Iran's decision-makers must shoulder the blame for its water crisis | Kaveh Madani

Invoking climate change as the sole cause of terrible shortages lets those in authority off the hookKaveh Madani is a former deputy vice-president of IranIran’s water bankruptcy has been in the news lately, prompting deadly protests in Khuzestan province that also garnered the attention of global media. But this kind of problem is neither new or unique in the country. Drying rivers, vanishing lakes, shrinking wetlands, declining groundwater levels, land subsidence, sinkholes, desertificati