The first pilot project on seawater desalination in the country opens up new prospects for optimizing the use of water resources and increasing their efficiency,” said Professor Rza Mahmudov, Head of the Land and Water Resources Hydrology Department at the H. Aliyev Institute of Geography of the MSEAR, in an interview with the İki Sahil newspaper.

In the modern era, the shortage of water resources has become one of the global problems threatening the world. They even say that in the near future, water will be more expensive than oil. R. Mahmudov said that in April 2023, President Ilham Aliyev signed the Order “On measures to implement a pilot project in the field of obtaining drinking water by desalinating seawater”: “I believe that the implementation of this Order will contribute to solving the problem.”