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Iran's Water Crisis the Product of Decades of Bad Planning
(Washington Post) Jason Rezaian - Iran is headed for a water shortage of epic proportions. "Our water usage is twice the world standard," said Massoumeh Ebtekar, the head of Iran's Department of Environment. With Iran's annual precipitation only a third of the global average, heavy overconsumption has ravaged the country's available water resources. "In less than 50 years, we've used all but 30% of our groundwater supply, which took a million years to gather, and it's getting worse and worse due to unsustainable development," said Nasser Karami, an Iranian physical climatologist.