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“Affluent people often use mineral and purified water sealed in bottles, while ordinary and poor residents have no choice but to live on almost contaminated water coming through underground pipelines from water tanks with poor management.
Likewise, other national infrastructure like water supply systems has also been badly damaged due to more than three decades of war and civil strife in Afghanistan.
In most of the villages, there is no water supply through pipelines and residents especially women have to travel hundreds of meters and even miles daily with pitchers on their heads to fetch drinking water which in many cases is not hygienic.
Continued drought and protracted war added to the environmental problems in the war-ravaged central Asian state.
Air pollution has also been contributing to contaminating underground water sources in Afghanistan.
The head of Afghan Environment Directorate Mustafa Zahir has warned that 68 percent of Kabul’s underground water is contaminated.”
Read more: Xinhuanet
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