Final UN annex records staged reconstruction of main irrigation canals

Rough levelling of rain-fed land required over 500 cubic metres of earth moved per hectare. Irrigated land required about 1,000 in Khuzestan and 1,500–2,500 in Ilam and Bakhtaran, the annex...

About 70 scrapers worked on Khuzestan land levelling during the mission’s visit. Much earth-moving machinery had exceeded its mechanical life, with some over ten years old; resource constraints...

Bakhtaran’s earth-moving fleet fell from 53 units to twelve after borrowed equipment was recalled. Remaining levelling capacity was about 400 hectares yearly, while around 35,000 irrigated hectares...

Table E.1 listed 126 diversion works, with 27 percent completed to end-1991, 20 percent scheduled for 1992–1993 and 53 percent for 1994–1999. These reported stages distinguish completed work from...

The water-resource table listed 242 pumping stations, with 15 percent completed to end-1991, another 15 percent scheduled for 1992–1993 and 70 percent for 1994–1999. This program differs from the farm...

The water-resource program included 450 kilometres of access roads, with 50 percent completed to end-1991, 40 percent scheduled for 1992–1993 and ten percent for 1994–1999. Road progress differed from...

Table E.1 listed 185 hydrometeorological stations, with ten percent of work scheduled for 1992–1993 and 90 percent for 1994–1999. A dash appeared in the completed column; the ten-percent figure was...

Irrigated-land levelling covered 193,425 hectares in Khuzestan, 12,500 in Ilam and 45,000 in Bakhtaran. Table E.2 reported respective end-1991 completion of 50, 40 and 22 percent, showing uneven...

Table E.2 listed rough levelling of 1,700 rain-fed hectares in Khuzestan, 40,500 in Ilam and 11,500 in Bakhtaran. Reported completion was 50, 50 and 100 percent respectively; irrigated-land progress...

Modern canal networks covered 7,342 kilometres in Khuzestan, 74 in Ilam and 1,125 in Bakhtaran. Table E.3 reported completion of 50, ten and 22 percent respectively, distinguishing these...