Videographer Fired After Nazanin’s Tears Over Clean Water Became News
A year after a video about the water shortage crisis in Sistan and Baluchestan aired, the region’s problems remain unsolved, but the producer of the video has been fired from his workplace on allegations of painting a dark picture.
Saeid Gholamhosseini, a photographer and journalist, told Iran’s Channel 2 television: After preparing a visual report on the water shortage problems in Sistan and Baluchestan province and the widespread broadcast of a video showing a young girl named Nazanin crying over the lack of clean drinking water, he was placed on forced leave for a period and was subsequently completely dismissed from his media workplace.
This comes as the ISNA news agency announced on Monday that 150 residents of Noshahr city were poisoned due to consuming contaminated water and were hospitalized.
According to the report, the director of Noshahr’s health and treatment network said: “70 percent of hospital visitors are under 14 years old, and 35 of the poisoned individuals have been hospitalized due to acute physical conditions.”
Noshahr city is located in Mazandaran Province on the coast of the Caspian Sea and has a rainy climate.
Last year, the head of Iran’s Ministry of Power’s Water Supply Jihad Center said: “Currently, more than eight million people of the rural population are facing water stress.”
According to the Ministry of Power’s information portal, the widespread water crisis has affected 13,000 villages with over 20 households and 15,000 villages with fewer than 20 households.
Source: Voice of America
