# Will the city of Teheran be abandoned next week, due to drought? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 4, 2025, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-city-of-teheran-be-abandoned-next-week-due-to-drought/1022757 "2025-09-04T19:21:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 20
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-city-of-teheran-be-abandoned-next-week-due-to-drought/1022757/20 "2025-09-05T05:28:49Z")
> [@chappachula](#): > > Cape Town is not a city of international importance Ha ha ha. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > @MrDibble and/or @scudsucker could tell us more about how the Capetown “zero day” event played out and the aftermath thereof. We greatly reduced our already-low water usage, and explored other options like desalination and increased groundwater, and then the rains came. That’s about it. The aftermath is that even ordinary people are more aware of current water levels in dams and such, we’re very much now a culture of not unnecessarily flushing toilets, and water consumption has not risen to pre-crisis levels despite population increase. There were a couple of threads about it: > [@Cape Town water: impending crisis](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cape-town-water-impending-crisis/807004): > > After several years of drought, the tourist capital of South Africa is poised to [run out of water](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cape-town-drought-water-shortage-south-africa/) by late April. \*At the Voëlvlei Dam, water levels are critically low, sitting at less than 20 percent, reports CBS News’ Debora Patta. It’s one of Cape Town’s main sources of water – a source that it is on the brink of running completely dry within a matter of weeks.… Cape Town’s four million residents are now only allowed 23 gallons of water per person per day. Next month that goes down to 13 ga… > [@Is anyone paying attention to Cape Town?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-paying-attention-to-cape-town/808349): > > A city of 4 million is about to run out of water – like completely. Imagine if Phoenix or Houston ran of water. Imagine the insanity that would be ensuing. This is about to fucking happen, and it’s a warning to every city in every country from America to Australia. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-city-of-teheran-be-abandoned-next-week-due-to-drought/1022757)._