{"id":19129,"date":"2026-08-06T06:15:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T06:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/06\/khulm-samangan-shortage-safe-drinking-water\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T06:15:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T06:15:32","slug":"khulm-samangan-shortage-safe-drinking-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/06\/khulm-samangan-shortage-safe-drinking-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents of Khulm, Samangan Face Severe Shortage of Safe Drinking Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Khulm district in Samangan province report that the shortage of safe drinking water has become a serious challenge in the area. According to them, the water available in many parts is salty and unsuitable for drinking.<\/p>\n<p>Locals emphasize that they are forced to travel long distances on foot to obtain usable water. They add that this situation creates greater difficulties especially for women, children, and the elderly.<\/p>\n<p>According to residents, the lack of consistent access to safe water not only disrupts daily life but also raises concerns about health problems. They urge officials to take practical measures to address this issue.<\/p>\n<p>Khulm district is one of the districts in Samangan province in northern Afghanistan, where parts of the area face a shortage of basic infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Khulm, Samangan face a critical shortage of safe drinking water, forcing long walks and raising health concerns, especially for women and children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19129","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\/19129","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=19129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}