SS: Der Iran steht aufgrund jahrzehntelanger Misswirtschaft und der schlimmsten Dürre seit 60 Jahren vor einer schweren Wasserkrise. Teheran, Heimat von 10 Millionen Menschen, hat mit der Wasserrationierung begonnen und Beamte warnen vor möglichen Evakuierungen, falls sich die Situation verschlechtern sollte. Die Stauseen sind kritisch niedrig, und in einigen Städten wie Maschhad sinkt die Staudammkapazität auf unter 3 Prozent.
https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-water-crisis-drought-tehran/33588345.html
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This is what happens when you combine corruption, incompetence, and a government more concerned with proxy conflicts than domestic policy.
The IRGC help keep the Ayatollah’s in power so their corrupt network of construction companies were allowed to build pretty much whatever they wanted, regardless of how much damage it’d cause to the long-term viability of Iran’s natural environment.
While it made strategic sense to locate the nuclear and other key industries in the centre of Iran, that’s also where there’s some of the least water, which means moving water costs a lot more than usual, and that cost is added to the water loss caused by poor infrastructure.
And Iran has fought proxy or direct wars with the world’s leaders in large scale desalinisation technology – the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Israel. And it isn’t worth it for a country like Algeria to work with Iran given the risk of sanctions, while countries like Australia and Morocco are allied to Iran’s enemies.
This was an easily avoidable problem. The post-revolution government could have fixed the problems with dams from the Shahs. Instead they made things, far, far, far worse. And now regular Iranians are left to suffer the consequences of the poor decisions of their rulers.