Iran official warns water crisis could lead to mass migration - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Arash Karami

Arash Karami

Apr 28, 2015

Young Iranian women carry jugs of water, filled at water distribution point, to their village outside Zabol in south eastern Iran, July 17, 2001. Iran's Sistan-Baluchistan province is suffering from a third consecutive year of drought which the United Nations says has cost the country $2.6 billion in dammages this year, up from $1.7 billion last year. Local officials say without rain remaining water sources will dry up by December. - RTXKN5I — Young Iranian women carry jugs of water, filled at a water distribution point, to their village outside Zabol in southeastern Iran, July 17, 2001. — REUTERS

عربي

An Iranian woman walks with her daughter past an abandoned boat in Sikh Sar village at Hamoon wetland near the Zabol town, in southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan bordering Afghanistan on February 2, 2015. AFP PHOTO/BEHROUZ MEHRI (Photo credit should read BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images)

Iran's water crisis reaches critical levels

Bijan Khajehpour

Bijan Khajehpour

In Vienna, reporting on Iranian politics

Masoumeh Ebtekar, Vice President of the Islamic Republic of Iran hands a letter from Iran's President Hassan Rouhani to Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) at the latter's official residence in Tokyo April 3, 2014. REUTERS/Kimimasa Mayama/Pool (JAPAN - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3JQOG

Top Iran official warns of climate change

Arash Karami

Fun boats lie on the bank of the dried-up Zayanderood River in Isfahan, 450 km (281 miles) south of Tehran, June 27, 2008. The river dried up due to low rainfall and the water being re-channelled for hydroelectricity purposes. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl (IRAN) - RTX7EUD

Drought triggers protests in Iran

A correspondent in Tehran

A correspondent in Tehran

In Tehran, reporting on politics

Iranians flock to greener pastures on Caspian coast

Saeed Jalili