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Iran Forcefully Clamps Down on Protests Against Growing Water Shortages
November 27th, 2021
Courtesy of The New York Times, an article on Iran’s response to water protests in a country in which weather experts say 97 percent is dealing with water scarcity issues: For two weeks the Iranian government tolerated growing protests over scarce water supplies in the central Iranian city of Isfahan, watching them grow as restaurants […]
Read more »Thousands Protest Dried-Up River In Iran’s Isfahan
November 24th, 2021
Via Terra Daily, a report on yet another water related protest in Iran: Thousands of protesters converged on Isfahan in central Iran on Friday to voice their anger after the city’s lifeblood river dried up due to drought and diversion. The massive protest, that drew in farmers and other people from across Isfahan province, was […]
Read more »New Protests In Iran Over Water Shortages
November 24th, 2021
Via Terra Daily, a report on Iran’s drought: More than 1,000 Iranians marched Sunday towards the governor’s office in the western province of Chahar-Mahal Bakhtiari to demand a solution to water shortages, state media reported. The march came two days after thousands of protesters converged on the central city of Isfahan to vent their anger […]
Read more »Iran In ‘Post-Crisis Mode’ Over Drought
November 17th, 2021
Via The National News, an article on Iran’s drought: Iran is in “post-crisis mode” as it struggles to deal with a water scarcity problem that has already boiled over into protests, the former deputy head of the country’s environment department has warned. As world leaders gathered in Glasgow for the Cop26 conference to discuss urgent […]
Read more »Iranian Farmers Protest Drought
November 15th, 2021
Via Terra Daily, a report on recent water protests in Iran: Hundreds of farmers rallied in Iran’s central city of Isfahan to decry the drying up of its river and the impact of drought, state media reported on Friday. Images broadcast on state television showed several hundred people gathered in the dry bed of the […]
Read more »Kazakhstan Ratifies Protocol on Caspian Sea
November 1st, 2021
Via The Frontier Post, an article on the Caspian Sea: The President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev, signed a law on the ratification of the protocol on the protection of the Caspian from pollution from land sources and as a result of activities carried out on land to the Framework Convention for the Protection of the […]
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