Friday , 29 March 2024

Environment

In Gilan, a Waterless Wetland Burns

Iranwire – This time, it was the rain that would take the most credit for extinguishing the fires consuming vast stretches of Iran’s Anzali wetland. This 20,000-hectare haven for wildlife is situated next to the Caspian Sea in the northern province of Gilan. The blaze broke out on  Monday, August 30 and raged until September 3, when it was finally …

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Lake Urmia’s Volume 40 Percent Down on Last Year

Iranwire – The water volume of Iran’s under-threat Lake Urmia has shrunk by 40 percent year on year, a senior local official told IRNA news agency. Hojat Jabbari, technical deputy director of the Department of Environment for West Azerbaijan province, told reporters that the water level across Lake Urmia had also dropped by 100 centimeters compared to this time last …

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Iran’s Dam Water Reserves Decrease by Half in a Year

Iranwire – Iran’s state-affiliated Tasnim News Agency, citing the latest statistics of Iran Water Resources Management Company, reports a massive 47 percent decrease in the country’s dam water reserves compared to last year. According to Tasnim, from the beginning of the current calendar year to August 20, 2021, the amount of water inflow to the dams’ reservoirs was 28.6 billion …

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Iran’s water crisis could be a political earthquake

thehill – The Iranians are thirsty. In the past few weeks, thousands have taken to the streets in cities and towns throughout the Islamic Republic to protest the country’s deepening hydrological crisis — and the Iranian regime’s chronic mishandling of it. Beginning in mid-July in the oil-rich province of Khuzestan, protests broke out over water shortages brought about by deepening …

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Iran’s Water Crisis: Will Isfahan be Uninhabitable in 10 Years?

Iranwire – Isfahan will become uninhabitable in less than 10 years if nothing is done about its water resources, a member of the Iranian parliament’s Committee on Agriculture, Water and Natural Resources has announced. The water shortage in Isfahan is as serious as it is in Khuzestan, Mohammad Taghi Naghd-Ali, a cleric and parliamentarian representing Khomeini Shahr in Isfahan province, told the …

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Kermanshah: Spotlight on Another Looming Water Tragedy in Iran

Iranwire – In recent weeks, protests over the water crisis in Khuzestan and the Iranian state’s bloody crackdown on dissent have dominated the news. But Khuzestan is far from the only region facing severe and potentially disastrous droughts. Kermanshah, also in western Iran, is in similarly dire straits. On Monday, July 26, a number of citizens in the provincial capital blocked streets leading to …

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One Hour of Running Water a Day for Residents of Oil-Rich Khuzestan

Iranwire – The residents of a small town in Mashahr County, Khuzestan have reported having just one hour of running water a day. Protests broke out in Khuzestan mid-July over severe water shortages across the province. In the dilapidated town of Taleghani, families told Asr-e Iran newspaper they have been under severe water stress for 15 years. The report, published on Thursday, July 29, …

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The Dark Side: How a Corrupt ‘Privatization’ Drive Led to Blackouts in Iran

Iranwire – Protests in Khuzestan over chronic water shortages began in mid-July this year. People have since taken to the streets in other Iranian cities in solidarity with their cause, chanting anti-government slogans and even tearing down banners of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Elsewhere in Iran, tensions have also flared up over the widespread power outages that have now plagued the country for months. When the …

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An overview of climate change in Iran: facts and statistics

environmentalsystemsresearch – The climate change fact is intensive among the Middle East countries and especially Iran. Among the Middle East countries, Iran will experience an increase of 2.6 °C in mean temperatures and a 35% decline in precipitation in the next decades. In vice versa, Iran by total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions nearly to 616,741 million tons of CO2 is the first …

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Water Protests Roil Mideast, Alarm Region’s Governments

VOA – When the civil war erupted in Syria a decade ago, some Middle East observers and climate scientists argued drought was one of the significant drivers of the conflict. Drought in the years preceding the war caused an agricultural collapse in parts of eastern and northern Syria, forcing rural families to migrate to cities in ever larger numbers and …

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