Kabul: Water is one of the main wheels to develop Afghanistan’s economy and lift the country out of poverty.
Its free flow should be managed through proper water management system and approach which can be done by building a dam on the river Kabulgave information Khama Press,
Kabul River Rises in the Hindu Kush mountains and receives substantial flow from several rivers which is 700 km long, it flows in 460 km and 240 km inside Afghanistan Pakistan,
The river passes through Kabul and converges with the Logar River at Shina, the Panjshir River raises it at Sorobi, and then it joins the Alingar and Kunar rivers at Jalalabad. In Pakistan, it flows through the cities of Peshawar, Charsada and Nowshera which eventually joins the Sindh River in the Attock district of Punjab.
Afghanistan has abundant water resources. 80 percent of such resources come from surface waters that flow from ice fields and glaciers in the Hindu Kush and Himalayan mountains.
Khama Press reported that Afghanistan as an agro-economically oriented country can reach self-sufficiency in food security by managing and using these water resources, which flow freely to its neighboring countries.
Despite having sufficient water resources, Afghanistan is classified as a country at high risk in the Water Stress Index, which indicates that the country is unable to consume its annual water supply generated by rainfall, rivers and groundwater.
In fact, construction of dams along rivers is one of the sustainable approaches to water management in the country, Khama Press reported.
Years of internal conflicts in the country ruined Afghanistan’s opportunity to build a water management system in which about 12 billion cubic meters of the Kabul River flows freely into Pakistan each year.
Pakistan benefits more than Afghanistan from water flow; Pakistan has already built several barrages, irrigation canals and other infrastructure on its side of the Kabul River. warsak damo As Khama Press reports, a clear example is in the Peshawar Valley, 20 kilometers northwest of the city.
International tariffs start from 0.5 cents to $2 for each cubic meter of water, if we take $1 as the average price, Afghanistan’s water which is worth about $12 billion annually without receiving anything in return Irrigate the agricultural land of Pakistan.
On the other hand, four-fifths of Afghanistan’s population of 38 million depend on agriculture and horticulture. Recent droughts and climate change have severely damaged the region, with further reductions in recent decades reducing cultivated area from 10.8 million acres in 1978 to 4.6 million acres in 2002, Khama Press reported.
More importantly, about six million residents of Kabul and Jalalabad depend on the Kabul River for all their water needs. Indeed, such water can also be used to generate energy for hydroelectric plants.
Afghanistan is facing a severe power shortage, which imports 80 percent of its electricity from its neighbours.
The construction of barrages on the Kabul River has been linked to multiple domestication, storing water when rainfall is at its peak, suppressing floods, watering agriculture, and producing competitive and clean energy, Khama Press reported.
Positively, a significant reduction in surface waters, including the Kabul inflow, would seriously jeopardize Pakistan’s agriculture, which contributes more than a fifth of its GDP, and would serve the national interest of the Government of Pakistan. Against can be used as leverage pressure.
Its free flow should be managed through proper water management system and approach which can be done by building a dam on the river Kabulgave information Khama Press,
Kabul River Rises in the Hindu Kush mountains and receives substantial flow from several rivers which is 700 km long, it flows in 460 km and 240 km inside Afghanistan Pakistan,
The river passes through Kabul and converges with the Logar River at Shina, the Panjshir River raises it at Sorobi, and then it joins the Alingar and Kunar rivers at Jalalabad. In Pakistan, it flows through the cities of Peshawar, Charsada and Nowshera which eventually joins the Sindh River in the Attock district of Punjab.
Afghanistan has abundant water resources. 80 percent of such resources come from surface waters that flow from ice fields and glaciers in the Hindu Kush and Himalayan mountains.
Khama Press reported that Afghanistan as an agro-economically oriented country can reach self-sufficiency in food security by managing and using these water resources, which flow freely to its neighboring countries.
Despite having sufficient water resources, Afghanistan is classified as a country at high risk in the Water Stress Index, which indicates that the country is unable to consume its annual water supply generated by rainfall, rivers and groundwater.
In fact, construction of dams along rivers is one of the sustainable approaches to water management in the country, Khama Press reported.
Years of internal conflicts in the country ruined Afghanistan’s opportunity to build a water management system in which about 12 billion cubic meters of the Kabul River flows freely into Pakistan each year.
Pakistan benefits more than Afghanistan from water flow; Pakistan has already built several barrages, irrigation canals and other infrastructure on its side of the Kabul River. warsak damo As Khama Press reports, a clear example is in the Peshawar Valley, 20 kilometers northwest of the city.
International tariffs start from 0.5 cents to $2 for each cubic meter of water, if we take $1 as the average price, Afghanistan’s water which is worth about $12 billion annually without receiving anything in return Irrigate the agricultural land of Pakistan.
On the other hand, four-fifths of Afghanistan’s population of 38 million depend on agriculture and horticulture. Recent droughts and climate change have severely damaged the region, with further reductions in recent decades reducing cultivated area from 10.8 million acres in 1978 to 4.6 million acres in 2002, Khama Press reported.
More importantly, about six million residents of Kabul and Jalalabad depend on the Kabul River for all their water needs. Indeed, such water can also be used to generate energy for hydroelectric plants.
Afghanistan is facing a severe power shortage, which imports 80 percent of its electricity from its neighbours.
The construction of barrages on the Kabul River has been linked to multiple domestication, storing water when rainfall is at its peak, suppressing floods, watering agriculture, and producing competitive and clean energy, Khama Press reported.
Positively, a significant reduction in surface waters, including the Kabul inflow, would seriously jeopardize Pakistan’s agriculture, which contributes more than a fifth of its GDP, and would serve the national interest of the Government of Pakistan. Against can be used as leverage pressure.