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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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[-] FundMECFSResearch 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Kabul gets about 50 cm of rain a year. That’s low, but well high enough to start to apply water harvesting to collect significant amounts of sustainable drinking water.

I guess the Soviet then US infrastructural inertia doesn’t help. And I’m dubious the Taliban are much use either. Really feel bad for the people of Afghanistan they got fucked over so much.

[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 12 points 12 hours ago

thank you united states

[-] dinren@discuss.online 6 points 14 hours ago
[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 37 points 14 hours ago

Avoidable climate change caused by economic activity whose gains were hoarded by a small number of rich people who do not live in Kabul

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 11 hours ago

Bechtel or some form of Halliburton iirc. They couldn't even manage to keep the water clean, either.

[-] bassomitron@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago

Certainly, but overpopulation in a small area that isn't able to support it is also true.

[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 13 points 13 hours ago

Good thing we've made it so easy for people to migrate /s

[-] dinren@discuss.online 2 points 12 hours ago

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

[-] dugmeup@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

Them not us right?

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

[-] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

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

[-] dinren@discuss.online 1 points 11 hours ago
[-] dugmeup@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

You are in Kabul, Afghanistan?

[-] dinren@discuss.online 1 points 11 hours ago

The world is overpopulated. There are also other problems.

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