Iran is committing suicide by dehydration
Foreign Policy | Nik Kowsar, Alireza Nader: For more than a year, since December 2017, protests and civil disobedience have been a fixture…
Tag Archives: Iran’s water crisis
Iran drought turns political as lawmakers fight over water share
Al-Monitor | Ehsan Bodaghi: Eighteen lawmakers representing constituencies from the central Iranian province of Esfahan, where water scarcity has reached an alarming…
Iran president calls for reduction of electricity, water consumption
IRNA – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday that people, in order to stop wasting water and electricity, should reduce excessive…
Iran chamber of commerce, agriculture ministry sign MoU to boost water productivity
Financial Tribune – Agriculture Minister Mahmoud Hojjati and President of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture Gholamhossein Shafei signed a…
Rouhani calls for transferring sea waters to central Iran
MNA – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that Iran enjoys considerable reserves of water in both north and south of the country…
Lake Urmia water level increases by 7cm
MNA – Lake Urmia’s water level has increased by seven centimeters compared to the same period last year, according to Farhad Sarkhosh,…
Iran may lose 70% of cultivated land if fails to take urgent action: Official
Tasnim – Iran faces losing 70 percent of its farmlands if urgent action is not taken to overcome a litany of climate…
Iran’s pistachio hub province suffers heavy loss due to water shortage
Xinhua – The pistachio farmers in Iran’s southeastern province of Kerman have suffered a loss of 227 million U.S. dollars since March…
Iranians flock to greener pastures on Caspian coast
Al-Monitor | Saeed Jalili: Iran’s Caspian Sea regions have always had abundant water resources, but they face a new threat as drought…
Drought, inefficiency lead to major power shortage in Iran
Al Monitor | Maysam Bizaer: Iran has been gripped with drought for over a decade, and the country’s precipitation has dropped to…
Major project inaugurated to end water crisis in southern Iran
IFP- A huge water transfer project named Ghadir II became operational in southern Iran on Wednesday night, ending the residents’ water problem…
Leader hails cleric’s efforts to solve water problem in S Iran
MNA – Leader of Islamic Revolution Yatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei hailed the efforts of Friday Prayers Imam of KHorramshahr, KHuzestan province, In…
Water shortage in Southern Iran turns into crisis
IFP – The poor quality of drinking water in southern Iran, particularly the south-western province of Khuzestan, has triggered protests in recent…
Netanyahu had better stop killing Palestinians instead of ‘Saving Iranians’: Spokesman
Tasnim- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi deplored Sunday comments by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who claimed he wants to save…
Iran to ban new high-water consumption industry in dry regions
Al Monitor | Maysam Bizaer: Iran has long been faced with a wide range of environmental challenges. These include everything from drought leading to soil…
Photos: Iran’s Lake Urmia water level increases
Tasnim | Mojtaba Esmaeil Zade: The level of water in Lake Urmia, northwestern Iran, has increased thanks to good precipitation in the…
Iran uses nanotechnology to manage wastewater
IFP – A group of Iranian scientists has managed to invent a new system that uses nanotechnology and renewable energies to treat…
27 provinces in Iran spending their driest year ever
IFP – A quick review of the reports on precipitation in Iran over the past month indicates that 27 provinces across the…
Energy min. in Brazil for 8th World Water Forum
MNA – Iranian Minister of Energy Reza Ardakanian will lead a delegation to the eighth edition of the World Water Forum, scheduled…
Water diplomacy, cross-border cultivation FM’s top priority
MNA – Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyed Abbas Araghchi said that diplomacy of cross-border waters is a part of…
Iran to place restrictions on farming amid water shortage
Financial Tribune- Amid low precipitation and water shortage, the government is going to place restrictions on the cultivation of crops in areas…
Denmark ready to transfer water from Gulf of Oman to central Iran
IRNA – A Danish company has expressed readiness to invest in a project for transferring water from Gulf of Oman to Iran’s…
Iran facing race against time to tackle water crisis
Press TV – Some major Iranian cities will be facing water rationing and other mandatory restrictions if the worst dry spell in more…
Soil degradation neglected crisis in Iran
Al-Monitor | Maysam Bizaer: Soil and water are natural resources pivotal to the survival of any country. They constitute the key elements of…
Water resources discovered under Earth’s hottest spot
IFP – Iranian researcher Amir Aghakouchak, a winner of American Geophysical Union’s prestigious Hydrology award, says he has discovered underground water resources…
DOE awaits effective water management
Financial Tribune- Isa Kalantari, the head of the Department of Environment, expressed strong confidence in the recently appointed Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian…
France to transfer modern water technologies to Iran
MNA – Director of Business France office in Tehran, Romain Keraval, said all French firms were pioneers in their fields of specialty…
Future wars in Mideast probably on water: Iranian diplomat
IFP – Iran’s deputy foreign minister says the water crisis in the Middle East is getting worse and more serious day by…
Man sentenced to do research for illegal use of groundwater
IFP – An Iranian man who had illegally exploited subterranean water resources has been sentenced by a court to carrying out some…
Blame game: What’s behind the water-of-discord crisis between Turkey and Iran?
Tensions are rising in bilateral relations between Turkey and Iran. The reason for this is water. Sputnik spoke to an expert in…
Iranian MPs to examine water supply problems created by neighbors
Tasnim – Iranian lawmakers plan to establish “the water security committee” to examine the issue of building dams on rivers flowing into…
Middle East “water wars”: Iran official urges pressure on Turkey over dams
Global Research – An Iranian official has urged active diplomacy with Turkey towards tackling the problem of dust storms, which chronically blight regional…
Iran diverting water from Gulf of Oman inwards
Press TV – Iran says it is implementing a landmark project to divert water from the Gulf of Oman to its central…
Iran’s pistachio growers get that sinking feeling
COSMOS|Kate Ravilious: Iran’s insatiable demand for water, which is being drawn from aquifers far faster than it can be replenished, is causing…
Stop excessive use of groundwater: Iranian Minister
IFP- “Despite all regulations against illegal consumption of well water, two-thirds of water supply is still harvested from wells,” noted Hamid Chitchian,…
Why Iran’s ‘green gold’ is set to rebound
Al Monitor| Maysam Bizaer: While Iran may be known for its massive oil and natural gas reserves to many people around the world,…
Water Hyacinth, threat to Iranian freshwater resources
IFP- According to a Farsi report by Mehr, Iranian freshwater resources, including the ones in Guilan province, northern Iran, are increasingly exposed…
Iran to divert water from plants, farms to houses
Press TV- Iran says it is considering a plan to reduce the water supplies that are consumed in farms and industrial plants…
‘Iran could face severe water crisis in 2017’
Press TV- Historically low rainfalls have raised concerns that Iran will have an arid year in 2017. Iran’s Tasnim news agency in…
Iran to use ancient remedy for its water crisis
Press TV- Iran says it is working on a project to look for water from underground resources – what could take the…