Episode 17: Dr. Alireza Bazargan (http://www.environ.ir) was born in Tehran in 1985, and moved to Canada with his family as a toddler. After spending his childhood and teenage years in North America, he moved back to Iran to study in the Chemical Engineering program of Sharif University of Technology, the most reputable technical university in the country. Dr. Bazargan is a faculty member at the Graduate Faculty of the Environment, University of Tehran, one of the Middle East’s oldest and most prestigious universities. In addition, he is a lecturer at the Department of Civil Engineering at K.N. Toosi University of Technology. His research and teaching interests cover areas of environmental and energy engineering in general.

This show's motto: "It's hard to be sustainable when you're hungry."

Don't forget that Living with Water Scarcity is available in Farsi, free to download here: http://www.kysq.org/lwws/

After our talk, Alireza sent a clarification and some links of interest:

"I did some additional research about where the word alcohol comes from, and although it is a middle eastern word, it seems that it may have come from al-kuhl rather than al-kohool as I mentioned. Here's a link that explains my confusion: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:alcohol

Here are some supporting links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27état

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/11/20/archives/iranians-who-seized-us-embassy-release-4-women-and-6-black-men.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALqOOoztZqw

https://www.sustainabilitymatters.net.au/content/water/article/environmental-protection-a-luxury-most-nations-cannot-afford-1270164355

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0928765513000894

https://voxeu.org/article/concern-environment-luxury-good-evidence-google-searches

https://www.newsweek.com/did-trump-break-law-us-leaves-iran-deal-violates-world-order-risks-war-916173

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/08/donald-trump-sanctions-iran-international-law

http://en.mfa.ir/index.aspx?fkeyid=&siteid=3&pageid=36409&newsview=514551