How Iran Got To The Point Of Water Bankruptcy

I think we will hear more and more in every geography these two words "Water" & "Bankruptcy" in pairs. 

God bless my moronic species; it's a miracle how we got here. 

During Thanksgiving week,  there was a question about what are you thankful for. I said water and people were like ...  water? 

So even after reading about the Iranian situation nothing is going to change: 

Fall marks the start of Iran’s rainy season, but large parts of the country have barely seen a drop as the nation faces one of its worst droughts in decades. Several key reservoirs are nearly dry, and Tehran, the nation’s capital, is facing an impending “Day Zero” – when the city runs out of water.

The situation is so dire, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has revived a long-debated plan to move the capital from this metro area of 15 million people.

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Iran’s escalating water and environmental problems are the predictable outcome of decades of treating the region’s finite water resources as if they were limitless.

Iran has relied heavily on water-intensive irrigation to grow food in dry landscapes and subsidized water and energy use, resulting in overpumping from aquifers and falling groundwater supplies. The concentration of economic activity and employment in major urban centers, particularly Tehran, has also catalyzed massive migration, further straining already overstretched water resources.

Those and other forces have driven Iran toward “water bankruptcy” – the point where water demand permanently exceeds the supply and nature can’t keep up.

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The country needs to start to decouple its economy from water consumption by investing in sectors that generate value and employment opportunities with minimal water use.