TEHRAN: Water levels at the dam reservoirs supplying Iran’s northeastern city of Mashhad plunged below three percent, media reported on Sunday, as the country suffers from severe water shortages.
“The water storage in Mashhad’s dams has now fallen to less than 3 percent,” said Hossein Esmaeilian, the chief executive of the water company in Iran’s second largest city by population.
He added that “the current situation shows that managing water use is no longer merely a recommendation — it has become a necessity.”
Mashhad, home to around 4 million people, relies on four dams for its water supply.
Esmaeilian said consumption in the city had reached around “8,000 liters per second, of which about 1,000 to 1,500 liters per second is supplied from the dams.”
