Overview
- Authorities have begun periodic supply cuts across the capital to reduce consumption.
- Of the five dams feeding Tehran, one is empty and another holds less than 8% of capacity, according to local reports.
- Iran is in a sixth consecutive drought year, with early-November precipitation 81% below the long-term average, the meteorological agency said.
- President Masoud Pezeshkian warned rationing may be required without rain and raised evacuation as a worst-case scenario later described by officials as not an active plan.
- Officials estimate Tehran uses about three million cubic meters of water daily, while residents gathered at Emamzadeh Saleh mosque to pray for rain.