Iran Military Forum

TEHRAN-E EMROOZ in a commentary says alarm bells are ringing as drought has affected 75 percent of the country’s lands. This is compounded with the gradual drying up of Lake Urmia, complete drying up of Zayanderud River in Isfahan Province and heavy dust storms which are now hitting half the country. The writer also points to Lake Hamun, in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, that has almost dried up due to years of drought and it has caused serious problems for the locals. Bakhtegan Lake in Fars province is also drying up and the forest area in Northern provinces has decreased and the level of pollution in some parts of the Caspian Sea has reached 10 times greater than a safe level. That is why all official and unofficial state bodies should study the environmental condition in the country and even declare a state of emergency. If a solution is not found to the problem it may leave irreparable damage to the environment and the country in the future.

Pilot project of flood spreading system

Pilot area is a 6000 ha sandy expanse located on the debris cone of the Bisheh Zard river in Gareh Bygone plain . The mean annual precipitation is about 150 mm,90 percent of which occurs between October and April. The mean annual evapotranspiration is estimated to be 2860 mm. There is a hot summer and cold winter temperature.

Eight flood water spreading system, ranging from 25 to 365 ha in area with a total coverage of 1365 ha, were designed and constructed between 1983 and 1987 on the intermediate zone of debris cone (Figure 5). The procedure used are a modification of those outlined by Quilty (1972). The systems serve as sedimentation basins and infiltration ponds for the artificial recharge of groundwater; and also as experimental plots for investigation range improvement, moving sand stabilization, afforestation, etc. (Kowsar, 1992).

Transformation of a desolate, sandy expanse into a verdant horizon is the most obvious result of the flood water spreading pilot effort. The expansion of irrigated fields in what was previously a water-short area is conveniencing evidence of the effectiveness of the measure. Increasing the amount of groundwater, decreasing of its salinity, prevention the flood hazards, is the other benefits. From Jan. 1983 through Feb. 1988 there were 21 floods of varying intensity and duration. It is estimated that a total of 38 million m3   diverted by the system and 25 million m3 were directed to reaching the groundwater under unimproved conditions, less than 10 percent of precipitation finds its way into the groundwater aquifers. In pilot area, grazing capacity has became 10 times and yield of farmlands reaches to two times more than the past.

"The project has been performed by A.Kowsar and its group of cooperators. In 1996 recognized as the best watershed management project in the world by UNDP."

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