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Iran was laying plans connected Saturday (November 8, 2025) to chopped disconnected h2o supplies periodically to Tehran's 10-million-strong colonisation arsenic it battles its worst drought successful galore decades.
Rainfall successful the superior has this twelvemonth been astatine its lowest level successful a century, section officials say, and fractional of Iran's provinces person not seen a driblet autumn successful months.
Now, to prevention water, the authorities is readying h2o cuts successful Tehran — and respective section quality outlets person already reported pipes moving adust overnight successful immoderate areas.
"This volition assistance debar discarded adjacent though it whitethorn origin inconvenience," Iran's Energy Minister Abbas Ali Abadi said connected authorities television.
In a code broadcast connected Friday (November 7, 2025), Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian had warned that Tehran mightiness person to beryllium evacuated if nary rainfall falls earlier the extremity of the year.
But helium gave nary details astir however specified a immense cognition would beryllium conducted.
Tehran nestles connected the confederate slopes of the Alborz mountains and has blistery adust summers usually relieved by autumn rains and wintertime snowfall.
Reservoirs tally dry
Tehran is by acold the country's biggest metropolis and its inhabitants usage 3 cardinal cubic metres of h2o per day, according to section media.
The main Amir Kabir dam connected the Karaj river, 1 of 5 reservoirs serving the capital, is moving adust and holds lone 14 cardinal cubic litres, according to Behzad Parsa, manager wide of the Tehran h2o company, cited by the authoritative quality bureau IRNA.
During the aforesaid play past year, the reservoir held 86 cardinal cubic metres, helium added, but present it lone has capable to support supplies to the Tehran portion for little than 2 weeks.
On Saturday (November 8, 2025), authorities tv broadcast images of respective dams, serving the cardinal metropolis of Isfahan and Tabriz successful the northwest, showing importantly little h2o levels compared to erstwhile years.
Hassan Hosseini, the lawman of Iran's second-largest metropolis Mashhad, told IRNA bureau connected Thursday (November 6, 2025) that night-time h2o cuts were being considered to code the h2o shortage.
And implicit the summertime connected July and August, 2 nationalist holidays were declared successful Tehran to prevention h2o and energy, astatine a clip erstwhile powerfulness outages were astir regular during the aggravated heatwave.
