Iran's water emergency worsens amid heat and outages ^{CEFR A1}

Difficult words

• severe — very strong or extreme, especially weather or conditions
• outage — a time when a service stops working

  outages
• authority — a person or group that makes rules

  Authorities
• nationwide — in or across the whole country
• shortage — not enough of something needed

  shortages
• rationing — controlled sharing of a limited resource
• wetland — land with water, like marshes and swamps

  wetlands

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