This city is on track to run out of water by 2030. For many residents, that day is already here

Shazia knows what life will be like in a major city that’s run out of water because she’s already living that reality — and it’s unbearable.

The 34-year-old lives in the Khair Khana neighborhood of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul with her three children and her husband, who ekes out a living as a street vendor. They have no running water and can’t afford to buy it from the water tankers that often outnumber cars on the city streets. Every day she and her kids must walk to a local mosque and wait in hour-long lines to fill buckets from a hand pump, before heading back with their heavy loads. Her back aches and she hates having to drag her kids out after school, “but we have no choice,” she said. Read More..