Kabul Is Running Dry and Solutions Might Come Too Late
The New York Times ^ | August 13, 2025 | Elian Pettier
Posted on 08/13/2025 4:35:11 PM PDT by KingofZion
***Kabul is running dry, withered by scarcer rainfalls and snow melts and drained by unregulated wells. It has become so dry that its six million people could be without water by 2030 — and are now fighting about it.
Its water reserves are emptying nearly twice as quickly as they are getting replenished. The Taliban administration, short of cash, has so far been unable to bring water from nearby dams and rivers to the choking city.
*** Kabul, surrounded by snowy mountains and crossed by three rivers, had never been known as a dry city. But while its population has grown roughly sixfold over the past 25 years, no decent water management system has been put in place to bring water from other sources or to regulate underground extraction from greenhouses, factories and residential buildings that are mushrooming across the city.
Water supply is a critical issue across Afghanistan. At least 700,000 Afghans are displaced every year because of climate change, primarily droughts, according to the United Nations. One third of Afghanistan’s 42 million people don’t have access to clean drinking water.
“Kabul has been struggling with water issues for two decades, but it never was a priority,” said Najibullah Sadid, an expert on water resources. “Now the wells are drying up and it’s an emergency.”
Just a fifth of Kabul’s residents have access to piped water, according to a 2021 report from the U.S. Agency for International Development. But the plumbing is increasingly out of service, too. Even the national environmental agency relies on a tanker delivering more than 2,600 gallons a day, because its well has run dry and its pipes are out of service.
Kabul exists as if on an I.V. drip, with thousands of gallons of water supplied by hundreds of Chinese-made tricycles and Soviet-era trucks...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
TOPICS: China; Foreign Affairs; Government; Iran; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; ccp; china; drought; elianpettier; iran; islamofascism; islamofascists; kabul; koranimals; najibullahsadid; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes
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taliban problem solved!
1 posted on 08/13/2025 4:35:11 PM PDT by KingofZion
To: KingofZion
Too bad they don’t have an Uncle Sam to fund their water construction projects???
2 posted on 08/13/2025 4:41:27 PM PDT by RedMonqey (Trump, the once and future president!)
To: KingofZion
How long until G W MORON starts blubbering about importing another 700,000 Afghan “interpreters” and their families because of ‘climate change’?
3 posted on 08/13/2025 4:43:09 PM PDT by imabadboy99
To: KingofZion
Put a bunch of stone age thugs in charge of a country, who would have guessed it would end up like California.
4 posted on 08/13/2025 4:46:07 PM PDT by PAR35
To: KingofZion
Indeed. Divine retribution.
5 posted on 08/13/2025 4:46:35 PM PDT by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
To: KingofZion
“All cultures are equal” ALERT!
6 posted on 08/13/2025 4:46:54 PM PDT by pingman ("Step right up! Get your free helicopter ride, courtesy of Pinochet Air!")
To: KingofZion
Not my circus, not my monkeys.
7 posted on 08/13/2025 4:47:35 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: KingofZion
Also water crisis in Iran. Government says Israel and America stealing rainclouds. They used that story in 2018 too.
8 posted on 08/13/2025 4:48:52 PM PDT by jjotto ("...saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau...")
To: imabadboy99
But....but....they’re all translators, don’cha know.
9 posted on 08/13/2025 4:48:57 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: KingofZion
“My uncle saw a sign that said Drink Canada Dry. So he went up north and did his best.”
10 posted on 08/13/2025 4:49:57 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The list of things I no longer care about is long. And it's getting longer.)
To: KingofZion
Afghanistan wanted to live in the fourteenth century…. Or at least a lot of Afghans did… so let them.
11 posted on 08/13/2025 4:50:48 PM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.? )
To: Rummyfan
Should have just let the Russians have it.
12 posted on 08/13/2025 4:51:06 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: KingofZion
WGAF….
13 posted on 08/13/2025 4:51:17 PM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.? )
To: KingofZion
14 posted on 08/13/2025 4:52:19 PM PDT by Overtaxed
To: KingofZion
NOT A SINGLE NEW IMMIGRANT (LEGAL OR ILLEGAL) SHOULD BE PERMITTED HERE FROM THAT S**THOLE.
15 posted on 08/13/2025 4:54:43 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
To: KingofZion
“It has become so dry that its six million people could be without water by 2030”
unless it rains before then ...
16 posted on 08/13/2025 4:55:04 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
To: KingofZion
Send them all that unsold Bud Light. It might be a little skunky, but those ragheads won't know the difference.
17 posted on 08/13/2025 4:55:34 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
To: KingofZion
https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/iran-weather-manipulation-claims
...In the interview, broadcast yesterday, via the YouTube channel “Khate Energy,” Arbabian stated: “Israel and the United States, who claim to have the capability [to cause a drought], and who have been hostile to us, have been doing this gradually for the past 40 years.”
He added, “I say this with confidence, because you can see in satellite images how the clouds shift from their course. I don’t care how many people say that this is normal. I say it is not.”
Arbabian pointed to specific examples, such as clouds from the Mediterranean being redirected toward Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia, resulting in Iran’s Lake Urmia drying up while Turkey’s Lake Van remains full...
18 posted on 08/13/2025 4:56:08 PM PDT by jjotto ("...saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau...")
To: KingofZion
Maybe Mr. Beast can make a video about building wells there
19 posted on 08/13/2025 5:06:04 PM PDT by struggle
To: KingofZion
I can hear a Sam Kinison joke in there somewhere.
20 posted on 08/13/2025 5:09:35 PM PDT by rottndog (What comes after America?)
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