Rainfall has been at record lows, causing\u00a0reservoirs to be nearly empty<\/strong>, in an already arid Middle East climate. The situation has grown so acute that President Masoud Pezeshkian has warned that if the drought persists for another month,\u00a0Tehran\u2019s water would have to be rationed<\/strong>. But this appears to be happening currently, as no rain is expected for at least the next ten days.<\/p>\n Already Iranians are being urged to conserve water and only use what\u2019s available for the most pressing needs.\u00a0Pezeshkian has actually said something stunning and unprecedented on Monday, though some are describing it as obvious hyperbole:<\/p>\n \u201cIf rationing doesn\u2019t work,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Pezeshkian said,\u00a0\u201cwe may have to evacuate Tehran<\/strong>.\u201c<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The alarming statement resulted in an avalanche of criticism in Iranian media, also with former Tehran mayor Gholamhossein Karbaschi dismissing the idea as \u201ca joke\u201d and saying that\u00a0\u201cevacuating Tehran makes no sense at all\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Some regional analysts and officials report an over 90% decrease in rainfall compared with last year. The NY Times summarizes of how dire the\u00a0situation is<\/a>:<\/p>\n Iran\u2019s officials have begun rationing water in the capital, Tehran, amid a drought so severe that the president has warned the capital may need to be evacuated.<\/em><\/p>\n The country is facing the\u00a0worst drought\u00a0in six decades<\/strong>, and major dams are at critically low levels. Water authorities this week said the\u00a0main dams feeding<\/a>\u00a0Tehran, on which\u00a0more than 10 million people depend<\/strong>, were at\u00a05 percent capacity<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n On Sunday, the spokesman for Iran\u2019s water industry, Isa Bozorgzadeh, told reporters that\u00a0water pressure would be lowered from midnight until the morning<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cso that we can both reduce urban leakage and create an opportunity for city reservoirs to refill.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n People have in some cases taken to TikTok and other social media to show that faucets in their homes have stopped producing water for hours at a time.<\/p>\n Iranian officials are mulling extreme measures and outside-the-box\u00a0approaches<\/a>:<\/p>\n This fall, the Ministry of Energy\u00a0announced the practice<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0\u201ccloud seeding,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>a weather modification technique that involves dispersing particles like silver iodide into existing clouds to encourage rainfall. However, for it to work, clouds need to contain at least 50 percent moisture, which experts say is not currently the case in Iran.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/watercrisis.jpg?itok=mSXZk4GA\")