Tehran, Iran, has run out of water

[Warpy]

25. Subsience was becoming a big problem there even before the water crisis

There was a decent story on it at Al Jazeera (one reason I watch them occasionally, their reporting in the region is great as long as you don't expect puff pieces on Israel). In fact, I have to wonder if some of the expolosions heard around the city in the last coule of years might be the destruction of structurally unsound buildings damaged by severe cracking and sinking.

The current problem is drought. They thought they had time to move things more slowly, maybe making Tehran an administrative center, only, while moving most of the population elsehwere but the failure of the rains to fill their reservoir has made things there a much faster moving crisis.

This would be horrific enough, but throw in a war and a government of religious ninnies who picked the wrong allies and it's just epically bad.