A motorcycle driver carrying water tanks in Teheran. After a five-year drought and decades of mismanagement, Teheran is at risk of running out of water in several weeks, the government warned. — Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times
SOME of Iran’s deepest reservoirs have shrunk to shallow ponds.
Water pressure is so low in parts of Teheran that taps in apartment buildings run dry for hours.
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