Satellite pictures show scale of Iran’s water “disaster”

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  1. By Amir Daftari — News Reporter |

    Northern Iran’s wetlands are collapsing, leaving once-thriving bird habitats eerily silent.

    In Golestan province, hundreds of thousands of migratory birds failed to arrive this autumn, with drought and upstream dams pushing the region toward ecological collapse. “This year the sky over Golestan is empty,” Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported on Monday.

    The decline in northern wetlands reflects a broader water crisis across Iran. Rivers and lakes are shrinking, groundwater is rapidly depleting, and prolonged drought is straining both agriculture and urban areas. The president has proposed relocating the nation’s capital, citing Tehran’s vulnerability, though many officials warn that systemic water mismanagement remains the root problem.

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  4. Maybe stop wasting money on nuclear development or exporting terror and make peace with a country in the region that is advanced in water desalination and reclamation for the good of their people.

  5. Sadly this drought likely is a cycle that repeats every few centuries. You can tell based on mass migrations/invasions into India every few centuries by Iranian people throughout history. These were just stories once, now we get to live them.

  6. Climate change is a part of this, but according to a couple of YouTube videos I watched, the mismanagement of water and the country’s water system is the biggest contributor to the problem (lots of dam building projects, encouraging farmers to grow crops that required lots of water – those kind of things)

  7. Why the quote? (In the article, too) Looks like a water disaster to me. Not a water “disaster”.

  8. Kevin Costner sequel coming up ‘No Waterworld’

    Will make the dystopian civilisation of the original look like Disney Land

  9. Not related, but holy shit, news sites are cancer. 37 things to close before you can read a word of the article. Why bother at this point

  12. The mullahs are literally destroying the country 😭

  14. This is why America and Europe have immigration problems.

  15. I *despise* the frequently-used Olympic swimming pool unit of measurement for volume. It ranks right up there with using African elephants as a unit of measurement for weight. (It’s never an Asian elephant; only African). Might as well use mastodons.

    The only truly acceptable comparable unit of measurement is, naturally, the banana. And not just any banana…the Cavendish. God’s chosen banana.

  16. If only there were a neighboring country that’s turned a similar water shortage into a surplus using breakthrough technologies…

  17. But have they thought about praying harder ? Surely someone above will listen.

  19. Its only a matter of when wars will start because of water, India/china/pakistan already tense because of water “rights” issues cropping up from time to time. With the forecast in the next 10 years of india water supply its not looking good.

  20. But Trump said climate change was a hoax? Are transgender people or drag queens to blame for all this? Can we not talk about the Epstein files and focus on this?

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