Iran’s reservoirs are at record lows and years of drought and poor resource management will soon threaten nationwide rations, local media and officials say.
The Horror Sun daily says The 10 important dams have reduced storage capacity by 25-75% compared to previous years.
Now, 70 days after the beginning of autumn, statistics show very little rainfall in various provinces of Iran.
Amid public protests and hype over the World Cup, social media reports have gone dead in the past few days: ‘Tehran’s dams have water for only a few days’.
Mohammad Bakerzadeh Etemad Daily reports 1 December said water rationing will be implemented in some cities if the situation does not improve dramatically.
He said water levels at five major dams around Tehran have dropped by almost 50% and about half the people in the capital are now turning to groundwater extraction.
Firouz Qasemzadeh, spokesperson for the Iranian fisheries industry, said rainfall across Iran has fallen by 16% compared to the long-term average of the past 50 years.
Inefficient agricultural sectors, overgrazing of rangelands and forests, aggressive overexploitation of groundwater resources and, most importantly, regime mismanagement are among the main causes. Iran water bankruptcy.
