According to the forecasts, El NinoSouthern Oscillation (ENSO) can lead to more rain in Iran in the second half of winter and early spring. The ENSO cycle has three phases called the neutral phase, El Nio and La Nia. It is a scientific term that describes the fluctuations in temperature between the ocean and atmosphere in the east-central Equatorial ...

Tehran Times Over 85 percent of the countrys total population is affected by prolonged drought over the past decade, Sadeq Ziaeian, director of the national center for drought and crisis management affiliated to the Meteorological Organization, told ISNA on Friday. According to the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI), 11 ...

Tehran Times The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) will launch a campaign for the second time to solicit public donations to ease water stress in four provinces of the country. Called Nazr-e Ab (literally meaning water donation), the campaign will start on August 1 and will run until September 11 in four provinces of Sistan-Baluchestan, South ...

IRNA President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that one of the enemies plots, especially the Zionist regime and the US, is to pretend prevalence of drought in Iran and impossibility of life in many parts of it. Addressing a meeting of Khuzestan provinces crisis management, he said it is for years that the enemies take advantage of the issue of ...

Tehran Times - Water transfer schemes looking attractive to many of those residing in drought-stricken central Iran worried about drought, not only does not eliminate water scarcity, but inevitably involves polluting the environment along with damaging agriculture, peoples fragile source of income. Two water transfer projects have been proposed ...

MNA | Maryam Qarehgozlou: Since the beginning of autumn Iran has seen a great increase in precipitation amounts but endless speculations are running rampant as to whether the dry spell is over in the country or not. The data released on Monday by the National Drought Warning and Monitoring Center stated that the whole country received 120.2 millimeters ...

Al-Monitor | Ehsan Bodaghi: Eighteen lawmakers representing constituencies from the central Iranian province of Esfahan, where water scarcity has reached an alarming state, have resigned collectively in a symbolic move against what they believe is an unfair distribution of water resources. In response, their counterparts from three other provinces,...

MNA Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli called for officials to follow the issue of water transfer from Sea of Oman, Southern Iran. He made the remarks in a Monday meeting organized to discuss the latest status of drought in the country. The issue of drinking water should be among the countrys main priorities in next [Iranian calendar] ...

Al Monitor | Maysam Bizaer: Iran has been gripped with drought for over a decade, and the countrys precipitation has dropped to its lowest level in the past half-century. According to the latest recorded figures by Irans Ministry of Energy, there havebeen166 millimeters(6.5 inches) of rainfall across Iran in the current water year (from the beginning ...

Al-Monitor | Saeid Jafari: The air in Irans southwesternprovince of Khuzestanis no longer safe to breathe. Although the region has been dealing with dust and sandstorms for over a decade, it seems that the situation has only become a crisis in recent years. Irans petroleum hub ofKhuzestan borders Iraq. The province was a front line during the 1980-...

Financial Tribune- Over a dozen islands have recently appeared in the middle of Karoun River in the southeastern Khuzestan Province, presaging an actual drought. Although the appearance of the islands is not entirely unusual or unexpected because of water scarcity afflicting the whole country, it shows the drastic drop in the amount of water entering ...