Kabul, a city of over six million people, could become the first modern city to run out of water in the next five years, a new report has warned.

Groundwater levels in the Afghan capital have dropped drastically due to over-extraction and the effects of climate change, according to a report published by nonprofit Mercy Corps.

  • cygnus@lemmy.ca
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    28 天前

    Oh, you feel the white man’s burden because the brown people are too simple to govern themselves? They need your guiding hand to help them along the road to civilisation?

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      27 天前

      You’re deranged. Kabul govern’s themselves. But if someone needs help and someone else can help them. That someone else should help. Get your racist ass bullshit out of here.