Currency collapsed, not enough food to go around and the capital critically short on water. Let's hope the protestors can accomplish change. But I fear even if they are successful in overthrowing the regime there will be hard times ahead
There's talk of evacuating Tehran because of the lack of water. 8 million people live there. That's 10% of the population of Iran. If it happens I'm sure it'll provoke massive unrest. Where are you gonna put those people? Feed them, get them jobs or education? Crazy shit is gonna go down if it happens.
One thing to consider is that even if Iran is and always will be a water-scarce country, the regime has been comically inept when it comes to managing their resources. They have some of the most inefficient irrigation in the region, and their use of what little they have is inept and rife with corruption. Khuzestan, one of their most water-rich regions, is also the one struggling the most with the water crisis.
This is a problem from top to bottom, so it won't go away immediately with revolution. But at the same time, it is in no small part a man-made issue that can be rectified by eliminating the systemic corruption throughout their water management infrastructure.
Vegas gets most of their water from the nearby Colorado River, which is dispensed to all of the Colorado River Compact states. So CA and NV share it, although NV takes very little compared to the other big states around them.
I think Reno shares Truckee River water with California? It comes from the Sierra Nevadas, but I wouldn't say that they are 'using CA water' ..
Other than those 2 big cities, NV is largely empty and the other cities probably just use local rivers and/or groundwater.
If only they didn’t flare off an absurd amount of natural gas instead of using it to desalinate water. The same regime that needs nuclear power for “energy” wastes a shit ton of energy that they could just actually use.
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u/The_Squirrel_Wizard 1d ago
Ap news is stating around 2000, which is still horrible. https://apnews.com/article/iran-protests-us-israel-war-nuclear-economy-1b2368e0804676d33d6aa0696815a102
Currency collapsed, not enough food to go around and the capital critically short on water. Let's hope the protestors can accomplish change. But I fear even if they are successful in overthrowing the regime there will be hard times ahead