US EditionTehran taps run dry as water crisis deepens across Iran
Tehran's five main dams are at about 10% capacity, with reservoirs nearly half empty, prompting emergency rationing and pressure cuts amid the worst drought in decades.
- On November 11, 2025, photos showed the Kan River dry and Tehran's five reservoirs nearly empty, leaving Tehran residents, about 10 million, facing taps running dry.
- Decades of mismanagement and drought have left Iran in its sixth consecutive year of drought, with only 2.3mm precipitation by early November, worsening Tehran's water shortages since May.
- Behzad Parsa said last week that Tehran's reservoirs now hold barely 250 million cubic meters, while the Amir Kabir Dam is at 8% capacity and the five main dams average about 10%.
- Authorities have begun nightly pressure reductions as Iran's National Water and Wastewater Company confirmed supplies could drop to zero in some districts.
- More than 90% of Iran's water goes to the agricultural sector while household consumers use less than 8%, so experts urge resilience-based management, groundwater recharge, and infrastructure investment.
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