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Kabul could be first modern city to run out of water by 2030: Why that matters and how it can be avoided
The Afghan capital, home to nearly six million people, may see its aquifers run dry by 2030 if urgent action is not taken.
This City Could Be First Asian Capital To Run Out Of Water By 2030
Afghanistan's bustling capital Kabul is at risk of becoming the first modern city to run out of water within the next five ...
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Kabul to become first big city without water by 2030, amid conflict, climate change and government failure
Kabul could become the first modern city to run out of water in the next five years, with groundwater level dropping significantly due to over-extraction and the effects of climate change. According ...
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Will Kabul be the world’s first city to run out of water?
Kabul’s water woes are further fuelled by climate change, as rains have reduced in recent years across Afghanistan. “The three rivers — Kabul river, Paghman river and Logar river—that replenish ...
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This City Is Likely To Become World’s First Capital To Run Out Of ...
Rivers that refill Kabul’s groundwater depend on snow and glacier melt from the Hindu Kush mountains. But from October 2023 to January 2024, Afghanistan received only 45 to 60 percent of its usual ...
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A photographer gives an inside look at the fall of Kabul | National ...
Photographer Kiana Hayeri has lived in Kabul for the past seven years. For National Geographic, she chronicled the changes across Afghanistan as a generation born under relative freedom faces a ...