He explained at a press conference that reducing water pressure in the capital contributed to saving about 15 cubic meters per second, which is more than five times the amount of water transferred from the Taleqan Dam northwest of Tehran. Ali Abadi urged residents to install home tanks and rationalize consumption, according to the Iranian news agency ‘Mehr’.
The warning follows a statement by Iranian President Masoud Bzshkian on Friday that Tehran may face the possibility of evacuating its residents if rain does not fall before the end of this year.
Iran is generally experiencing a sharp decline in rainfall, but the crisis is concentrated in the capital, which has more than 10 million inhabitants. The decrease in precipitation and the reduction in dam reserves have led to one of the worst droughts in decades, accompanied by repeated water outages in various neighborhoods of the city.
