Tehran is in water crisis--where is mainstream media? [View all]

While Mary Geddry's substack has a lot more news worthy of following, I am highlighting this part of this particular substack because, I feel, it should be world wide headlines.

Then there is Iran, where the climate crisis is no longer an abstraction but a civic unraveling. Tehran has recorded one millimeter of rain this year. More than thirty dams are at less than 5 percent capacity. The snowpack has collapsed by almost 99 percent nationwide. The country, already battered by political upheaval and violence, is now staring down the possibility that its capital city of fourteen million people could become uninhabitable. Mosques are full of rain prayers. Meteorologists are begging the sky to cooperate. The government is launching cloud-seeding flights like they’re trying to reboot the atmosphere. Some clerics blame drought on women showing too much hair. Others attribute it to “sin.” Environmental scientists, many of whom have been harassed, arrested, or exiled, are saying what they’ve said for years: this is climate breakdown plus decades of water mismanagement, and the window for avoiding catastrophe is closing.<

President Pezeshkian warned that Tehran might have to be partially evacuated by mid-December if the rains do not come. Officials tried to walk it back as “infeasible,” but water experts quietly admit he may be right. There is no infrastructure in Iran capable of receiving 14 million climate refugees. There isn’t even enough bottled water on store shelves. This is what denial buys: collapse on a timetable.


https://open.substack.com/pub/marygeddry/p/water-warplanes-and-whatever-trump