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In Drought-Stricken Iran, Nature Is Doing What Sanctions And Airstrikes Could Not
November 17th, 2025
Via Forbes, commentary on Iran’s drought: “May God protect this country from the enemy, from drought, from lies.” The ancient prayer of the Persian King Darius the Great, carved into stone more than two thousand years ago, captures three existential threats that have forever concerned Iranians: foreign aggression, water scarcity, and the erosion of truth. […]
Read more »Tehran’s Residents Are Panicking as Taps Run Dry
November 13th, 2025
Via Foreign Policy, a report on how years of drought and neglect have left Tehran nearly unsustainable: In recent days, prolonged water cuts across Tehran have created widespread panic among the Iranian capital’s 10 million residents. Last week, after years of drought and reduced rainfall and snowfall, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned that Tehran’s residents would have […]
Read more »Texas’s Water Wars
November 13th, 2025
Via the New Yorker, a look at how – as industrial operations move to the state – residents find that their drinking water has been promised to companies: In 2019, Corpus Christi, Texas’s eighth-largest city, moved forward with plans to build a desalination plant. The facility, which was expected to be completed by 2023, at […]
Read more »Iran’s Central Plateau Could Be Depopulated Over Water Crisis
November 12th, 2025
Via Iran International, a report on how Iran’s central plateau could be depopulated over the nation’s deepening water crisis: A senior Iranian water expert warned on Sunday that the country’s central plateau could be emptied of inhabitants if authorities fail to address the worsening water crisis, as officials in Tehran admit that rationing in the […]
Read more »Iran’s Rain Clouds Aren’t Being Stolen: But Its Drought Is Worsening
November 9th, 2025
Via Forbes, a report on Iran’s drought: Rivers are drying up across Iran, snow has vanished from mountaintops, and rainfall has hit record lows. The reservoirs supplying Tehran are now at less than 5% capacity, with officials warning the capital could run out of water in less than two weeks. As the country of more than 80 million […]
Read more »Liquid Front Lines: South Asia’s Water Wars
November 8th, 2025
Via The Economist, a look at how climate change and rising energy demand could worsen conflict over rivers: RARELY CALM, the cross-border politics of South Asia’s great rivers have been roiling of late. In late October Afghanistan revealed plans to build dams on the Kabul river, rankling Pakistan, with which it had skirmished on the […]
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