Climate change deprives 21 mln Afghans of access to clean water: official

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Climate change deprives 21 mln Afghans of access to clean water: official

STORY: Climate change deprives 21 mln Afghans of access to clean water: official SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 8, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 9, 2024 LENGTH: 0:01:19 LOCATION: Kabul CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Afghans fetching water in Kabul, Afghanistan STORYLINE: Climate change and frequent years of drought have deprived 21 million Afghans, almost half of Afghanistan's population, of access to potable water, Deputy Head of Afghanistan's National Environment Program Agency (NEPA) Abdul Salam Haqqani said. "Twenty-one million people, which is half of the population of the country, face a lack of water and do not have access to drinking water," local television channel TOLOnews quoted Haqqani on Wednesday as saying. Haqqani also noted that climate change has also destroyed 3 percent of the war-torn country's forests and decreased the rainfall by 37 percent. Afghanistan has been experiencing years of drought, which led to a recession of underground water including in the national capital Kabul, as major

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