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Iranian Drought Begets Farmer Protests, Power Outages, and Widespread Water Rationing
June 22nd, 2021
Via Circle of Blue, a report on Iran’s drought: Lack of water is one of Iran’s biggest environmental and social risks. On the outskirts of Tehran, and in the country’s rural expanses, the signs of such stress are abundantly visible: brittle plains, cracked ground, sinkholes, sandy plateaus. A decades-long drought in one of the warming […]
Read more »Iran: Facing Water ‘Bankruptcy’
June 16th, 2021
Via Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, a report on Iran’s depleted aquifers: Iran is facing a state of water bankruptcy that threatens its socioeconomic development and natural environments. Using an exceptionally rich measured groundwater dataset, we illustrate the extent and severity of Iran’s groundwater depletion and salinization problems during the 2002 to 2015 period, […]
Read more »Iran’s Biggest Problem Is Water
June 2nd, 2021
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, an article on how, with supplies running out, water security could be the issue that finally makes the region’s countries work together: Iran is parched. Indeed, this year is expected to be among the driest in the last 50 years. Of the country’s 85 million people, some 28 million people live in water-stressed areas, mostly […]
Read more »Afghan Leader Demands Iranian Oil in Exchange for River Water
March 29th, 2021
Via VOA News, a report on Afghan – Iranian water tensions: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said Wednesday that his country is committed to give Iran its due share of water under a decades-long bilateral treaty but he stressed that Tehran will have to pay for any additional requirements. “We will honor our commitments. However, […]
Read more »Iran Launches Major Water Transfer Projects
March 14th, 2021
Via Tanim News, an article on Iran’s effort to launch several new major water transfer projects: The Iranian president on Sunday inaugurated five projects to transfer desalinated water from the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman to inland arid provinces. President Hassan Rouhani opened the five water transfer projects via videoconference on Sunday. New pipelines […]
Read more »Iraq: Kurdish Dam Building Spree Threatens Fragile Water Supplies
October 14th, 2020
Via Future Directions International, a report on how planned Kurdish dams may impact Iraq’s fragile water supply: A proposal to build several dams in Iraqi Kurdistan has sparked concerns that new dams in the region could lead to further water shortages in the rest of Iraq, as well as concerns that the proposed dams could cause significant damage […]
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