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Saeed Zarandi, on the sidelines of the seawater transfer project inauguration ceremony, in response to a question from the Madan Nameh reporter about the costs of transferring each cubic meter of this water to the Mobarakeh complex, said: The total cost of desalination and water transfer in the seawater transfer project to the Mobarakeh production line is about 3 dollars per cubic meter. Six-tenths of a cent of this amount is related to desalination and the rest is the transfer cost.
Regarding the economic justification of this project, he stated: Our decision to transfer water was a choice between shutdown and maintaining production, and in fact, we were forced to implement this plan. Isfahan province no longer has the capacity to supply new water for the industry. Solving the water problem of Mobarakeh Steel was an issue I had promised on the very first day of being appointed as CEO of Mobarakeh Steel and it was considered one of our priorities.
Zarandi referring to water issues in the steel industry said: This year, for the first time, we experienced three days of water outage in June and the water reservoir storage reached zero, and as a result, the reduction unit process was interrupted. Therefore, securing stable water supply was essential for us.
The CEO of Mobarakeh Steel continued: The seawater transfer project to Mobarakeh was a large-scale project with 800 kilometers of pipeline installation. Mobarakeh has invested 20 trillion Iranian rials in these pipelines through interest-free letters of credit and about 9 trillion rials directly as capital in the project itself.
Zarandi regarding the volume of water transferred in this project said: Currently, a capacity of 70 million cubic meters for water transfer has been established, and at present, 40 million cubic meters are flowing in the pipes. Of course, the total need of Mobarakeh Steel is about 30 million cubic meters, nearly 9 million cubic meters of which is supplied through the treatment of sewage from nine cities of Isfahan province, and the rest was extracted from the river, which will now reach zero after this withdrawal by Mobarakeh Steel.