Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens(www.iranintl.com)
20 pointsby DrierCycle9 hours ago5 comments
  • ares6233 hours ago
    > country "no longer has a choice"

    I bet it had a couple of choices before this point. The government made all those choices as they came. Now it's being made for them.

    I feel sorry for the people of Tehran.

    I wonder how soon every other place is due. Sooner or later the same choice will be made for all of us.

    • kronicum2025an hour ago
      tbh US made a choice for them long ago.
  • conartist64 hours ago
    Wow. The future of living in a barren rock is getting here fast fast fast
    • spwa42 minutes ago
      Just so we're clear: fresh water is shifting location ... when it comes to the total available, it's increasing. There are many more locations were humans can now live where they couldn't compared to a century ago, not less.

      Teheran has more water than a century ago. But more does not mean infinite.

    • lysace3 hours ago
      To be clear: the cause here is decades of mismanagement.
      • mingus882 hours ago
        Have you seen the general state of … well, everything?
      • renewiltord3 hours ago
        Fully expect the grey men to say the same of us when they look at a cooked Earth: yes, to be clear, it was mismanagement
  • stpedgwdgfhgdd3 hours ago
    And why?

    Climate change (no rain) but especially bad water mgt.

    • kotaKat2 hours ago
      Yeah, there's something about allocating all of your water to those pesky Shahed drone factories for Russia instead of your civilian needs.
  • coffeebeqn3 hours ago
    Land subsiding by 30cm per day? That sounds pretty intense. Your whole door would be underground in a few days
    • jadamson2 hours ago
      Fairly sure that's a typo, or he misspoke, given the sentence immediately before says "per year".
    • imtringued3 hours ago
      Not to mention the permanent destruction of your drained acquifers, which means you can't go back even if you wanted to, because that's what's causing the sinking in the first place.
  • tamimio2 hours ago
    So they can’t make a water pipeline from the gulf because it’s costly, but moving a whole capital is not?! It seems there are other motivations.
    • mingus882 hours ago
      Moving a capital is bureaucratic. Setting up new offices does sound a lot cheaper than engineering a new water pipeline for millions of people across 300 miles.
      • lazide2 hours ago
        The people move still needs to happen assuming those people still need water?