In the last two decades, the issue of land subsidence has been raised from academic seminars and academic publications to the field of public media.
Etemad newspaper wrote:
In the last two decades, the issue of land subsidence has been raised from academic seminars and academic publications to the public media, and news of the results of researchers' studies in this field is published more or less from time to time.
Of course, it is estimated that about 10 to 15 percent of the total area of Iran is classified as an urban. This means that approximately between 16,000 square kilometers (10 percent) and 25,000 square kilometers (15 percent) of Iran's area are urbanized.
In Tehran, with a high rate of subsidence in certain areas due to excessive groundwater withdrawal, key critical facilities have been affected, including water supply systems, transportation infrastructure, roads and metro lines, and gas pipelines.
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