{"id":14327,"date":"2026-06-03T06:45:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T06:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/06\/03\/kabul-water-shortage-drinking-water-supply-projects\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T06:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T06:45:21","slug":"kabul-water-shortage-drinking-water-supply-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/06\/03\/kabul-water-shortage-drinking-water-supply-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Kabul Residents Struggle with Drinking Water Shortages Amid Ongoing Supply Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Kabul report that a shortage of drinking water has seriously disrupted their daily lives. According to them, they are forced to wait for hours in lines to obtain water, turning this situation into a persistent challenge in several areas of the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that some families are compelled to meet their needs through mobile water tankers. Residents state that this method has increased living costs and placed additional economic pressure on families.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the state-owned Urban Water Supply and Sewerage Company has announced that water transfer projects from the Panjshir, Shahtoot, and Shah Orouz dams are underway. The company says the aim of these projects is to reduce water shortages and improve residents&#8217; access to drinking water in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Kabul has faced water scarcity in recent years due to population growth and declining groundwater resources, and residents expect the implementation of these projects to proceed with greater speed and transparency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kabul residents face serious drinking water shortages, relying on costly water tankers as officials work on key water transfer projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-secondary-headline","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14327","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=14327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}