The country has been out of the spotlight since US forces left but environmental disasters and the threat of another food crisis should be front-page news
‘Flash floods in Afghanistan were triggered weeks ago by a relentless spate of untimely rains and melting glaciers.’‘Flash floods in Afghanistan were triggered weeks ago by a relentless spate of untimely rains and melting glaciers.’Last modified on Mon 25 Jul 2022 19.17 BSTAfghanistan
The main attention Afghanistan gets these days is when big international aid agencies put together posters of hungry women and children for donations, or when a calamity like theBut as you are reading these lines, many towns and villages in the war-ravaged country remain submerged by flash floods triggered weeks ago by a relentless spate of untimely rains and melting glaciers, claiming lives and destroying livelihoods of marginalised communities already surviving on small amounts of foreign aid.
The glaciers in the Himalayas are melting at an unmatched pace, bringing the deadly floods from the mountains of the northern provinces all the way down to the plains in the south. Thesewho rely heavily on the natural streams and rivers. Despite this, there has been no development work on water preservation, storage and distribution over the past couple of decades on a national level. The underground levels are dropping at an alarming rate as it is the only way for locals to look for water.
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