Tehran’s major reservoir has only two weeks of water left: Official

Tehran – (Special Correspondent / WEb Desk) – Tehran’s major source of drinking water is expected to run dry within two weeks due to a historic drought, official television said on Sunday.
The Amir Kabir dam, one of five that provide drinking water to the capital, “holds just 14 million cubic metres of water, which is 8% of its capacity,” the director of the capital’s water company, Behzad Parsa, told the IRNA news agency.
It can only supply Tehran with water “for two weeks” at that level, he claimed.
The megacity of almost 10 million inhabitants is situated against the southern slopes of the often snow-capped Alborz Mountains, which rise to 5,600 meters and feed many reservoirs.

But the country is in the midst of its worst drought in decades. The level of rainfall in Tehran province was “nearly without precedent for a century,” a local official declared last month.

A year ago, the Amir Kabir dam held back 86 million cubic metres of water, Parsa said, but there had been a “100pc drop in precipitation” in the Tehran region.

Parsa did not provide details on the status of the other reservoirs in the system. According to Iranian media, the population of Tehran consumes around three million cubic metres of water each day.

onus is on Kabul to act against terrorists who use Afghan land to target Pakistan.

As a water-saving measure, supplies have reportedly been cut off to several neighbourhoods in recent days, while outages were frequent this summer. In July and August, two public holidays were declared to save water and energy, with power cuts an almost daily occurrence amid a heatwave.

“The water crisis is more serious than what is being discussed today,” Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned at the time.