structural / environmental analysis

Frames the crisis as structural and irreversible, going beyond policy failure to decades of over-extraction, excessive dam construction, and industrial water diversion: the Zayandeh-rud dam holds only 151 million cubic metres, about 11% of capacity, and ~27,000 villages with more than 10 million people face acute water shortages.

“Iran's water crisis goes far beyond policy failure; the Zayandeh-rud dam holds only 11% of capacity.”