After Ruining a Treasured Water Resource, Iran Is Drying Up (Fred Pearce, Yale E360) (opens in new tab)

More than international sanctions, more than its stifling theocracy, more than recent bombardment by Israel and the U.S. — Iran’s greatest current existential crisis is what hydrologists are calling its rapidly approaching “water bankruptcy.”  It is a crisis that has a sad origin, they say: the destruction and abandonment