Tehran’s Looming Water Crisis: A National Emergency Decades in the Making.
Tehran, the capital of Iran, is facing one of the gravest water shortages in its modern history. With over 20 million residents, including a large floating population, the city now stands on the precipice of a full-scale water emergency. What may look like a natural consequence of reduced rainfall and climate change is, in truth, the culmination of decades of mismanagement, corruption, and misguided policies by the clerical regime—one that has turned one of the world’s most water-stressed countries into a textbook case of environmental failure.
