Financial Tribune - Rehabilitation of qanats should be put on the agenda and the issue, unlike in the past, has drawn the attention of the Energy Ministry, the agriculture minister said Tuesday.

�The government is paying special attention to watershed management and we must solve problems in the key agricultural sector,� ISNA quoted Mahmoud Hojjati as saying.

It is being reported that policy and decision makers are gradually realizing that environmental sustainability, among other things, demands revival of qanats. �This is an indication that they are finally paying attention to this issue after decades,� Hojjati added.