Storage dwindles in Mashhad, home to 4 million people, as country struggles with drought Storage dwindles in Mashhad, home to 4 million people, as country struggles with drought Water levels at the dam reservoirs supplying Iran’s north-eastern city of Mashhad have plunged below 3%, according to reports, as the country suffers from severe water shortages. “The water storage in Mashhad’s dams has now fallen to less than 3%,” Hossein Esmaeilian, the chief executive of the water company in Iran’s