
Establishes policies to encourage and guide water resource use, distribution, conservation and recharge. We've given it a separate category because it is a crucial factor in the Middle East and deserves emphasis.

A new trend:
Geen burials in which "A crane lowers a 400-pound memorial
reef ball containing cremated remains into place 30 feet below to the bottom of the [sea]"
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The BBC reports the
world's major rivers are drying up.
On their
world map of future water stress, we see that most of Iran is facing "extreme stress", and the rest is either "high stress" or unknown.
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It's been raining in Shiraz! Is it enough to turn Shiraz into a lush paradise? To stave off drought and destruction?
You may ask "
How much rain has fallen?", but the more important question is: "What happens to the rain
after it falls?"
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