Kabul at risk of becoming first modern city to run out of water, report warns
Kabul at risk of becoming first modern city to run out of water, report warns
NGO says Afghan capital’s 7 million people face existential crisis that world needs urgently to address
NGO says Afghan capital’s 7 million people face existential crisis that world needs urgently to address
The Mercy Corps report can be found here: Kabul’s Water Crisis - An Inflection Point for Action
This is insane. This is how lost civilisations became lost. It has begun and we are distracted by petty fights and pointless wars.
Indeed and we allow.oirsekves to be distracted.. As it ever was, for example
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
Juvenal originally used it to decry the "selfishness" of common people and their neglect of wider concerns. The phrase implies a population's erosion or ignorance of civic duty as a priority
Some private companies are capitalising on the crisis by actively digging new wells and extracting large amounts of public groundwater, then selling it back to city’s residents at inflated prices.
Dozens of little Nestles.
Bechtels. And it happened and was solved, before. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochabamba_Water_War