Mashhad, home to around 4 million people and Iran’s holiest city, relies on four dams for its water supply. Esmaeilian said consumption in the city had reached about “8,000 litres per second, of which about 1,000 to 1,500 litres per second is supplied from the dams”.
Authorities in Tehran warned over the weekend of possible rolling cuts to water supplies in the capital amid what officials call the worst drought in decades. The Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has cautioned that without rainfall before winter, even Tehran could face evacuation.
In the capital, five major dams supplying drinking water are at “critical” levels, with one empty and another at less than 8% of capacity, officials say.
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Its more than just Tehran, it’s a very great many places all at once, all over the world. It’s more than just politics or policy. It’s more than just climate. The fundamental problem is growth. We outgrew our resouces, groundwater as well as surface water. It is just one facet of what’s driven us over the edge. This is our Wile E Coyote moment.
We are many things, sustainable is not one of them.
Too bad they need to buy rockets to defend themselves against Israel and the US and don’t have money because of sanctions put on them by said countries.
First Iran, soon the entire world
Too late. We have a major emergency in the American West that almost all of us are blithely unaware of. Mexico City may be the first major city to straight up run out of water. Kabul looks to be next.
And this isn’t all down to global warming. We’re draining monstrous aquifers that took thousands of years to fill.
Here in NW Florida people were commenting on how unusually rainy it was last spring. Yeah, that was normal 10-20 years ago, rain nearly every afternoon. Had a solid rain last week. Before that? Over a month dry.
Let’s close a couple of those “AI” factories and send them some of that “AI” water.
Should have focused on hydrology and sustainable practices instead of nuclear arms.
