your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

IT’S THE #WATER, STUPID

making a separate thread to this:
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/115866471452808920

because a lot of y’all are under the impression people in #Iran are rioting to live in Fuck-Yeah-Capitalist-USA Iran.

NO.

the “economic turmoil” in Iran is about #climateCrisis: the chaos of having no #water.

❝ Iran's Capital Has Run Out of Water, Forcing It to Move | Scientific American - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/irans-capital-has-run-out-of-water-forcing-it-to-move/

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Iran's Capital Has Run Out of Water, Forcing It to Move

The decision to move Iran’s capital is partly driven by climate change, but experts say decades of human error and action are also to blame

Scientific American
Jan 9 at 9:10pmWeb
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Jan 9

these two studies from the World Resources Institute should freak out everybody in the United States where #techbros are bribing their way into building data centers, WITH MONEY FROM QATAR & THE SAUDIS:

from 2015
Ranking the World’s Most Water-Stressed Countries in 2040 | World Resources Institute - https://www.wri.org/insights/ranking-worlds-most-water-stressed-countries-2040

from 2023
25 Countries Face Extremely High Water Stress | World Resources Institute - https://www.wri.org/insights/highest-water-stressed-countries

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Ranking the World’s Most Water-Stressed Countries in 2040

Globally, changing water supply and demand is inevitable; what that change will look like is far from certain. A first-of-its-kind analysis sheds new light on the issue.

World Resources Institute
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Jan 9

as per WRI, the top 25 countries in red alert for a #water #climateCrisis:

1. Bahrain
2. Cyprus
3. Kuwait
4. Lebanon
5. Oman
6. Qatar
7. United Arab Emirates
8. Saudi Arabia
9. Israel
10. Egypt
11. Libya
12. Yemen
13. Botswana
14. Iran
15. Jordan
16. Chile
17. San Marino
18. Belgium
19. Greece
20. Tunisia
21. Namibia
22. South Africa
23. Iraq
24. India
25. Syria

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Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Jan 9

❝ …With dry soils and high evaporation, rivers and wetlands shrank. Falling reservoir levels led to disruptions in hydropower generation, and water shortages prompted strict saving measures across parts of the capital. […] In November, President Masoud Pezeshkian said the capital would have to be moved. These cascading impacts exposed how vulnerable Tehran’s infrastructure, economy, and communities have become…

Why Tehran Is Running Out of Water https://eltahir.mit.edu/news/why-tehran-is-running-out-of-water/

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Why Tehran Is Running Out of Water – Eltahir Research Group

Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Jan 9

2023 #NASA images of #Iran’s Lake Urmia, which used to be one of the largest lakes in the Middle East

MODIS Web - April 6, 2023 - Shrinking Lake Urmia
https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2023-04-06

vs satellite images from 9 September 2025

Satellite Photos Show Middle East’s Largest Lake on Brink of Disappearing - Newsweek - https://www.newsweek.com/iran-lake-urmia-disappearing-water-crisis-2127726

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MODIS Web

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer website that houses all central information on the MODIS project

Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Jan 9

i keep reminding y’all, Adam Smith didn't write about Economics. he was a professor of Moral Philosophy who wrote about POLITICAL ECONOMY.

ECONOMIES ARE POLITICAL; especially when you turn them into weapons of mass destruction of natural resources.

what is happening in Iran will happen in every country where they put profits before people.

❝ After Ruining a Treasured Water Resource, Iran Is Drying Up https://e360.yale.edu/features/iran-water-drought-dams-qanats

🗣 IT’S THE #WATER, STUPID!

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After Ruining a Treasured Water Resource, Iran Is Drying Up

Iran is looking to relocate the nation’s capital because of severe water shortages that make Tehran unsustainable. Experts say the crisis was caused by years of ill-conceived dam projects and overpumping that destroyed a centuries-old system for tapping underground reserves. 

Yale E360
Show threadJohnJan 9

@blogdiva

I remember reading literally 20 years ago that every war fought in the second half of the 21st century will be over water.

Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Jan 9
@johnzajac you and me, babe, you and me
Show threadLor 🦕Jan 9

@johnzajac @blogdiva

It will be and the data center explosion is adding a new scary twist. It will happen sooner now.

Show threadRandall LeeJan 9
@blogdiva Tech bros will be telling us AI will save on water consumption as the last drop of water is sucked out of the municipal water supply.
Show threadDavid J. AtkinsonJan 9
@blogdiva We are all on that list. That is what the climate global catastrophe means.
Show threadMatt RifeJan 9

@blogdiva To wit: the dummies are intent on draining what's left of the Ogallala Aquifer for their data center complex in Amarillo. Ain't a lot of water in Amarillo, folks.

https://www.404media.co/project-matador-datacenter-amarillo-texas/

Texans Are Fighting a 6,000 Acre Nuclear-Powered Datacenter

"They're being told that this is inevitable," a member of the 806 Data Center Resistance told 404 Media. "But Texas is this other beast."

404 Media
Show threadTheJen will not complyJan 9

@mlrife @blogdiva

And this means that most of New Mexico will also have no water as that is the only underground resource. What's not been drained for fraccing now goes to Amarillo for this nonsense.

I'm from that area (Lubbock). It used to be green. Farms. Not anymore. Desertification is taking over.

Show threadMatt RifeJan 9
@TheJen @blogdiva I don't know what's worse; the water or the fact that Rick Perry is in charge of the company allegedly building the nukes. (Spoiler: there will be no reactors so it will be infinite methane generators spewing pollution.)
Show threadTheJen will not complyJan 9
@mlrife @blogdiva YUM! Well, Perry is from that area too. His father owned a cattle ranch up there. He knows there's no friggin water. But he's a fool, so...
Show threadMichael GeaneyJan 9

@blogdiva Water is definitely an issue. But it is so much bigger than that. Decades of oppression. An economy that has been completely and intentionally mismanaged. Public funds not spent for public good but distributed to Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis. Weaponisation of religion an excuse for abuse and denial of basic rights. Women treated as less than second class citizens with no rights beyond their father or husband.

We don't have to distill things down to one root cause. Our job is to help spread the will of the Iranian people against their fascist government. Not to tell them or others what they are fighting for. Let's just support. Please.

Show threadbearsongJan 10

@blogdiva

thank you for highlighting this, the water situation across Iran is terrifying.

https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/885570
has more observations:
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Iran faces a rural collapse with 31,000 villages deserted due to drought and water mismanagement. Officials report a massive demographic shift as drying wetlands force millions into cities.
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#iran #water #climateEmergency

Show threadPeter_PantherJan 11
@blogdiva
@afouxenidis @foufoutos Αν ειναι ετσι οπως τα λέει (και οι ενδειξεις ειναι ισχυρες) θα πρεπει να φυλαμε τα νερα μας, μπας και μας μεινει τιποτε.