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Thirsty in the Desert: This is the most chilling part. 80% of the water Israel drinks comes from the sea (desalination). These water plants "devour" massive amounts of electricity. If the power from these 5 plants fails, the pumps stop. Within 48 hours, a chaos unfolds that we haven't seen in modern history – a nation without water in the middle of a conflict.

It's been started already, and it's not going to end anytime soon. Some of it will never end until the final end.

Yesterday's war crimes are today's weapons of choice. The biggest winner here is Putin, will finance his bucket list as the supply of oil will narrow down to Russia.

On another note, Putin is reported to be giving the best care to the now leader of Iran. Of course then it was denied. It would be expected giving the close relationship Russia has with Iran.

Iran's new leader receives medical treatment in Russia: report
https://www.rawstory.com/trumps-pal-putin-flies-irans-supreme-leader/
María Teresita Armstrong-Matta
March 16, 2026 8:05PM ET



https://bsky.app/profile/leahmcelrath.bsky.social/post/3mgkrwy5jak2z

"Blatant and desperate crime": Iran's FM condemns US attack on Qeshm's freshwater desalination plant, warns of grave consequences
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/world/blatant-and-desperate-crime-irans-fm-condemns-us-attack-on-qeshms-freshwater-desalination-plant-warns-of-grave-consequences/
Updated At : 09:30 PM Mar 07, 2026 IST

Tehran [Iran], March 7 (ANI): Iran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Saturday condemned the US attack on a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island, stating it's a "blatant and desperate crime" with grave consequences.

In a post on X, Araghchi emphasised that the US has set a dangerous precedent by targeting Iran's infrastructure.

"The U.S. committed a blatant and desperate crime by attacking a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island. Water supply in 30 villages has been impacted. Attacking Iran's infrastructure is a dangerous move with grave consequences. The U.S. set this precedent, not Iran," Araghchi posted on X.

The U.S. committed a blatant and desperate crime by attacking a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island. Water supply in 30 villages has been impacted.

Attacking Iran's infrastructure is a dangerous move with grave consequences. The U.S. set this precedent, not Iran.

— Seyed Abbas Araghchi (@araghchi) March 7, 2026

Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump announced that Iran promised not to attack its neighbours anymore.

In a post on Truth Social, he said, "Iran, which is being beaten to HELL, has apologised and surrendered to its Middle East neighbours, and promised that it will not shoot at them anymore. This promise was only made because of the relentless U.S. and Israeli attacks. They were looking to take over and rule the Middle East. It is the first time that Iran has ever lost, in thousands of years, to surrounding Middle Eastern Countries."



The US is not as far away to this issue as the regime want's one to believe.


Iran’s Water Crisis Is a Warning to Other Countries
Without addressing the worsening issue’s root causes, any mitigation efforts will likely fall short. States in similar situations should take note.
https://carnegieendowment.org/emissary/2025/11/iran-water-crisis-warning-climate
By Eric Lob
Published on Nov 24, 2025

Earlier this month, Iranian officials warned that Tehran could run out of drinking water within two weeks due to a historic drought. In the past year, the country’s average annual rainfall has dropped to 45 percent below normal, and nineteen of its thirty-one provinces are in a severe drought. The dams and reservoirs that supply the capital have dried up and are operating at minimal capacity, with some at only 5 percent of reserve capacity. Fears of an emergency evacuation of the capital are mounting, and taps are running dry.

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and President Masoud Pezeshkian have both publicly acknowledged the severity and seriousness of a crisis that has been years in the making. But without addressing the root causes, any mitigation efforts will likely fall short—setting Iran up as an example for its neighbors and others facing water crises of their own.

A Long-Building Crisis

For Iran, the water scarcity crisis is a cruel irony, given the country had pioneered water management systems—known as the qanat or karez—millennia ago. During the past several decades, it abandoned and replaced the qanat with wells, aquifers, and other modern systems that were less efficient or environmentally friendly. Since the early 2000s (if not before), and despite constructing hundreds of dams and reservoirs to create a more consistent water supply, the state faced a worsening crisis, with the annual groundwater availability, storage, and recharge steadily declining.

The crisis is also the byproduct of factors such as population growth, rising demand, resource exploitation, and uneven distribution—many of which are aggravated by climate change and prolonged drought. Government mismanagement and corruption also contributed: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp’s dam-building firm, Sepasad, was one of several companies that prioritized political power and predatory profit-seeking over water preservation, ecological protection, and public prosperity. Some in Iran refer to Sepasad and its collaborators as the “water mafia.”

Starting in the 2010s, Iranian and UN officials openly declared the situation a crisis. In July 2013, the former Minister of Agriculture Isa Kalantari famously stated that the shrinking water supply constituted a bigger threat to Iran than its external enemies or elite infighting and could cause the country to become uninhabitable in the future. An ongoing symptom and symbol of the crisis was Lake Urmia in northwest Iran: Once among the world’s largest saltwater lakes, Urmia was steadily shrinking, in spite of a decade of restoration efforts.

In Tehran, the crisis is particularly acute: Last year, rainfall totals dropped 42 percent below the long-term average, at the same time as the capital set records for water consumption. The city and province are in the midst of a five-year drought, when in the past, two dry years had been followed by a wet one....................

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