{"id":31087,"date":"2026-10-22T05:11:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T05:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=31087"},"modified":"2026-10-22T05:11:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T05:11:45","slug":"icrc-improves-access-to-safe-drinking-water-for-38500-people-in-herat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2026\/10\/icrc-improves-access-to-safe-drinking-water-for-38500-people-in-herat\/","title":{"rendered":"ICRC improves access to safe drinking water for 38,500 people in Herat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) covering Afghanistan has announced that it has installed or repaired 275 hand pumps in Gulran district of Herat province.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a post on X on Thursday (Oct. 22), the ICRC said the installation and repair of these pumps had improved access to clean and safe drinking water for 38,500 people.<\/p>\n<p>The agency added that water shortages had forced many people to rely on unsafe water from irrigation canals, ditches, and pools left over from winter, exposing them to waterborne diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Access to safe drinking water remains a major challenge in Afghanistan due to poor water supply systems and limited water resources.<\/p>\n<p>International organizations and Afghan authorities are working to improve water supplies and expand access to clean drinking water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) covering Afghanistan has announced that it has installed or repaired 275 hand pumps in Gulran district of Herat province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":31088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,9,984,6],"tags":[180,624,1681],"class_list":["post-31087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-soceity","category-news","category-afghanistan","tag-herat","tag-icrc","tag-safe-drinking-water"],"views":12,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31087","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=31087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31089,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31087\/revisions\/31089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}