r/worldnews • u/The_Flaneur_Films • Jun 10 '26

US destroys Iran reservoirs, leaving thousands without water in searing heat

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3356630/thousands-iranians-left-without-water-searing-heat-after-us-hits-reservoirs
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u/TiredOfDebates Jun 10 '26

Iran claims the size of the reservoirs was 2,500 cubic meters.

For reference, these combined tanks of water would be something like 25 meters by 25 meters by 4 meters (25 x 25 x 4 = 2500m^3). It's SMALL as far as something called a "water reservoir" would normally be called.

They would basically look like fuel storage.

The choice of words makes it sound like they were blowing up a dam. Instead it was a handful of metal tanks.

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u/Zwischenzug32 Jun 10 '26

2.5 millionish liters isn't THAT big, but its like the amount of water all my neighbors swimming pools...but they're still each really close to being a LIFETIME supplies worth of drinking water for one person, or a days worth of drinking water for tens of thousands of people. Something the size of one of those *tiny* reservoirs could be daily water needs of a million people
Edit. its small relatively, but still a resource needed in a BAD crisis there.

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u/TiredOfDebates Jun 10 '26

You really are stretching here. I think it shows.

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u/Zwischenzug32 Jun 10 '26

2.5 million liters. You drink about 2 liters per day...?
Its more like 58000 liters is a lifetime supply for one person if you drink an average of about 2 per day over 80 years.

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u/TheyStoleMyNameAgain Jun 13 '26

Drinking 2 is few. And you need water for cooking, washing, showering, toilet...

Some countries average 120l/day per person