To combat a severe water crisis, Iranian authorities have begun cloud-seeding operations to induce rainfall, Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported on Saturday, amid the driest fall in half a century.
Iran’s National Weather Forecasting Center of the Meteorological Organizations said Saturday that rainfall across the country has decreased by about 89% compared to the long-term average, making this the driest Autumn Iran has experienced in the past 50 years.
The cloud-seeding operation was carried out “by aircraft equipped with cloud seeding equipment” in the Lake Urmia basin in the northwest of the country, IRNA said.
It’s a process used in Iran for years, in which…
