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Kabul at risk of becoming first modern city to run out of water, report warns

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Guardian, 7 June 2025

The British daily’s report about Mercy Corps “Kabul Water Crisis” report (see our Recommended Reads) links to 2018 AAN research (“Blue Gold: The quest for household water in Kabul city”) by Reza Kazemi when reporting:

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.