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Amid a deepening ecological crisis and acute water shortage, Tehran can no longer remain the capital of #Iran<\/a>, the country\u2019s president has said. https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/irans-capital-has-run-out-of-water-forcing-it-to-move\/<\/a><\/p> The situation in Tehran is the result of \u201ca perfect storm of climate change and corruption,\u201d says Michael Rubin, a political analyst at the American Enterprise Institute.<\/p> \u201cWe no longer have a choice,\u201d said Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian during a speech on Thursday.<\/p> Instead Iranian officials are considering moving the capital to the country\u2019s southern coast. But experts say the proposal does not change the reality for the nearly 10 million people who live in Tehran and are now suffering the consequences of a decades-long decline in water supply.<\/p> Since at least 2008, scientists have warned that unchecked groundwater pumping for the city and for agriculture was rapidly draining the country\u2019s aquifers. The overuse did not just deplete underground reserves\u2014it destroyed them, as the land compressed and sank irreversibly. One recent study found that Iran\u2019s central plateau, where most of the country\u2019s aquifers are located, is sinking by more than 35 centimeters each year. As a result, the aquifers lose about 1.7 billion cubic meters of water annually as the ground is permanently crushed, leaving no space for underground water storage to recover.<\/p> #ClimateEmergency<\/a><\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-24:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/m.ai6yr.org\/users\/exador23\/statuses\/115591608455670001","object":{"id":"https:\/\/m.ai6yr.org\/users\/exador23\/statuses\/115591608455670001","objectType":"note","content":" WHOA.<\/p> Amid a deepening ecological crisis and acute water shortage, Tehran can no longer remain the capital of #Iran<\/a>, the country\u2019s president has said. https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/irans-capital-has-run-out-of-water-forcing-it-to-move\/<\/a><\/p> The situation in Tehran is the result of \u201ca perfect storm of climate change and corruption,\u201d says Michael Rubin, a political analyst at the American Enterprise Institute.<\/p> \u201cWe no longer have a choice,\u201d said Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian during a speech on Thursday.<\/p> Instead Iranian officials are considering moving the capital to the country\u2019s southern coast. But experts say the proposal does not change the reality for the nearly 10 million people who live in Tehran and are now suffering the consequences of a decades-long decline in water supply.<\/p> Since at least 2008, scientists have warned that unchecked groundwater pumping for the city and for agriculture was rapidly draining the country\u2019s aquifers. The overuse did not just deplete underground reserves\u2014it destroyed them, as the land compressed and sank irreversibly. One recent study found that Iran\u2019s central plateau, where most of the country\u2019s aquifers are located, is sinking by more than 35 centimeters each year. As a result, the aquifers lose about 1.7 billion cubic meters of water annually as the ground is permanently crushed, leaving no space for underground water storage to recover.<\/p>