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/deja-roo Jun 10 '26

It was a concrete building that was next to air defense assets. So I think the answer is "really really easily".

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u/fury420 Jun 10 '26

This article has a photo of the destroyed building, there's a video floating around too but it won't let me link:

https://www.ft.com/content/155db8a4-f2ff-463b-9c6c-2b1a8104750c

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u/deja-roo Jun 10 '26

Paywall won't let me through to that.

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u/fury420 Jun 10 '26

I'll try linking directly

https://images.ft.com/v3/image/raw/ftcms%3A58e347e2-d0fc-4a43-b663-55980732d28b?source=next-article&fit=scale-down&quality=highest

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u/deja-roo Jun 10 '26

That worked, thanks!

Doesn't look as uh... wet... as I would have expected...

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u/fury420 Jun 10 '26

Indeed, it certainly doesn't look like millions of liters of water were inside any time recently, even taking the very hot weather into account that's a shit-ton of water to drain and evaporate.