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A crisis long foreseen

Iran's water crisis has been decades in the making.

Even Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has repeatedly acknowledged the looming threat speaking about water shortages in his Nowruz addresses in 2011 and on other occasions in the following years.
Yet little has changed.

Today, Tehran, Karaj and Mashhad home to more than 16 million people combined are facing the real possibility of their taps running dry.

Makes me wonder. If the country valued better relations with the West and spent more of its money on domestic infrastructure instead of spreading chaos in the Middle East as well as repression of its own citizens, would it have desalination plants that could help alleviate this crisis? They have the oil money to afford them and had decades to do something about it.

President Masoud Pezeshkian has warned that if there is not enough rainfall soon, Tehran's water supply could be rationed. But he said that even rationing might not be enough to prevent a disaster.
"If rationing doesn't work," Pezeshkian said, "we may have to evacuate Tehran."
His comments have prompted criticism in Iranian newspapers and on social media. Former Tehran mayor Gholamhossein Karbaschi called the idea "a joke" and said "evacuating Tehran makes no sense at all".

So the situation is dire enough they are considering abandoning the capital? Granted, my takeaway from this is if evacuation may fix this that means that other parts of the country do have water.