Tehran, Iran – Every morning at AT, Sara reaches her phone – not to check the message, but to see when the day’s blackout starts.
The 44 -year -old digital marketer in Tehran has remembered the weekly electricity schedule, but still checks her phone every morning for changes in the last minute while planning her life around a two -hour energy cut.
“Without electricity, there is no air conditioning to make heat tolerant,” Sara said, “Iran’s convergence crisis-shortage of electricity, electricity shortage and record temperature-breaking temperature.
Water service cuts are undeclared. They do not report the last hours at a time and really to be Sara, so before the taps get dry, it scrams to fill the bucket when it is possible.
Crisis
Have brought this summer for millions of Iranians Survival challenges in the light of sales heatAccording to the statistics of Iran’s Meteorological Organization.
The country is at the same time with the fifth consecutive year of drought, severe energy deficiency and unprecedented heat, a perfect storm that exposes the fragility of basic services.
The Meteorological Organization has said that the rainfall has dropped by 40 percent in the current water year.
Until July 28, Iran received only 137 mm (5.4 inch) rainfall compared to 228.2 mm (9 inches) on average.
Electricity deficiency is rooted in infrastructure limits and fuel supply challenges, which has led to rapid demand for production capacity.
In the October report of the Parliament’s Research Center, Iran’s PERCent 85 per cent of the electricity is from fossil fuels, 2 per cent from water and renewable and nuclear energy.
Iran has a huge gas and oil reserves, while the transmission network and power plants have many decades of approval and low investment means that the system cannot stay in use.
By adding problems with this capacity, some power stations are sometimes forced to use Mazhut (heavy fuel oil) instead of natural gas due to disruption of fuel supply, but officers try to prevent it due to air pollution problems.
When the summer drought reaches the pinnacle of air conditioning, the hydroelectric generation increases the crisis by reducing the crisis, millions of Iranian people plan their lives outside of blackouts and unpredictable water homes.
Survivel
A year ago, 15 km west of the capital. (miles miles) The city, which is in the west, went to Tehran in Tehran.
She rented her first apartment, an exciting milestone that became a daily exercise in the management of crisis.
The first undeclared water cut of Fatmeh was seen in an apartment rising at temperatures up to 40 ° C (104 ° C).
She remembers: “The first thing is to stop moving completely so that my body temperature should not rise,” she remembers.
Since only two bottles of drinking water and a block of ice were available, she used valuable ice to cool her foot, but she carefully supplied her.
Challenges to use showering and bathrooms became challenges, she says, how she ordered expensive bottled water online and just used two bottles for shower.
Now, after several months of unpredictable state of the month, Fatemeh is the routine of living: storing water in multiple containers, when cutting, pouring into a cooler in its evaporation and throwing ice block during extreme heat.
When both the water and the electricity go, she says that “feels heated” and she soaks towels to press her body to relax her body.
The balcony does not escape. The outside air inside the house is hot at night.
Rhinoceros
Infrastructure crisis increases more than domestic inconveniences and the economy is at risk of bread because offices and retail shops are forced to close for hours or days.
Frequent shutdowns and financial tweaks caused by this can affect families dependent on this job.
Small businesses face specific challenges.
After the refrigerators failed, pastry shop owners have thrown their own bad cakes.
The remote work encouraged as a solution was impossible, when homes do not have both electricity and internet connectivity.
Shahram, the manager of the 38 -year -old software company, says that he sometimes has to be sent to his employees home.
They say, “Power cuts are usually found between 3 and between.” This crop matches the work hours,… (therefore) if the power cut happens at 2, 3 or 4, then I usually send everyone home because there is no meaning. When the time returns, it is the end of their working day. “
Experts are inadequate investment in insufficient investment, failure to accept new newcomers – both are affected by international approval – and unsafe use.
Mohammad Arshadi, a member of the Tadbir-e-Abi Iran Think Tank strategic conference and a member of the Tadbir-e-Abe Iran Think Tank, Mohammad Arshadi, stating that the use of methods for Iran’s water crisis requires basic changes.
Natural scarcity has increased due to climate change, but they say how water is being used in Iran, the main reason behind the current problem.
He says that due to the growth of water-centric agriculture, large industries and urban spread, the increase in demand for water has been encouraged to increase the growth growth.
Uncertainty
Back to her apartment, Sarah keeps checking her phone every morning, and her schedule adjusts to millions of Iranians who have learned to navigate this new reality.
For the sake of tornado, mental adjustment is as challenging as practical conversion. Every morning, the new uncertainty brings a new uncertainty to whether the water can flow through her taps, which will give her laptop power.
In a country where citizens once adopted infrastructure, a generation is learning to live in scarcity.
While Iran is going in the second winter with non -resolved water and energy shortage, the experiences of millions of people like essence, fatmeh, Shahram and them, suggest that the country’s infrastructure crisis has become a feature of modern Iranian life.
This story was published in collaboration with @Egab??
