental requirement into consideration
4. Preparing the following plans with taking the natural, technical, socio- economical and financial constraints into account:

• Developing agricultural and irrigation plans and water resources development projects;
• Urban and industrial water supply plans;
• Water quality management plans;
• Demand management plans;
• Basic data and information acquisition plans.

Date: March 2003- November 2004

Objectives/Outcomes:

In this report the demographic, economic and urbanization challenges of the region, as well as methodology and some preliminary results were presented.

Based on the analysis of these conducted studies, the following interventions should be addressed:

• Develop water demand management strategy and campaign;
• Improve wastewater collection and treatment systems;
• Encourage reuse and recycling of treated wastewater;
• Renovate or replace aging infrastructure by adapted systems;
• Install leakage detection systems in water supply networks and reduce UFW;
• Promote water conservation (e.g. reduce subsidies, promote block tariffs, install meters, public awareness);
• Improve solid waste management and encourage recycling;
• Create enabling institutional […]