"The president, Masoud Pezeshkian, is disarmingly open about the scale of the crisis. There is currently a problem with water, electricity and gas. There is no water behind the dams. The wells beneath our feet are also running dry. Those who claim there is water should come and tell us where this water is For five years, Iran has been struggling with a drought that, experts agree, has been made far more severe by climate change."
"Steadily dropping levels of rainfall a sweltering Tehran had only 158mm of rainfall last year, 42% less than the long term average have combined with excessive consumption, particularly in agriculture, plus mass unauthorised extraction of groundwater and a fondness for prestigious but faulty engineering projects. The water is running frighteningly low and this summer no fewer than 19 of Iran's dams had only between 3 and 15 % of their water left."
A proposal offered Israeli water experts and advanced desalination and recycling technology to Iran contingent on a popular overthrow of the government. Iran faces multiple resource crises driven by climate change, sanctions, government neglect, and mismanagement. Chronic drought has been intensified by declining rainfall—Tehran received only 158mm last year, 42% below the long-term average. Excessive agricultural consumption, unauthorized groundwater extraction, and flawed prestige engineering projects have depleted surface and underground water. Nineteen dams held just 3–15% of capacity this summer, and Tehran's three main dams reached critical levels by September. Frequent blackouts and shortages of water, electricity, and gas compound urban hardships.
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