{"id":78713,"date":"2018-07-18T09:21:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T09:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/kabul-herat-to-face-serious-water-shortages\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:51:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:51:56","slug":"kabul-herat-to-face-serious-water-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/kabul-herat-to-face-serious-water-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"Kabul, Herat to face serious water shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/July\/18\/Kabul 3.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>HERAT (SW) &ndash; The experts and officials have warned Kabul and Herat cities would run out of drinking water in few years&rsquo; time if the rampant extraction of the under-ground water continued.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Hameedullah Yalani, head of the urban water supply and canalization, expressed these views at a conference of regional heads of water supply. He said the government is trying to streamline water supply system with the help of Germany to avoid the disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Eng. Ratib Hamim, head of water supply in Herat, told the conference the level and quality of under-ground are deteriorating rapidly. He, however, stressed plans are in place to improve the situation.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Naseer Ahmad Fazli, head of environment protection agency, said deep under-ground digging for water is one of the main factors contributing to falling levels of water.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as experts warn the capital Kabul and Herat cities would face serious challenges of water in the coming ten years.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HERAT (SW) \u2013 The experts and officials have warned Kabul and Herat cities would run out of drinking water in few years\u2019 time if the rampant extraction of the under-ground water continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-78713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}