Posted on 11/19/2025 6:23:03 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
A drastic new message adorns the walls of the Iranian capital, usually reserved for war heroes and weapons.
“There is a water shortage!” reads the government poster's slogan, inside a water container that is nearly empty. “It’s fall and there is still no rain.”
That’s not news to Erfan Ensani, 39, who returned home from a long day working in the textile section of the city’s central bazaar last week to find his taps running dry.
Iran is facing its worst water crisis in decades. With no end in sight and authorities warning they may even have to evacuate the capital of 10 million people, residents like Ensani are scrambling to respond.
“We didn’t have water for three days. The pressure was so low that nothing came out,” Ensani, who, like many residents, works two jobs to make ends meet, told NBC News in a recent interview in Tehran.
“The water company says we should buy pumps to solve the problem and also get a storage tank to keep some water. But that’s expensive, especially now when the economy is bad,” Ensani said.
Everyone in his building is fed up, Ensani said, with some neighbors even traveling across the city to their relatives’ houses just to take a shower. Families with kids have an even more difficult time. “These are extra costs that people just can’t handle right now,” Ensani said.
President Masoud Pezeshkian said two weeks ago that extreme measures may need to be taken if there is no rain by late November.
“Even if we ration, if it doesn’t rain again, then we won’t have water at all,” he said, according to a video posted on the website of the semiofficial Tabnak news agency.
“They’ll have to evacuate Tehran.”
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Bkmk
Just one of those things I guess.
Inshallah!
It’s Tehran Jake
This is the time to riot and take over the government!
True.
Iran has 523 large dams in operation, with the total number of large and small dams exceeding 600. While official figures cite 523 large dams, one source indicates Iran has built over 600 dams in the past three decades.
Okay, thanks for telling me. I will have water to drink, and water to wash with, because I always prepare for things like this.
And I don't live in Tehran.
Maybe try praying to the real God instead of your fake one?
Would I care if Iran dehydrated?
Where is their pedophile false prophet now?
If they spent their money on desalination plants instead of a nuke program and deep tunnels. they might have extensive fresh water supplies like the Saudis and Israelis do.
“Maybe try praying to the real God instead of your fake one?”
Maybe the real God decided to shut off the Mullah’s water.
Get ready Europe, you’re about to be taken over, again.
“They’ll have to evacuate Tehran.”
Teran has 8.7 million people. Where would you take them to? Will there be shelter, food, and water for 8+ million people?
Much easier to bring water to them, however difficult and exspensive that would be.
The option to evacuate the population is impossible.
I like to keep a ready supply of dehydrated water on hand for emergencies.
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