TEHRAN,
Water levels in the dams supplying Iran’s northeastern city of Mashhad have fallen below three percent, media reported on Sunday, as the country faces severe water shortages.
“The water storage in Mashhad’s dams has now dropped to less than three percent,” Hossein Esmaeilian, chief executive of the water company serving Iran’s second-largest city by population, told ISNA news agency.
He added that “the current situation shows that managing water use is no longer merely a recommendation – it has become a necessity.”