Comedy News Network on Water Crisis in Afghanistan

For the first time in modern history a capital city is on the verge of running dry (CNN 2025-07-19)

Population growth, the climate crisis, and relentless over-extraction have depleted groundwater levels, experts say, and nearly half the city’s boreholes have already gone dry.

Less than 5 minutes of searching for "Dams in Afghanistan" turns up this:

Water Management Policy in Afghanistan After the Fall of the Afghan Government (tearline.mil)

The root cause of the water crisis in Afghanistan is unique in that it is not a shortage of water resources. Afghanistan is rich in water, with a total of 75 billion cubic meters available. This abundance of water resources also supports neighboring countries. Instead, the intensity of Afghanistan’s droughts are primarily a result of inadequate hydrological infrastructure, decades of infrastructure damage during war and political instability, and institutional failures in water management practices.

There is no evidence that "climate change" has any effect on Kabul's water supplies. Extracting more groundwater than is replenished is definitely a contributing factor, and the population has grown dramatically—nearly 10 times by some estimates—between 2004 and 2024 putting intense pressure on limited infrastructure, but neither of those "caused" Kabul's water crisis. They have abundant natural resources that can supply more than enough water, but they mismanage it. Mismanagement is the primary cause of their water crisis.

Look at Israel as an example of a well-run country that anticipated population growth and depleting water resources and solved it by various methods like pioneering technological advances in hydroponics and drip irrigation to drastically reduce water used in irrigation, and on the supply side, built desalination plants to extract water from the sea. Unlike Afghanistan, they have limited water supplies and natural resources, but because they are a free, representative republic, they don't restrict or limit their human capital and the ability and incentive of their population to innovate, so they are prosperous.

This is kind of misreporting is what happens when your staff's minds are so infested with leftist drivel that there is little room for rational thought, healthy skepticism, or even something as simple as 5 minutes of fact-checking.