{"id":18057,"date":"2026-07-20T17:15:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/20\/mazar-i-sharif-municipality-road-watering-heatwave\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T17:15:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:15:29","slug":"mazar-i-sharif-municipality-road-watering-heatwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/20\/mazar-i-sharif-municipality-road-watering-heatwave\/","title":{"rendered":"Mazar-i-Sharif Municipality Begins Road Watering to Combat Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mazar-i-Sharif municipality has announced the commencement of watering streets and public routes in the city following a rise in temperatures. The initiative aims to reduce dust and lower the heat on road surfaces.<\/p>\n<p>According to information from the municipality, urban streets will be watered every other day. This program covers public routes and heavily trafficked areas of the city.<\/p>\n<p>Municipal officials stated that this process will continue until the end of the severe heatwave, with watering carried out in different parts of the city according to needs and a predetermined schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of Balkh province, experiences a significant increase in temperature and dust during the summer each year, affecting the daily lives of its residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mazar-i-Sharif municipality starts watering roads every other day to reduce dust and heat during the severe summer heatwave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18057","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=18057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}