KABUL, July 4 (Xinhua) -- Afghan authorities officially inaugurated a major water supply network in south Afghanistan's Kandahar province on Thursday, a local official reported Friday.

Afghanistan is building a 285-kilometre waterway at an accelerated pace to irrigate its drought-ridden northern regions.

Any effort by Afghanistan to improve water management could ruffle neighbors, who benefit from the country's losing two-thirds of its water due to lack of infrastructure.

Afghanistan’s lifeline of water is the Helmand River, constituting over 40% of the country’s surface water. The river crosses into Iran here, and while the water dispute isn’t new, ...

Iran and Afghanistan are going head to head over control of the supply of a crucial resource that’s shrinking by the day: water.. Violence along the border between the two tumultuous countries ...

In mid-May, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi issued a warning to the Taliban: honor Afghanistan's water-supply agreement or face the consequences. A well-known Taliban figure offered a mocking gift ...

Afghanistan’s initiative for construction multi-purpose water projects on the tributaries of Kabul River with a total water storage capacity of 4.7 million acre feet (MAF), 25 per cent more than ...

The UN warns of a water crisis in Afghanistan. Millions of people face an uncertain future, as record droughts take their toll. Trump’s Cabinet: Here’s Who He’s Picked For White House Roles ...

June 14, 2023: Satellite photos show that the 2022 IEA ban on poppy production reduced it by nearly 90 percent. Opium needs poppy plants as a raw material. Opium can be further refined into heroin.

KABUL, Afghanistan - Structural engineers with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers went back to basics to design water towers to be built in Afghanistan, a country where construction methods remain ...

That’s what members of the Afghanistan National Water Polo Team are learning in their quixotic quest to come to the United States to train and prepare for their unlikely bid to compete in the ...

Afghanistan’s initiative for construction multi-purpose water projects on the tributaries of Kabul River with a total water storage capacity of 4.7 million acre feet (MAF), 25 per cent more than ...