Sistan and Baluchestan Facing Water Crisis
Less than a month into the current year, Sistan and Baluchestan Province is facing a water crisis.
Sistan and Baluchestan Province has been dealing with various crises and lack of facilities for a long time. From children’s education to unemployment, lack of electricity, gas, water, and many other basic amenities that are the rights of every citizen in a country, the province has been deprived.
The absence of adequate living facilities was not enough; suppression, detention, killings, and other acts by the authorities have been added following protests, placing the people of Baluchestan in further distress. Now, just three weeks into the new year, the province is facing a severe water shortage crisis. 70 percent of Khash district is without water, and the remaining 30 percent have non-potable water.
Habibullah Dehmareh, the elected representative of the people in the Islamic Consultative Assembly, has also warned about the water crisis in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, announcing that a humanitarian disaster is unfolding in the province.
According to ISNA news agency, Habibullah Dehmareh said in yesterday’s open session: “Our sworn enemies have closed the Kamalkhane Dam and cut off water from the people. If urgent and immediate preventive measures are not taken as soon as possible, we will be forced to gather together to address it.”
Dehmareh also announced that apparently there is no budget to prevent the crisis, but when the crisis occurs, everyone mobilizes, though by that time it is too late.
The Islamic Republic regime and its agents mourn and lament for the armies of 1,400 years ago, when Umar ibn Sa’d closed the Euphrates River to them and left them without water, yet they begrudge the Iranian people suffering from water shortages even the smallest measure of assistance. Not only is the water shortage problem present in Sistan and Baluchestan, but other problems including fuel, electricity, internet, and many other amenities have also been denied to them. The people of Baluchestan have always been oppressed and continue to lack justice.
The water shortage problem in this province will have severe consequences. One of the consequences will be the displacement of this province’s borders toward Qom and Semnan. With all these injustices that the Islamic Republic regime commits against its people, what answer will it have for history?
