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Dear Wikipedians,
As part of a university project, I intend to make a substantial edit to this page. I will add a 'Background section,' providing information about the 2018 freshwater shortages in Iran, previous water protests, and the larger series of 2018 protests in Iran. I found this information in academic journals and newspaper articles. I also intend to provide further information about the events described in the 'timeline,' as I found a lot of information about these and other water-related protests from March until October 2018. I found the information primarily through newspaper articles, both local and international.
Furthermore, I am currently working on adding a section on 'Government Response' and 'Aftermath.'
In my Sandbox, you can find a draft of my contribution. I will gradually add my contributions up until 9 May, 2023.
Please let me know if you have any concerns regarding my intended edits, or if you have suggestions on what should or should not be included in my contribution.
Best, Pandrleiden ( talk) 11:08, 3 May 2023 (UTC)Maarten Pandrleiden ( talk) 12:17, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
This topic is intended for discussion about the inclusion of other potential water protests in this entry.
Another water-related protest may have taken place in January 2018 in Qahderijan. According to Reuters: "One of the dead was a farmer, CHRI said, and locals said water rights were the main grievance. (...) A journalist in Qahderijan who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the issue said the attack on the police station was not the right thing to do but that water mismanagement had deprived farmers of their livelihoods." This is the link to the article. To me, it is unclear whether during the protests concerns were voiced over water shortages. If water shortages are a deeper cause of the protest, I don't believe the event should be included. Other sources also do not report any relation to water during the protests in Qahderijan. Pandrleiden ( talk) 11:09, 3 May 2023 (UTC) Pandrleiden ( talk) 19:18, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
I have added a sub-section on previous water protests. These were the ones I could find, but I can imagine more have taken place, so feel free to add more events to this section. Pandrleiden ( talk) 11:10, 3 May 2023 (UTC)M. Pandrleiden ( talk) 16:37, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
I am not aware of any more international reactions, but I can imagine other NGO's or states have reacted to the water protests. Feel free to include those if you find them. Pandrleiden ( talk) 13:05, 4 May 2023 (UTC)