{"id":160212,"date":"2025-11-17T18:24:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/?p=160212"},"modified":"2025-11-17T18:24:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:54:18","slug":"ancient-kuhrang-spring-falls-silent-after-millennia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/?p=160212","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Kuhrang Spring Falls Silent After Millennia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kuhrang Spring, located in the Zardkuh Mountains of Bakhtiari, once the most abundant spring in Iran and the source of the Karun, Zayandeh-Rud, and Dez rivers, has stopped flowing after thousands of years of sustaining life.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A video recently shared on social media showed the spring completely dry, a report later confirmed by the Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Department of Environment, which verified the total desiccation of the Kuhrang Spring.<\/p>\n

Situated in the Zagros highlands within Kuhrang County, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, the spring had long served as the main source of the Karun River, delivering billions of cubic meters of water annually from the Bakhtiari mountains to surrounding plains and downstream dams.<\/p>\n

Although the region covers only one percent of Iran\u2019s total area, it once supplied around 11 percent of the nation\u2019s freshwater, providing essential water to the provinces of Isfahan, Yazd, parts of Kerman, and Khuzestan.<\/p>\n

Why the Kuhrang Spring Has Run Dry<\/p>\n

A report by Fars News Agency, titled \u201cThe Tunnels That Wounded the Kuhrang Spring,\u201d points to human activities as the main cause of the spring\u2019s drying:<\/p>\n

“Over the past decade, senior environmental experts have repeatedly warned that uncontrolled dam construction and unauthorized water transfer tunnels have reduced groundwater recharge, gradually lowering spring flows and ultimately causing them to dry up.”<\/p>\n

Professor Parviz Kardavani told IRNA: \u201cTunnel-based water transfers do not save the destination; they permanently destroy the source.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mohammad Darvish, speaking to Tasnim, added: \u201cClimate change in the Zagros Mountains is artificial; we have created it ourselves through unrestrained dam construction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Local councils in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari told ISNA: \u201cPeople are not against water transfer itself, but they oppose tunnel-based methods and excessive extraction. We call for halting tunnel projects until proper environmental studies are completed.\u201d<\/p>\n

The drying of the Kuhrang Spring is expected to have irreversible consequences for the ecosystem, including vegetation and wildlife diversity, and for local communities. It may lead to agricultural collapse, desertification, and forced migration from areas that once depended on this life-giving water source.<\/p>\n

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The Kuhrang Spring, located in the Zardkuh Mountains of Bakhtiari, once the most abundant spring in Iran and the source of the Karun, Zayandeh-Rud, and Dez rivers, has stopped flowing after thousands of years of sustaining life. A video recently shared on social media showed the spring completely dry, a report later confirmed by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":160213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1337],"class_list":["post-160212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zoroastrians","tag-kuhrang-spring-falls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/160213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}