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Water levels within Kabul’s aquifers have dropped by up to 30 metres over the past decade owing to rapid urbanisation and climate breakdown, according to a report by the NGO Mercy Corps.

Meanwhile, almost half of the city’s boreholes – the primary source of drinking water for Kabul residents – have dried out. Water extraction currently exceeds the natural recharge rate by 44m cubic metres each year.

If these trends continue, all of Kabul’s aquifers will run dry as early as 2030, posing an existential threat to the city’s seven million inhabitants.

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[-] dinren@discuss.online 2 points 1 day ago

They wouldn’t need to migrate if they would live within the ecosystem instead of bleeding it dry

[-] dugmeup@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Them not us right?

Can't you see it's not me. It's not my family?

[-] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

🎶 In your head, in your head, they are fighting 🎶

[-] dinren@discuss.online 1 points 23 hours ago
[-] dugmeup@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

You are in Kabul, Afghanistan?

[-] dinren@discuss.online 1 points 23 hours ago

The world is overpopulated. There are also other problems.

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