{"id":11142,"date":"2026-04-22T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/22\/afghanistan-840000-access-safe-drinking-water-2025-un\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T08:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:00:26","slug":"afghanistan-840000-access-safe-drinking-water-2025-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/22\/afghanistan-840000-access-safe-drinking-water-2025-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 840,000 People in Afghanistan Gain Access to Safe Drinking Water in 2025, UN Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations has announced that during 2025, a total of 840,826 individuals in Afghanistan gained access to safe and potable drinking water with the support of the UN agency.<\/p>\n<p>This figure, published in the UN&#8217;s 2025 outcome report, highlights that access to basic water supply services remains one of the fundamental needs in many regions of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Access to safe water is considered a key indicator of human development, and its absence can lead to serious health consequences, especially for children and low-income families.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan has faced extensive economic and climatic challenges in recent years, and international organizations have repeatedly stressed the importance of sustainable investment in water and public services sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2025, over 840,000 people in Afghanistan gained access to safe drinking water with UN support amid ongoing economic and climatic challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}