‘The end is close’: Will Kabul be the first big city without water until 2030? | Irrigate

Kabul, a city of more than six million people, warned a new report that will be the first modern city to run out of water in the next five years.

The level of groundwater in the Afghan capital fell sharply due to the impact of non-production and climate change.

Thus, will the Kabul’s water crisis and have the resources and experience to resolve the Afghan government?

The depth of the crisis

The level of Kabul’s water layer, 25-30 meters (82 – 98 meters) in the last decade, 44 million cubic meters (1.553 thousand meters) in April this year, the water with the removal of water with natural filling, he said.

If the existing trend continues, the Kabul’s water layers will be dry until 2030 and pose an existential threat to the Afghan capital for the report. This can cause the displacement of three million Afghan residents.

The report is already in the initial source of primitive water for the residents of UNICEF’s underground nasal wells, and the primary source of primitive water.

Also emphasizes widespread water pollution

Conflict, climate change and government failures

Experts point to the combination of factors behind the crisis: increased pressure on climate change, management failures and existing sources in 2001 less than in 2001 to about six million people since 2001.

In Afghanistan, two-year military intervention of the US military intervention also played a role in the crisis, because while driving in the rest of the country, he forced more people to migrate more people.

“The forecast is based on groundwater filling and an increase in annual water production with annual water production.

“This reflects the worst scenario that could make up to 2030, in the absence of an effective intervention,” he said.

Najibullah Sadid, a researcher of the network of Afghan water and environmental specialists, said it was impossible to put a schedule when the capital works dry. However, he admitted that the water problems of the Kabul were heavy.

“The last well is dry, but what we know, no one is to reduce the level of groundwater, so that no one is the power of deep water layer, and imagine the water exhausted water as a dish.”

“We know that the end is close,” he said.

The wide part of Afghan capital rely on underground borewels and falls in the water level, people dig in different places looking for deeper or water sources.

According to the National Statistics Directorate of August 2024, there are about 310,000 drilled wells across the country. According to a report of mercy, the Kabul is estimated to be a well-well well-wells that are not equal to 120,000.

2023 Delay About 49 percent of about 49 percent of the puffers in the Kabul operate on the effectiveness of only 60 percent others.

The water crisis said: “He exposed to divide between the rich and the poor of the city. “Advanced residents allow more deep gases to gain access to the poor.” “The crisis is first affected by the poor.”

The symptoms of this division are clearly in the longer lines outside the social water cranes or private water recipients, Abdulhadi Achakzai, Director of Environmental Protection and Development (EPTDO), Kabul Based Climate Protection NGOs are called.

Poor residents are often forced to search for children, water sources.

“Every evening, even night hours, looking home from work, young children with small boxes in their hands are looking for water … They look hopeless, navigate the life that collects water for their homes,” he said.

In addition, Sadid, Kabul’s overweight water reserves said that “more than 500 drinks and mineral water companies” in the capital “using the groundwater”. One year a billion a billion liters (256 million gallons), only one billion a billion liters (256 million gallons) extract alokozay – 2.5 million liters per liter of Sadid (660,000 gallons).

Al Jazeera sent alokozay questions about water production in June 21, but not yet received an answer.

Kabul, Sadid, 4 billion liters of 4 billion liters (more than 1,884 hectares) each year, more than 4 billion liters (1.05 billion gallons), 4 billion liters of hectares (more than 9,884 hectares), 4 billion liters (1.05 billion gallons) raised water. “The list (people who use kabul water) long,” he said.

‘Re-drought, early snowfall and snowfall was reduced’

Water shortage increases with climate change. In recent years, the country has seen significant reductions.

“Three Tea – Kabul River, Paghman River and Logar River – the Gabul, who filled the groundwater, the Hindu Mountains of Snow and Glacier Meltwater,” he said. “But between October 2023, 2024, Afghanistan only received only 45-60 percent of the average rain during the peak winter season compared to previous years.”

The former teacher of Kabul Polytechnic University Mayar, the crisis has the amount of the amount as a result of climate change, the fact that excessive air events added only to Kabul’s woes.

“Climate-related events such as recycling, early snowfall and reduced snowfall have clearly reduced the capacity to fill in groundwater,” he said.

In addition, the increasing air temperature, increasing the consumption of agricultural water, said Sadid, a network of Afghan water and environmental specialists, he said.

During a few years in a few years, there are a shortage of water in several years, especially in the agrarian communities, the cable remains the worst due to the growing population.

Decades of conflict

Sadid, the crisis of the crisis is deeper than the impact of climate change, the dependent on the country of war, weak management and assistance.

Most of the country’s focus focused on security for the first two decades of the century. Funding for the return of the Taliban to power in 2021, financing was used to resolve the humanitarian crisis. Western sanctions are also significantly remarkable in developing projects that can help you better manage the current water crisis in Kabul.

As a result, officials struggled to maintain main tasks such as de-sediment, including pipelines, channels and warehouses.

“The crisis is already outside the power of the existing de facto authorities,” said Miaar, referring to the Taliban. “In well-managed cities, such influences are reduced through strong water management and infrastructure. The capacity does not have so much power and existing organs cannot solve the problem without external support,” he said.

As a result, resistance projects in the environment were withdrawn.

“Several planned initiatives, including artificial groundwater filling projects, were suspended after the Taliban seized,” he said. “Sanctions continue to restrict organizations and donors from financing and implementing basic water projects in Afghanistan,” he said.

Sadid showed an example: Aochatura supply project – German Development Bank could send 44 billion liters (11 billion gallons of 11 billion gallons) to the parts of the Logar Suifers, along with KfW.

“But this project is currently suspended,” and in 2021, the former President Ashraf Ghani’s government has already completed two-thirds of the initiative.

Similarly, the Government of India and Ghani signed a contract for the construction of Shah-Toot Dam in the Kabul River in 2021. After completion, the warehouse can supply water to large parts of the kabul, Sadid, “but the fate is now uncertain.”

What to do to solve the water crisis?

Experts recommend the development of the city’s water infrastructure to solve the crisis.

“The development of artificial groundwater and the development of the main water infrastructure around the city is urgent. After these foundations are in place, a city water supply network can be gradually developed,” Migration is recommended.

Achakzai has accepted the basic elements of the building infrastructure and its operation.

“New pipelines in the city of Panjshir, for example

“The Afghan government must update elderly water pipes and systems. Modernization of infrastructure will increase efficiency and reduce the loss of water.”

Achakzai, all of Afghanistan’s global insulation and sanctions are more difficult.

“Sanctions limit the necessary resources, technology and financing, necessary for the development and operation of Afghanistan water infrastructure,” he said. This, in turn, reduces the productivity of agriculture and increases the hunger and economic difficulty, and the communities force the communities to migrate.