To a state near you???
Mismanagement, corruption, and just plain stupidity have brought the nation of Iran to the doorstep of utter catastrophe. This, according to an extensive report by the Middle East Forum on Iran’s “terminal” water crisis.
“Thirst of a Nation: Iran’s Water-Driven Trajectory Toward State Failure and a Blueprint for Recovery” details more than 40 years of mismanagement and corruption by Iran’s clerical elites that have led to Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian calling for relocating the nation’s capital city, Tehran, due to the municipality approaching “Day Zero” water conditions.
“The foundational condition is one of ‘water bankruptcy’—a permanent, structural deficit where national water demand far outstrips renewable supply,” write the authors of the report, Guy Goldstein and Rebecca Bar-Sef.
Full article, HERE from PJ Media. Text of the report, HERE.
Even worse, the lack of water is impacting the hydro electric production, causing brownouts and blackouts nationwide. And this also impacts pumping stations that are supposed to move the water.
Israel, on the other hand, achieves water security through desalination and recycling, and a LOT less corruption. The Saudis are also working a water security plan similar to Israel’s with a goal of water security by 2030.
We’re starting, or I should say ‘continuing’ to hear about shortages of water here in the US too…
A subdivision in Arizona that is basically abandoned because they can’t get water. Wells in the Central Valley of California that cost $50,000 and up with no guarantee they will find water at any depth.
The battles over the Colorado River water. Either Arizona or New Mexico is supposedly ‘buying’ salt water from Mexico and pumping it into their state. And the aquifers are down, and not refilling quickly due to farm/city/subdivision use exceeding the aquifer’s capabilities.
And then there is Lake Mead… It is declining again after a temporary increase in 2023. Projections indicate that the lake is likely to reach its lowest recorded levels by 2027 due to ongoing drought and water usage.
Mono Lake is another California debacle, it is 350 miles from LA, but they take ALL of the feeders that feed the lake for LA.
It is ‘supposed’ to be maintained at 6392 feet, but as of 1 Nov it was at 6382.2 feet. The cutoff for LA is at 6380 feet, so it is estimated they will get there by April 2026 if not before, forcing LA to stop sucking off the feeders. So LA will probably have a ‘water shortage’ next year…
If you’re planning on moving to the Southwest or West, you need to take a hard look at the water availability where you’re looking at moving…just sayin…
Funny how supposedly smart people overlook things like this. The water situation is one of the reasons I moved my family out of Florida years ago. They have enough water right now, but eventually they will be in the same boat as California. Just the way that sand bar is built.
THe entire Colorado River water system has been mismanaged for decades.
They held/released water from the different reservoirs based on rainfall predictions and data they knew was erroneous.
Then they drained the upper basins to keep Mead higher for as long as they could.
Now there is nothing left.
If we had pursued nuclear, we’d probably be desalinizing a lot more by now.
Yet building permits keep getting issued.
Management of the Colorado River was messed up (I’m trying to keep this PG) from day one. When Hover Dam was built in the 30’s waterer allocations were based on the highest recorded river flows, this was done in part to “sell” the dam project to Nevada, Arizona, and the California Central valley farmers. Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado were relatively undeveloped and were more than happy to sell their water allocations to California for LA and the Central valley. Nothing changed when Glen Canyon Dam was built in the early 60s, even though people that knew were warning the government that the house of cards would eventually collapse.
By the 70s, Nevada, Arizona and Colorado were developing rapidly, the Central Arizona project was built to bring Lake Meade water to Phoenix, and those states stopped selling water to California and began using their allocations. Long term drought in the southwest exacerbated the problem as there wasn’t enough water to meet the allocations. Now the Colorado doesn’t even flow into the Gulf of California, Mexico is screwed out of their share, and the state with the second longest coastline in the US won’t even consider desalinization plants.
Agriculture in California and Arizona is drying up to feed the urban areas with water.
Weaponized warfare of weather, starting just after WWll. DARPA/HAARP enhanced it the fine tuned weapon it is today. That’s why Iran and the American West is suffering droughts.
TM: Why would the US gov want American to run out of water?
Robert,
The US Govt./bureaucracy,is run by (((Them))), the Cabal, Synagogue of Satan, Commies, The Families, all the various (competing/cooperating) franchises of Satan. They make up the Powers and Principalities (Ephesians 6:10-18).
(((They))) want to weaken, collapse the US, western civ. “From chaos, order” to build their Commie, transhumanist, utopia, where “you will own nothing and be happy”.
If you haven’t dealt with any of the above subjects before, then it will all be nonsense to you. The abridged version doesn’t work very well. There’s years of rabbit hole(forbidden knowledge/history) chasing.
Ah. OK, thank you.
I suspect the layers of complication are unnecessary to explain our ongoing mess as simple greed, selfishness, and ineptitude may be sufficient. I could be wrong. Hang in there.
Some history.
https://eccentricculinary.com/californias-vanishing-lakes-and-the-hunger-of-the-mines/
Enlargeable map. (Browser add blockers may screw up access).
https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~1635~180047:Map-Of-The-San-Joaquin,-Sacramento-
But closer to home western Kansas, Nebraska and eastern Colorado are all facing water shortages. Irrigation has pumped the Ogallala Aquifer down to where wells are drying up.
And on top of these facts let’s bring say, 12 million or so new water users to be “free”.
My 101 courses in school taught me the supply/demand equation.
So simple, yet ignored.
Texas has its water problems. Lake Medina is almost at dead pool stage, and the Amistad Reservoir is far from what it was envisioned. Both are being drained by farming, and with Mexico using Amistad without any effort to keep from draining it dry, it too will someday reach dead pool level. They are not isolated problems. The Hill country is an expanding, unsustainable water demand, which has led to all types of propositions to pump water from elsewhere in the state.
We’re about an hour NW of San Antonio. The development is heading our way. We have a good well (600′) but the water is really hard. I put in gutters on the house and barn – approx 5,000 sqft of roof line. Laid bout 400′ of water line to a 36,000 gallon storage tank. Every sqft of roof line will give me 2/3 of gallon of water from a 1″ rain. We live on filtered rainwater and love it.
All- You’re all correct…dammit… RHT- Thanks for those links! As a friend says, based on the history of the west, whisky is for drinking, water is for fighting.
Measure twice, cut once applies to any water decision.
WSF- True.
Lord!
Are people dense???
It’s called the DESERT Southwest for a reason.
There’s too many people for the available water.
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This is the stuff I worry about. I live just downstream of a lake that is used a reservoir. The county I live in has had a huge increase in population over the last 25 years and the building/developing still isn’t stopping. Last I checked, the lake and the river that feeds it ain’t getting any bigger. When does the population outrun the water? I don’t really want to find out.