Iran wasting valuable water

A report from Teheran says Iran wastes the equivalent of three times as much water a year as it earns from oil revenues.

The state-run media quoted agriculture officials as saying that total wastage each year cost the country an estimated sixty-three-billion dollars.

Unnamed experts said most of the wastage was caused by inefficient irrigation systems.

The reports came as Iran emerges from two years of successive drought which resulted in the loss of more than eight-hundred-thousand head of livestock and damage estimated at three-and-a-half-billion dollars.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service