TEHRAN: Water supply to villages in southern Iran have been restored after US strikes hit reservoirs, state television reported on Thursday, in what Iranian officials described as a “war crime.”
Water and desalination facilities, particularly in southern Iran and across its Gulf neighbors, have been among the most critical and vulnerable infrastructure targets since the outbreak of the war between Iran, Israel and the United States on February 28.
An exchange of fire that took place overnight into Wednesday morning — despite a ceasefire that went into effect on April 8 — saw US strikes hit two water reservoirs in the town of Sirik, cutting off nearly 20,000 people from access to drinking water.
“The water distribution network of the affected areas has been restored,” said Abdolhamid Hamzehpour, general manager of the Hormozgan Water and Wastewater Company, according to state television on Thursday.
He said the repair process took “less than 12 hours” and “the intermittent supply problems for subscribers in the city of Kouhestak and the villages of the Bemani district were fully resolved.”
