Water levels within the aquifers in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, have declined by up to thirty meters in the past ten years, while almost half of the city's boreholes have dried out, with water extraction presently more than the natural recharge rate at 44m cubic meters a year, eighty percent of the city's groundwater unsafe.
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Thirsty Cities: the Looming Water Crisis
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Water levels within the aquifers in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, have declined by up to thirty meters in the past ten years, while almost half of the city's boreholes have dried out, with water extraction presently more than the natural recharge rate at 44m cubic meters a year, eighty percent of the city's groundwater unsafe.