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Zaranj faces water scarcity despite $21m supply network

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ZARANJ (Pajhwok): Residents of this capital city of southwestern Nimroz province say a $21.5 million water supply network has failed because 35 percent of the city inhabitants still lack access to clean drinking water.

They say former president Hamid Karzai ordered the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) in 2012 to execute Qala-i-Fath Water Supply Network project in Chahar Burjak district of Nimroz after people faced acute shortage of water there.

Despite spending millions of dollars on this project, still every third family in Zaranj city still do not have access . . .

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