Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple. - Bill Mollison
What simple solution are you referring to? Depopulating Tehran?
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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
#92The RealLifeLore YouTube channel published a video about this not long ago: https://youtu.be/n8kSGH4I8Ps
Re: After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up
#93TYS = told ya so
The Iranian mullahs locked up everyone who warned them about the upcoming water crisis.
Re: After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
What simple solution are you referring to? Depopulating Tehran?
Use less water? Probably by recycling the water that is actually used. If las Vegas can survive in the desert, any city can. The problem is getting the money to apply the fixes required.
Las Vegas was built in the oasis.
Re: After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up
#95Re: After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up
#96> However, unpublished national observations revealed groundwater depletion in some plains from as early as the 1950s. This coincided with the gradual replacement of Persian qanats, which were sustainable groundwater extraction systems and UNESCO World Cultural Heritage sites9, with (semi)deep wells. https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/irn/ira... says Iran’s population today is over five times that o…
And the reason qanats weren't sufficient anymore, was that they pursued a policy of food independence, due to sanctions/a desire for political autonomy.
I'm not so sure they could have done much different.
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#97China is doing this too in the west.
What? What are you referring to?
Re: After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
They have plenty of mines for iron amd otber metals in western countries as well. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butte,_Montana
Not to mention that Brazil is a Western country.
NB: "West" is less a term of hemispheric fidelity (Australia and New Zealand are typically seen as "western" countries, despite being in the eastern hemisphere), than it is of cultural derivation (on which Brazil has additional claims, via Portugal), and far more prominently, geopolitical and industrial significance, focusing on the industrial, colonial, and financial powers of the world, largely the US, western Europe (a large portion of which is ... in the eastern hemisphere), AU and NZ as mentioned, and arguably Japan.
The term is often used to avoid (or sometimes conflate) what have become problematic and/or obsolte terms, including colonial empires, advanced vs. undeveloped countries, NATO vs. Soviet Bloc states, or the similarly cardinal-directed "Global North" vs. "Global South".
Pedantry on the point (my own included) isn't particularly illuminating or interesting.
Wikipedia's disambiguation page suggests the vagueness of the term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_(disambiguation)>.
Edit: /Brazil has claims/s/has/& additional/
Re: After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up
#99Next up: Las Vegas
The next one is likely Utah, they are drying up the Great Salt Lake for alfalfa production, producing the next Owens Lake, likely making Salt Lake City and other cites unhabitable within a decade or two.
Re: After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up
#100Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple. - Bill Mollison
What simple solution are you referring to? Depopulating Tehran?
As far I remember a large reason for the water crisis is subsidizing water for agriculture which does not fit the local climate
This is based on some ideological pillar of being autarkic, as the Islamic Republic was generally built upon the fear of outside influence
sounds like if 90% of their water goes to agriculture, mostly export, and their country is cash strapped due to their habit of kidnappings, then maybe there's a simple solution here