10 million people.. The Iranian capital faces the risk of running out of drinking water
However, this year Iran is facing the worst drought in decades. In Tehran, rainfall fell to an almost unprecedented rate in a century, according to a local official in October. The agency quoted "Erna" On Sunday, the Director General of the Capital Water Company, Behzad Parsa, said that the Amirkabir Dam, one of the five dams that supply Tehran with drinking water, "It contains only 14 million cubic meters of water, or 8 percent of its capacity" He pointed out that this quantity allows supplying Tehran with drinking water "For less than two weeks only" Parsa explained that in the same period last year, this dam contained about 86 million cubic meters of water, attributing this significant decline to "Rainfall reduced by one hundred percent" In Tehran and its suburbs. Parsa did not specify the status of other dams in Tehran, and the residents of the Iranian capital consume about three million cubic meters of water per day, according to local media. Water has been cut off in recent days from many neighborhoods of the city, with the aim of saving consumption, according to the media, and water has also been cut off regularly this summer.
Facing within two weeks due to Running out of water in Tehran Water Crisis in Iran
