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Tag: water crisis
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Isfahan in Crisis: When the Heart of Iran Runs Dry
Isfahan faces converging crises (vanishing water, land subsidence, air pollution, and a dying wetland), showing how unbalanced industrial growth can push Iran’s historic cities…
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Lake Urmia’s Death: The Fall of Iran’s Azure Jewel
Once the azure jewel of Iran, Lake Urmia has officially collapsed into a salt desert. Decades of mismanagement, damming, and climate change have turned…
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Water for Towers or for People? How Politics Fuels Tehran’s Water Crisis
Behind Tehran’s official denial of water shortages lies a stark inequality: construction continues, benefiting luxury developments while poorer neighborhoods are left with dry taps…
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Cartoon of the Week: Zahedan is Thirsty
Summer in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan is not only subject to unbearable heat, but also a never ending quest for water. Due to major…
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Cartoon of the Week: The Last Drop
One out of four people live in countries that have water stress. This week’s selected cartoon is the work of Halit Kurtulmus Aytoslu, a…
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Isfahan Fatal Crackdown: Water Protests and the Iranian Regime’s new Dilemma
After a violent crackdown of Isfahan farmers’ peaceful gathering to protest water shortage, the farmers wanted to convene for the Friday Prayer when the…
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Illegal water extraction at root of nationwide crisis
Reports indicate that the extreme exploitation of agricultural wells persists in various regions of Iran and an annual level of 11 billion cubic metres…
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Kerman governor says millions endangered by vanishing wetlands
The Kerman governor says the drying out of the Jazmurian Wetlands is posing serious danger to millions of lives. The Mehr News Agency reported…
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Illegal wells threaten to eventually dry out region
Mojtaba Nouri, the head of research at the Provincial Water Resources Office of Alborz Province, says there has been a significant rise in the…
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Probe uncovers many thousands of illegal wells
The director of conservation and utilization of water resources reported on Wednesday January 6 that 300,000 illegal wells have so far been identified across…
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Long-term plan suggested as solution to Iran’s water crisis
The head of Iran’s House of Agriculture says the country needs a 20-year plan to bring itself out of its current water crisis. Issa…
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Water diversion for Tehran sparks concern for river
A tunnel to divert water from the Karaj River to Tehran is raising environmental concerns over the threat to Karaj’s underground water system. The…