As summer temperatures soar, supplying electricity has become an intractable problem for countries like Iraq and Iran, where people sweat and stew.
pushed temperatures in parts of the Middle East past 122 degrees, Iran ordered a two-day shutdown of schools, banks and public institutions, which helped relieve the burden on the nation’s faltering power grid.
Last week, Egypt told public employees to work from home one day a week until September. The government has rationed electricity since July,The Egyptian government has rationed power amid the summer’s extreme heat. Above, electricity pylons along a highway outside Cairo.and blistering summer days become routine, the task of supplying electricity is becoming an increasingly intractable problem across the Middle East.
A recent study in the journal Lancet Planet Health looking four decades into the future found that for every 100,000 people in the region, 123 will suffer“People are hiding inside their homes from the heat,” said Saleh Ubaidi, a Baghdad-based chef who recently shut down his restaurant for the season because people were not venturing outside.
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