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Iran’s Water Crisis is an Underappreciated Global Hot Spot Iran’s rapid groundwater depletion and inexorable slide toward a serious water and food security crisis is an issue of regional—and arguably, global—importance. 1 Iran’s current water stress is partly a product of hydrology and climate. But perhaps most of all, it stems from decades of sanctions and compounding political mismanagement that is likely to make it very difficult to alleviate the emerging crisis before it wreaks lasting damage upon the country. Water shortages often exacerbate exi

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