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A woman and a boy walk on the dried up riverbed of the Zayandeh Roud river that no longer runs under the 400-year-old Si-o-seh Pol bridge, named for its 33 arches, in Isfahan, Iran

Iran’s ‘system is essentially water bankrupt,’ says environmental expert

July 23, 2021Climate Change

Kaveh Madani, a senior fellow at Yale University and former deputy head of Iran’s Department of Environment, joins The World’s host Marco Werman to discuss some of the reasons behind Iran’s latest water shortages.

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