Iran’s officials have begun rationing water in the capital, Tehran, amid a drought so severe that the president has warned the capital may need to be evacuated.

The country is facing the worst drought in six decades, and major dams are at critically low levels. Water authorities last week said the main dams feeding Tehran, on which more than 10 million people depend, were at 5% capacity.

On Sunday, the spokesperson for Iran’s water industry, Isa Bozorgzadeh, told reporters that water pressure would be lowered from midnight until the morning “so that we can both reduce urban leakage and create an opportunity for city reservoirs to refill.”

After a dry summer with soaring temperatures — and widespread power cuts — the country has experienced extremely low rainfall this autumn. Tehran has

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