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Tehran Faces Water Rationing Unless Usage Drops
October 31st, 2013
Via Bloomberg, a report on Iran’s water crisis: Iran may be forced to impose water rationing in Tehran should the capital’s residents fail to cut consumption by about 20 percent, Iranian Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian said. Water rationing is under consideration in part as levels of reservoirs outside Tehran have fallen due to a sharp […]
Read more »Iran’s Water Woes More Worrying than War
August 20th, 2013
Via Green Prophet, an interesting look at Iran’s water challenges: International media is so obsessed with Iran’s forbidden access to nuclear energy and the possibility of war that a host of other issues far more worrying than war are being ignored. And it starts with water. Iran’s population of 75 million faces chronic water shortages, […]
Read more »Why An Afghan Dam May Set Back Peace
August 7th, 2013
Via the Christian Science Monitor, an article on a $200 million Afghan dam project will divert water from Iran: The water that grows western Afghanistan’s fresh produce, sprinkles its town parks with shade-giving trees, and slakes the thirst of war-weary Afghans, is becoming a point of tension with nearby Iran as a large dam under […]
Read more »What Iran And Pakistan Want From Afghans: Water
December 2nd, 2012
Courtesy of Time Magazine, a look at the bubbling water tensions in Central Asia: The Kunar River snakes around the U.S. Forward Operating Base Bostick on Sept. 1, 2011 as seen from Observation Post Mustang in Kunar Province, Afghanistan. With a vast, empty desert as a backdrop, the militants recorded the execution of Khan Wali […]
Read more »Iran’s Planned Water Transfer Project
April 24th, 2012
Via the Circle of Blue, a more detailed look at Iran’s recently announced planned water transfer project: Last week, Iran started construction on a $US 1.5 billion project that will transfer water from the Caspian Sea to the country’s arid central region. It’s not the first time — other major water transfer projects move 2,110 […]
Read more »Iran Launches $1.5 Billion Project To Bring Water From Caspian Sea To Country’s Central Desert
April 17th, 2012
Via The Washington Post, an article on a new Iranian plan to address its drinking and irrigation water shortage. As the report notes: Iran has launched a $1.5 billion project to bring water for drinking and irrigation from the Caspian Sea to its central desert. Monday’s report on state TV did not say how long […]
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