“From the early 1970s, groundwater withdrawal increased and farmers and other users turned heavily to underground resources,” Hossein Zafari said in remarks published by ISNA. “Gradually, with this extraction and worsening droughts, land…

“From the early 1970s, groundwater withdrawal increased and farmers and other users turned heavily to underground resources,” Hossein Zafari said in remarks published by ISNA. “Gradually, with this extraction and worsening droughts, land…