So the sanctions will eventually work and topple the regime?
After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up
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Re: After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Like the American regime, maybe they will try to blame everything on someone else. Though I’m skeptical that ever works for long.
The American "regime" has a country that people are literally fighting in line to get into.
Re: After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up
#23I grew up in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, a region full of natural resources and, thankfully, aquifers and natural water reservoirs. However, centuries of extraction mismanagement and, more recently, over exploration of mineral resources puts these water resources into jeopardy. (Other problems include mining in open pits and with sludge dams that led to two of the worse environmental disasters in the world i…
this same problem is one of the side effects of mining for the metals used in things like solar panels
it comes at the sacrifice of many non-western countries and this conversation is never on the table
it's such a shame things that could otherwise last for thousands of years will get destroyed by a few decades of mismanagement
Re: After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Like the American regime, maybe they will try to blame everything on someone else. Though I’m skeptical that ever works for long.
The American "regime" has a country that people are literally fighting in line to get into.
Not only is that wrong, it’s not relevant to the topic of a regime doing dumb things and then trying to scapegoat.
I think the extent to which it’s effective may be a proxy for an electorate’s intellectual health. So while we see failures to take responsibility (what role models the world has for leaders…), that scapegoating doesn’t always work. And if so, not for long.
What got me thinking about this is the Conservative guy up here in Canada has been trying this playbook and it’s just not working. Worse, it’s actually eroding his party’s power in a very measurable way.
Tehran becoming intolerably difficult to live in because of basic resource mismanagement will be a very hard one to spin. But I suspect we will see an attempt at scapegoating.
Re: After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up
#25So the sanctions will eventually work and topple the regime?
In 10 years there won’t be a regime in Iran because Iran won’t exist as it does today. With the collapsing water table people are going to be forced into either death or migration.
I don’t want to be a doom and gloom guy, but the climate change collapse is starting to happen in front of our eyes—and not just in a far off ‘eventually this will be a problem’ way.
Re: After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up
#26So the sanctions will eventually work and topple the regime?
Not really, no. The sanctions slow the regime down from destroying more than just their own people.
Re: After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up
#27Sounds like it would be cheaper to build desalination plants on the coast, and pipe the water in. Iran certainly has the technology and brainpower to do that.
Re: After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up
#28China is doing this too in the west.
What? What are you referring to?
Re: After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up
#29So... given that the Iranian regime is not paying any heed to the experts, does this mean that the end of their regime will be because of their own arrogance and incompetence?
Unlikely. My country have been through this (at a whole country level, not just a single city) for two years. It sped up desalination projects. People re-adjusted to the lack of water. Prices adjusted. Lots of water is wasted and very little water is actually being used for drinking. At the end, the rain came and it coincided with many desalination plants starting operations. The prime minister suggesting evacuations…
They’re already straining to truck in enough water for survival now WITH some of the wells still working. If the ability to source water locally stops the people of Tehran will either need to move or die. With aquifers running dry from iran to Afghanistan they’ll have to migrate even further. I think we could see the entire region plunge further into chaos as the water crisis worsens.
Re: After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up
#30I am not saying there is no crisis coming, but I recall reading that Tehran will be out of water in two weeks, two months ago. What's up with that?
I read a similar prediction about Cape Town not long ago. It hasn't happened there despite the serious threat.