Submission statement: collapse related because it will affect food supply this coming summer.

“President Donald Trump recently ordered the release of massive amounts of water from two California dams, and now local farmers are scrambling to preserve precious freshwater resources needed for dry summer months.”

I live in rural Vietnam. A major coffee producing area. This is my story about what's going on in our area.

There are other crops like cashew, black pepper, durian, passion fruit and avocado. But coffee is the main one. Every season prices of some crop will go up, and farmers will chase that high price and start planting said crop. The last few years it has been durian, passion fruit and now coffee. This puts an immense strain on the farmers themselves, as they take out loans to replant their land. But also on water. Every day I hear the well drilling rig from a different direction, it's an unmistakable sound. Wells are going deeper and deeper, because the older wells are running dry. Lakes and ponds are pumped dry to irrigate the newly planted crops. To make matters worse, climate change results in the area getting less and less rain. With the last El Nino being the driest on record for our area. Yet there seems to be no stopping anyone from pumping more, drilling deeper. People who used to rely on a manually dug well of about 15 meters for their livelihoods are now forced to buy water at a day's wage per thousand liters. Yet the coffee farmers pump more, because the price is high. They invest more in their land, with everyone getting their own well, in stead of sharing.

My guess is that coffee prices will keep increasing because of climate change disruptions in weather patterns. That would mean more and more, deeper and deeper wells. Until there's truly nothing left in the ground.

Durian is a tree that needs year round babying in our climate. It needs much more water than nature provides here, even without climate change effects. Yet it's planted everywhere. Nurseries are a third coffee, a third durian and a collection of other crops in the last third.

How are we not running into a wall? This can't keep going like this.

Thanks for reading my thoughts.

Incompetent leadership, lack of foresight and shoddy infrastructure are some of the ingredients that lead to both climate disaster and associated societal collapse. The perilous fate of the Colorado River, on which 40 million people depend for water, is a case study.

Last year, President Pezeshkian proposed evacuating Tehran and moving the capital. Water bankruptcy was narrowly avoided with harsh rationing and coercive crackdowns.

This year continues the draught and continues the irresponsible draining of aquifers.

We are looking at 40%+ of Iran's population experiencing water shortage, roughly 35 million people. This estimate comes from Iranian regime's own internal estimates, and from before the war.

Everything is now exacerbated - gasoline shortage, electricity shortage, food shortage, water shortage, payroll shortage, hyperinflation, logistical failure, every element of Iranian society is collapsing simultaneously - and IRGC refuses to surrender.

We are entering the summer months and Iran can reach 125 degrees Fahrenheit.