{"id":27838,"date":"2025-03-22T11:59:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T11:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=27838"},"modified":"2025-03-22T11:59:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T11:59:41","slug":"red-cross-reports-33-million-afghans-facing-critical-water-shortage-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2025\/03\/red-cross-reports-33-million-afghans-facing-critical-water-shortage-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Cross reports 33 million Afghans facing critical water shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; At least 33 million Afghans are facing a severe water shortage, warned the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) branch in Afghanistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the occasion of World Water Day, the ICRC reported on Saturday that 80% of Afghanistan\u2019s population lacks access to sufficient drinking water.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The committee added that this situation has made it impossible for Afghan citizens to obtain water for drinking, cooking, agriculture, and other essential life needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the same time, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has warned that climate change is threatening Afghanistan\u2019s glaciers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The FAO wrote on X that Afghanistan\u2019s agricultural lands and food supply depend on its natural glaciers, and preserving them should be a key part of efforts to combat climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the other hand, the United Nations has also noted that, globally, 2.2 billion people face difficulties in accessing clean water.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">World Water Day, celebrated on March 22 since 1992, was designated by the United Nations to focus on freshwater resources and their sustainable management.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><strong><em>ENDS<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 33 million Afghans are facing a severe water shortage, warned the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) branch in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":27835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,9,984,30,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-soceity","category-news","category-environment","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":63,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27839,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27838\/revisions\/27839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}