Crisis makes people tense. A crisis adds anxiety and stress. It happens to an individual to families. And to nations. Compound crisis through negligence and refusing to alter the course taken to address the crisis and terrible, horrific events can happen, likely will happen.
When the authorities of a nation place all their focus, resources, and time fueling hatred and plotting for destruction, it is a given that will have direct cause of events internally leading to external events.
The pressure will erupt. Something has to give. And it usually isn’t calm, reason, rational thought, or awareness leading to an orderly resolution.
Most times, the pressure is seen in the release of anger, seeking violence, to lash out, to dominate, to imagine the object or objects consumed in hatred — if only they could be removed, everything would be good.
This is how wars escalate.
It’s been quite a while since I was writing and adding prefaces to articles about how we all were experiencing World War III. Tragically, the overwhelming majority of folks appear to need something so earth-shaking — to arouse them from their slumber — before they take notice, believe, and then ask, “How did this happen!? Why didn’t someone do something to stop this!?” And on and on, the foolishness, the banality, the ridiculousness of people is revealed.
The whole world has been like a large pot on a high BTU output commercial stove [I worked with, around, and over many of these for many, many years putting out energy, heat most folks can’t ever imagine] and if that pot, filled too much, left on that burner with this person, that person always adding to the pot, stirring it, cranking up the heat — well, it’s going to be a huge mess.
Much worse than some chili, soup, or sauce to clean up.
Water is rather important.
As is oil.
Wars have been fought over those two things and over much less.
Word Wars, friends.
As I wrote some months back — don’t wait for a mushroom cloud, or for missiles to be raining down in Europe to suddenly sit up and take notice, finally saying, “Wow, I guess something big is happening.”
It’s been happening.
It’s been building for many, many months.
Years.
Until and unless there is a collection of rational, utterly aware of the magnitude, calm voices [rarer in these times than a 78,000 carat perfect diamond buried in your yard] bomb diffusers, literally and figuratively, what is visible, audible is nothing but increased noise from every corner. Escalation. A lot of lying, deception going on. A lot of shuffling pieces around. A lot of chest thumping and posturing.
And all it takes is one act.
The shot heard round the world. That straw that was somehow exactly enough to break a camel’s back. Had enough cliches?
Let’s pray earnestly, fervently, and faithfully for peace.
But when a nation’s top priority is their hatred of Israel, of America, of Jews, of Christians, and daily they organize and pay citizens to gather and shout “DEATH TO AMERICA, DEATH TO THE BIG SATAN! DEATH TO ISRAEL! DEATH TO THE LITTLE SATAN!” — those aren’t mere protests. Those are declarations of war. Ignored by the naive West.
When resources are inordinately appropriated for centrifuges and uranium enrichment, which is just uranium purification to make it useable for a nuclear warhead, and resources are appropriated for massive military facilities, underground labs, and an inordinate percentage of revenues are directed to efforts and instruments of destruction, and you don’t provide the basics for your people? And you have a water crisis unlike any in the modern age?
Hummm…
It might lead to some increased tension.
Read on…
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Ken Pullen, Wednesday, April 9th, 2025
Iran’s Water Crisis
Big trouble for the Mullahs.
April 9, 2025
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Reprinted from Frontpage Magazine
Iran is suffering its worst water crisis of its entire modern existence. Decades of neglect and mismanagement of its water infrastructure by the Iranian government, along with geopolitical factors that have cut off Tehran’s access to the foremost experts in water management — the hated state of Israel — are two of the factors. So is the steep rise in Iran’s population, which went from 37 million when the ayatollahs’ regime took over to 90 million today, with the obvious concomitant rise in water use. The nuclear project that Iran’s rulers insist on continuing has cost the country tens of billions of dollars in both direct costs and from the sanctions imposed on Iran by the West — money that might have been spent on water conservation, advanced water-saving irrigation techniques, desalination plants, and even on the Watergen machines, a recent Israeli invention that produce drinking water from the circumambient air. Furthermore, the nuclear facilities require a great deal of water to keep them cooled so that there is no danger of meltdown. Then there are the effects of global warming, that increase the evaporation from lakes, rivers, and reservoirs. All of these contribute to creating the worst water crisis in Iran’s history. More on this crisis, to which there is no simple answer, can be found here: “Iran’s water crisis at tipping point in threat to Islamic regime’s stability,” by Ohad Merlin, Jerusalem Post, March 30, 2025:
“Iran is drying up,” Dr. Sharona Mazalian Levi from The Alliance Center for Iranian Studies at Tel Aviv University affirmed, painting a grim picture of what she described as one of the most pressing environmental challenges facing the Islamic Republic today.
“Iran is facing an unprecedented water crisis that threatens the nation’s stability,” Mazalian Levi said. She explained that multiple factors have converged to create this critical situation, with several major provinces now reaching what she deemed “a tipping point.”
According to Mazalian Levi, the Iranian Energy Ministry declared last week that the provinces of Tehran, Isfahan, Razavi Khorasan, and Yazd are facing a severe water crisis. She highlighted the alarming state of the Karaj Dam, which supplies water to millions in Tehran and the surrounding areas.
The water crisis is almost everywhere in Iran, but at its worst in four of the country’s main provinces, including Tehran. The Karaj Dam on which people in Tehran, the capital, rely, is down to only 6% of capacity. And the water level is still decreasing.
“The Karaj Dam is now at only 6% of its capacity,” she noted, referencing reports from Tasnim news agency that 94% of the reservoir is empty. “This isn’t just an environmental issue; it’s a potential catalyst for civil unrest and disorder that could lead to national instability.”
This water crisis should be distinguished from those which brought Iranian protesters out in the past. In 2009, they were protesting the lack of political freedom. In 2022, demonstrators came out across Iran to protest the killing of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish Iranian girl, by the morality police who had picked her up for incorrectly wearing her hijab. The water crisis transcends those; it affects everyone in Iran, even supporters of the regime.
Two of the main catalysts for the crisis are what Mazalian Levi named “poor management of the water sector,” as well as a population growth of more than 250% in only 50 years. “This includes over-extraction from natural water sources and aquifers to the point of depletion,” she added.
It ordinarily takes thousands of years for large aquifers to accumulate water, and it will take the same amount of time to fully replenish them.. That makes it essentially a non-renewable resource that Iran, which has recently had almost no rain or snowmelt, has been using up at a dizzying pace. It would have been much better for Iran had it instead relied on husbanding the water it uses for irrigation, and even more important, much better if it had built still more, and more advanced, desalination plants along its shore with the Persian Gulf in the south and the Caspian Sea in the north.
However, Mazalian Levi traced the origins of the crisis further back in history. According to the researcher, following the 1979 revolution, Iran found itself internationally isolated and was forced to develop an autarkic economic system. Religious leaders, including then-supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini, encouraged citizens to embrace farming and agriculture as a way of life, drawing from texts regarding the Prophet Muhammad himself.
When Ayatollah Khomeini came to power in 1979, Iran became a pariah state. The regime decided it would rely as little as possible on the outside world, and Iranians who had left the land to flock to the cities for work under the Shah were now encouraged to return to rural areas to grow food for the country. This increase in the agricultural economy required more water to be used. However, the water-saving irrigation methods developed by the Israelis, such as drip irrigation, and the advanced desalination plants in whose construction Israel is a world leader, were not available due to the ayatollahs’ determination to have nothing to do with the “Zionist entity.”
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