Iran May Abandon Its Capital Tehran Due to Severe Water Shortage

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This story has been brewing for a while. It's a glacially slow news day, so I'll post it.

Tehran may be forced to evacuate due to a severe water crisis, with experts warning that all taps in the city could soon run dry.

Officials say that the Iranian capital is facing a Day Zero moment in the near future -- when all water supplies run out.

I like that, So Dramatic.

Iran has faced severe drought for six years, with Tehran's rainfall in the first two months of the current water year, which begins on 1 October, at near zero, leaving reservoir supplies at dangerously low levels.

Officials in Tehran have undertaken a number of measures, including reducing water pressure, discussing rationing and imposing cuts. They have also suggested more radical solutions, such as evacuation or moving the capital if rain does not return.

"We are talking about a few days or even weeks of water left for Tehran," Kaveh Madani, director of the UN's University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, told Canada's CBC broadcaster.

"Day Zero, as we call it in the water sector, is near. It's a day that the taps would run dry."

In early November, Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian warned: "If it doesn't rain in Tehran by late November, we'll have to ration water. And if it still doesn't rain, we'll have to evacuate Tehran."

Typically, rain should start falling in Iran in autumn, following Iran's hot summer. But the September to November period just gone is the driest the country has seen in half a century, the National Weather Forecasting Centre has reported. Rainfall has been 89 per cent below the long-term average.

God is sitting back, filing His nails.

Mr Pezeshkian described the situation as "extremely critical", citing reports that Tehran's dam reservoirs have fallen to their lowest level in 60 years, some as low as 10 per cent of capacity. Officials say that in the east of Tehran, the Latyan Dam -- one of five key reservoirs -- is only about 9 per cent full. The Karaj dam, which supplies a quarter of Tehran's drinking water, is 8 per cent full.

This is interesting -- Tehran's reservoirs are apparently administered by LA Mayor Karen Bass. Who knew.

I've heard about a lot of Impending Disasters and most of them didn't pan out. So I'm not anticipating an abandonment of the capital.

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posted by Ace at 03:53 PM

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