Persian Gulf to Isfahan Desalination and Conveyance
Seawater RO + conveyance, 600 million m3/year at full scheme, over 1.6 million m3/day, of which about 200 million m3/year to Isfahan in the first phase; reverse osmosis plants of 70 million m3 each over 252 ha on the Sirik coast with intake works, a thermal power station, storage tanks and a pumping station; route about 1,200 km including 500 km on the Sirjan to Isfahan line in Iran.
The record
- Country
- Iran
- Location
- Sirik
- Coordinates
- —
- Technology
- Seawater RO + conveyance
- Capacity
- 600 million m3/year at full scheme, over 1.6 million m3/day, of which about 200 million m3/year to Isfahan in the first phase; reverse osmosis plants of 70 million m3 each over 252 ha on the Sirik coast with intake works, a thermal power station, storage tanks and a pumping station; route about 1,200 km including 500 km on the Sirjan to Isfahan line
- Capital cost
- US$2.7 billion
- Stage
- Under construction
- Owner or client
- Isfahan Sofeh Water Supply Company
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- Equity from the shareholder companies, with backing from IMIDRO and the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade
- Award or start year
- 2022
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
- 2022-08
execution begins after route studies and environmental assessment (Shahrivar 1401)
- 2023-12
the 330 km Sirjan to Isfahan provincial border section reaches 75 per cent progress with 188 km of pipe laid
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.
- Donya-e Eqtesad, Persian Gulf water transfer to Isfahan is Iran's largest water transfer project, issue 5900, 16 December 2023 (Persian), reporting Tasnim citing IMIDRO. donya-e-eqtesad.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.
Gives the executing project company as the Isfahan Sofeh Water Supply Company, with Mobarakeh Steel, Esfahan Steel, the Isfahan oil refinery, the Isfahan Chamber of Commerce, the Isfahan municipality, the Isfahan municipalities' cooperation organisation and Felez Tadarok Mobarakeh Steel as shareholders; investment of US$2.7 billion; more than twenty routes assessed before an intake on the Sea of Oman coast in Hormozgan and a route through Kerman and Yazd was chosen for water quality, route and brine disposal; execution begun in Shahrivar 1401 after environmental assessment; components of sea intake, desalination and brine disposal, the conveyance system, service road and tunnel, pumping stations and intermediate reservoirs, power supply and transmission and a telemetry and control system; and the Sirjan to Isfahan provincial border section of 330 km at 75 per cent progress with 188 km of pipe laid and 4,200 people employed. The same article gives the route as close to 1,000 km in one paragraph and 1,200 km in another. It is separate from the register's existing Persian Gulf Desalination and Conveyance row, which is the first line from Bandar Abbas to Kerman and Yazd.