‘Serious problem’: Afghan capital losing race against water shortages.
Kabul faces a looming water crisis, driven by unruly and rapid urbanisation, mismanagement over years of conflict, and climate change, meaning people like Bibi Jan are sometimes forced to choose between food and water.
Experts have long sounded the alarm over Kabul’s water problems, which are worsening even as many international players have backed off big infrastructure projects and slashed funding to Afghanistan since the Taliban government took power in 2021.
“There could be no ground water in Kabul by 2030” without urgent action, the UN children’s agency UNICEF warned last year.
