{"id":29809,"date":"2026-05-11T10:16:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=29809"},"modified":"2026-05-12T07:24:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:24:27","slug":"un-habitat-many-people-lack-access-to-safe-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2026\/05\/un-habitat-many-people-lack-access-to-safe-water\/","title":{"rendered":"UN-Habitat: Many people lack access to safe water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) in Afghanistan says that many people in the country do not have access to safe water and sanitation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The organization wrote on X today (Monday, May 11) that residents of informal settlements in Afghanistan face greater challenges in accessing water.<\/p>\n<p>According to UN-Habitat, water is essential for health and life, and efforts to improve access to clean water must be increased.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the European Union\u2019s humanitarian aid office said that more than 21 million people in Afghanistan have limited access to safe drinking water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) in Afghanistan says that many people in the country do not have access to safe water and sanitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":29810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,9,984,218,6],"tags":[12,707,1870,1871,1872],"class_list":["post-29809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-soceity","category-news","category-health","category-afghanistan","tag-afghanistan","tag-water","tag-un-habitat","tag-habitat","tag-safe-water"],"views":24,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29809","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29811,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29809\/revisions\/29811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}