RASC: Kandaharians complain about the lack of safe drinking water and the reduction of water in underground water sources, and they face hundreds of daily problems to provide the water they need.
Gul Afghan, a citizen of Kandahar, says: “I have not had water for one and a half years. Every time the water runs out in our house, I have to get the water I need from neighbors and distant areas with a hundred problems and headaches.”
He also adds: “We have a government water tap in our house, which does not have any regular water. Sometimes water comes once every ten days and it is not enough for us; “I can’t afford to dig a deep well in my yard because it takes a lot of money and I don’t have it.”
Rahim Wahid, another resident of Kandahar, said in an interview with RASC: “We are really tired of the lack of water. Every time we run out of water at home, water is supplied with many problems.
Sometimes we do not manage to get enough water for one or two days. “Our economic situation is not good enough to buy water. There is a 1500 rupees Kabuli/Afghani water tanker. We want the authorities to supply us with drinking water.”
On the other hand, in the last few years, the drought and lack of rainfall have severely reduced the natural water sources in Kandahar and neighboring provinces, and the water in the wells has dropped 20-25 meters below its normal level.
The citizens of Kandahar consider the digging of deep wells and the irregular and sustainable use of underground water resources by farmers and landowners to be one of the reasons for the subsidence of underground water, and they demand water management by the officials of this sector.
At the same time, most of the districts of Kandahar do not have government water taps, and the water supply department under the rule of the Taliban group also did not have a regular plan for managing water resources.
According to some experts, if the authorities do not stop the digging of deep wells, many people will face the problem of water shortage in the next few years.
