{"id":226592,"date":"2020-09-22T13:19:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T12:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=226592"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:45:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:45:05","slug":"irans-water-crisis-regimes-mismanagement-increases-peoples-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/society\/irans-water-crisis-regimes-mismanagement-increases-peoples-suffering\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Water Crisis: Regime\u2019s Mismanagement Increases People\u2019s Suffering"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The deprived citizens living in the southern, central, and eastern provinces of Iran are mostly affected by the water crisis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Iranians now face another crisis along with other crushing economic and social crises: water shortage. This crisis, like others, is the direct result of the regime\u2019s mismanagement and misuse of national wealth for its illicit activities. This crisis is due to the destruction of the country’s water infrastructure by institutions affiliated with the regime.<\/p>\n

The deprived citizens living in the southern, central, and eastern provinces of Iran are mostly affected by the water crisis. For example, there is a severe water crisis in the deprived Sistan and Baluchistan province,<\/a> southeastern Iran, particularly scarcity of running water. In the absence of pipelines or tankers, people dig ditches \u2013 called hootags \u2013 to collect rainwater. Village residents use the hootags as water reservoirs. Many children have fallen to their death in these deep hootags, and those who go to the lakes to fetch water are sometimes attacked and killed by crocodiles.<\/p>\n

The Iranian regime\u2019s state-run media have acknowledged parts of the water crisis in numerous provinces.<\/p>\n

Essa Kalantari, head of the regime\u2019s Environment Organization, in an interview with the state-run ISNA news agency on October 15, 2017, said: \u201cNot even a foreign enemy ruling this country would have been able destroy natural resources and the environment, as what has happened in the past years. We have experienced any kind of ecologic disasters within the last four-decades. Prior to this, many of the country’s environmental indicators, such as water were in a good position.\u201d<\/p>\n

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#Poverty<\/a> and deprivation in Sistan & Baluchestan province, southeast #Iran<\/a>, and its underdevelopment have left the people of this province facing exhausting difficulties economically and socially.https:\/\/t.co\/xmKb5QML9K<\/a><\/p>\n

— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) September 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n