A drought that will continue

According to the reporter of Moj News Agency, the drought that started for the last four years at the same time as climate changes and the gradual decrease of atmospheric precipitation in Iran has now reached a critical stage and has turned the issue of water shortage into the country’s most important economic, social and security challenge. Is.

This is happening while the people of Iran have never witnessed a dry fall and decline in the past 54 years Water reserves of the country It has never been more worrying than it is today.

According to the forecasts, the country’s rainfall has decreased in the second half of 1401 compared to the same period, and unfortunately, the drought will continue, and in the winter season, rainfall will be lower than normal and temperatures will be higher than normal for the past 30 years.

Last year, in continuation of the drought of two years before that, we saw a rainless fall and winter, and the few resources left from running water and underground aquifers could barely supply the country’s consumption, but this year we are 25% behind even the last fall’s rains. .

According to the head of the National Center for Climate and Crisis Management Drought Since the beginning of the current water year and even last month, the air temperature has been about 1.4 degrees Celsius higher than the normal or long-term average, and many parts of the country witnessed little rainfall, and Tehran, Alborz, Semnan and southern areas of Alborz such as Qazvin and the western regions of the country including Kermanshah, Hamadan and Ilam witnessed below normal rainfall.

Now, about 65% of the country’s dam reservoirs are empty, and excessive extraction from underground wells has caused two-thirds of Iran’s plains to face subsidence. The deficit of the country’s underground water resources, which was about 2 billion cubic meters in 1378, has now increased to 70 times and has reached more than 140 billion cubic meters. This event means that we need 3 times the volume of all the country’s dams to bring our empty underground aquifers back to the not so favorable conditions of 23 years ago.

On the other hand, the amount of water consumption in the country is constantly increasing, so that in recent years, the first rank of water consumption growth in the world has been reserved for Iran.

However, according to the predictions Meteorology We cannot expect a rainy winter and rainfall is expected to be less than normal, but the noteworthy point is that this year is the third year of low rainfall and the effects of drought will be even more severe in many parts of the country than last year, and now also in parts of Agriculture, production of hydroelectric energy and hydrological cycles, etc. have had many effects.

The head of the National Center for Climate and Drought Crisis Management has said that the temperature of the country has been above normal so far, so we do not expect a very cold and below normal winter and the temperature is within the normal range and above normal for the past 30 years. will be

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