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Water as oil for Iran’s future


Newspapers have dubbed it the "water crisis". Antonio Gramsci, in his Prison Notebooks in 1930, wrote that “the crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born: in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear".

Newspapers have dubbed it the “water crisis”. Antonio Gramsci, in his Prison Notebooks in 1930, wrote that “the crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born: in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear”.

 

Iran’s Energy Minister, Hamid Chitchian, announced a plan to divert water resources to urban centers and to reorganize agricultural and industrial supplies. “The issue of water is not merely a technical one. There are many social, economic and environmental aspects to it that altogether affect the lives of the citizens,” he admitted. Furthermore, deputy Energy Minister, Sattar Mahmoudi, told Iranian media of a research project focusing on looking for underground resources, as deep as 2000 meters, which would also involve Russia’s help.

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