For the first time in modern history the capital is near the strength of stiffness

As the sun rises on the Kabul mountains, the daily struggle for water to find water – and to make it go – starting.

The sound of Rahele tanks flows at Afghan Capital and urges a 42-year-old mother to rush on the road to fill the buckets of her family and jerrals. Family availability is always low, he, and every liter is expensive, stretching folks and their budget budgets.

“We have no access to (drinking) water at all,” Rahele, one name, told Cnn. “The shortage of water is a major problem affecting our daily life.”

Kabul gets into a disaster-looking disaster. Soon it can be the primary capital of today in the world to work altogether according to Mern Corps, an unemployed organization that warns disaster.

The growth of human nature, climate hardship, and chronic financial release has been reduced by low levels of land, experts say, and about half the city already dry.

Rahel’s family must pay for all water for all water, and they give careful use of them, donating food and other important things to drink and bathe.

“We are very worried,” he said. “We hope to get extra rain, but when things get worse, I don’t know how to survive,” told CNN.

It is an emergency “Not only a water problem,” warns Marianna Von Zahn, the director of Afghanistan ‘programs. “Health disaster, economic crisis, and the emergency of all of us.”

A Powerful combination

Thirty years ago, Kabul’s population was less than 2 million, but the Decveration of Taliban in 2001 led to finding immigrants, bound by the promise of additional safety and possible economic aspects.

As its people grow, so does the need for water.

Kabul depends on the excess water, filled with ice and glacier and the glacier in the nearby Hindu Mountains. But years of misconduct and excessiveness has caused those standards to discard 30 feet in the last 10 years, according to the Riner Corps.

Kabul removes 44 million feet[44 million m]in the ground each year than repeating returns, said Cormers Corps, increasingly dramatic inequalities dragged city reserves and its residents.

Some families, such as Ahmad Yasin’s, deeper sources, seeking plenty of water to fill their buckets.

Yasin, 28, lives in a joint family in the north of the city. Until months, color and brother hours every day in the nearest Mosque, which has access to a large source, to bring the packed buckets home, parents, nephew.

He said: “That was restored to our work and touched our salary,” he said. So they saved six months, sacrificing food, to come with 40,000 Afghanis ($ 550) to dig the source behind their house.

Yasin and his brother grabbed 120 feet before they found water – and despite the water that is free to use all their basic needs, they can’t drink it. “It is not safe,” he said.

“Since we spent all our money at the well, we cannot use the water filter or clean water. Therefore, we boil water well during time, allow you to cool and drink.”

Until 80% of Cycled Kabul Land, Mercy Corps, the result of the effect of wild waste and industrial waste.

Diarrhea and Cleaning “People’s Problems Found all the time in the city,” said Hemed, who lives with his wife, three children and two elderly northwest of Taimanani.

“We are ill because of the dirty water can be drinking in someone else’s house, at a restaurant, or by brushing our teeth with healthy water,” says the good in health.

This problem is further integrated with Kabul’s risk in climate change.

“We find extra rain, but a little snow and small,” said Najibullah sadid, a Water Resource Researcher and the Afghan Porty Professional Network. “That affects a small-fashionative city of flash flood control … snow helps us, but now we have little, and that harms us in terms of low water restoration.

If current styles are underway, UNICEF predicts Kabul outside under the underground water in 2030.

When the water runs dry, many turn to tanks

Those outside the majority of the largest meters of water meters in the field of independent companies or should depend on donations.

Curriam Khan Taraki spends 30% of his income in the water, especially to buy from licensing tank plans.

But in families that can spend more, the only way to travel long distances in mosque, they can give water.

Dawn sees, an employee, combines hours at a nearby fountain to fill two buckets in his family. During the day, two children – 13 years and nineteen years old – arrange to fill it, sometimes to skip school to carry heavy buckets on a hot hill.

District decreases in the future of children, saying Von Zahn, MeseSe Corps. “Hours to use by children at school, now spend water from their families.” He said.

“The danger strategies also deepen the poverty cycle and the danger of women and children.”

Women adorn the problem – they were forced to leave for hours to go to Kabul just to find that they were small water, or their safety under Taliban, or male caretin.

“It is not easy for the woman to leave, especially under these conditions that women need to have a husband’s company to get out,” who did not want to express his name for safety reasons, told CNN.

“There is many difficulties to all women or girl to get out of the solitary confusion.

CNN has contacted Taliban for the answer.

A Bad Future

In addition to weather weather, human nature and misconduct, Cabuli’s water difficulties are included in the deepest political chaos.

Taliban is held to control the country on August 2021 following the riots of US-LED troops after two years of war, which softened the wealth of the economy as the development of development and security services.

Since then, human assistance – Emergency services intended for non-profit organizations and regulatory governance of government – fills a particular gap. But the US resolution Donald Trump’s past this year to put an external aid after the country with disabled results.

Freeze in the International Development agency of International Development (USAID) “One of the biggest impacts,” Von Zahn from Marche Corps. At the beginning of 2025, about $ 2 million of $ 264 million are needed for water and sanitation.

“So what we see is a dangerous mix: crossing local systems, frozen sales, and a growing district – everything while Afghans are facing a daily problem,” he said.

That leaves the future of many who live in Kabul in Libo.

Over the years, when Rahela and his family moved to their current neighborhood, the rent was cheap, Mosque had water and the life were under control.

Now, she doesn’t know how long they can survive in the city.

“We will not have another election but also been expelled,” he said, “Where are we going to go here? Don’t know.

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