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Cloud Wars: Mideast Rivalries Rise Along a New Front
September 2nd, 2022
Via the New York Times, an article on how – as climate change makes the region hotter and drier – the U.A.E. is leading the effort to squeeze more rain out of the clouds, and other countries are rushing to keep up: Iranian officials have worried for years that other nations have been depriving them […]
Read more »Iran Launches Desalination Project at Bushehr Nuclear Plant
August 26th, 2022
Via Tasmin News, an article on a new desalination project in Iran: A major water desalination project was brought into operation at the Bushehr nuclear power plant in south of Iran on Friday. Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Mohammad Eslami inaugurated Iran’s first nuclear-powered desalination plant during a visit to the […]
Read more »Hundreds Protest Lack Of Water In Iran’s Drought-Hit West
August 26th, 2022
Via Terra Daily, an article on the latest water-related protests in Iran: Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets in western Iran over a lack of drinking water and the inability of officials to solve the problem, state media said Thursday. Iran, a largely arid country, has for years suffered chronic dry spells and […]
Read more »Afghan Water Reaches Iran
August 7th, 2022
Via The Frontier Post, an article on large volumes of water sent from Afghanistan to Iran: Iranian officials stated that large volumes of Helmand river water released by Afghanistan gushed through the Kamal Khan Dam, and flowed into Iran in the country’s Chah-Nimeh water wells in the Sistan region. Hassan Kazemi Qomi, the Islamic Republic […]
Read more »Iran Arrests Several After Protests At Drying Lake
July 18th, 2022
Via Terra Daily, a report on protests at Iran’s drying Lake Urmia: Iranian police have arrested several people for disturbing security after they protested the drying up of a lake once regarded as the Middle East’s largest, official media said Sunday. Lake Urmia, in the mountains of northwest Iran, began shrinking in 1995 due to […]
Read more »Iconic Iran River Threatened By Droughts, Diversions
May 25th, 2022
Via Terra Daily, an article on an iconic Iranian river under threat: The famed river bridges of the Iranian city of Isfahan are a beloved tourist draw — but much of the time their stone arches span just sand and rocks, not water. Drought and upstream water diversions have seen the Zayandeh Rood, “fertile river” […]
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