Dam reservoir levels in Iran’s second biggest city ‘drop below 3 per cent’
Water levels at the dam reservoirs supplying Iran’s northeastern city of Mashhad plunged below three per cent, media reported on Sunday, as the country suffers from severe water shortages. “The water storage in Mashhad’s dams has now fallen to less than three per cent,” Hossein Esmaeilian, the chief executive of the water company in Iran’s second largest city by population, told ISNA news agency. He added that “the current situation shows that managing water use is no longer merely a...