Qosh Tepa canal project in Afghanistan marks milestone in water management • FRANCE 24 English
afghanistan is rapidly constructing a giant canal to help irrigate more than 500,000 hectares of its arid northern regions to do so it plans to redirect between 20 and 30% of the flow of the Armudaria River long in the pipeline and initiated under the ousted government the nearly 250 km long Kosh Tippa canal has become a flagship project of the Taliban government there are no foreign engineers involved here the design was done by Afghans the implementation is being carried out by Afghans and this is a national level project for all of Afghanistan there’s no other project in the country with this level of capacity farming communities in Afghanistan’s northern province hope the project will alleviate the area’s severe water shortages water scarcity ruins everything it destroys farming the trees are drying up and there’s no planting anymore personally had a few almond trees all of them dried up because of a lack of water besides Afghanistan the Amuaria flows through Tajjikhstan Usbekiststan and Turkmanistan these countries depend on the river to fuel their hydroelectric power plants and irrigate agricultural lands and they worry that Afghanistan’s canal will create compounding water shortage issues in the region afghanistan is not part of international agreements governing water use due to the Taliban not being recognized by any international organizations
Afghanistan is building a 285-kilometre waterway at an accelerated pace to irrigate its drought-ridden northern regions. Central Asian states maintain that decisions regarding transboundary water use should be made collectively. Matthew-Mary Caruchet has more.
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27 comments
Just cease reproducing people!
USA is gone. There are no more terrorists. 🤔
Interesting…
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Great. I hope that works.
took too long to get noticed. better late than never
Inshallah it works ….
The US kicked out.
Its time to work for Afghanistan.
Seeing people manually cleaning wheat with solar panels behind it is a curious image
Do they have engineers in Afghanistan?
first time i see f24 sharing a good thing about Afghanistan
Drug prices will finally go down, thanks to the Taliban)))
Maybe some1 should have told Gadaffi to wait woth the construction of critical infrastructure after the inevitable US bombing
The Aral sea will never come back again
If it was made by Afghans then it should be based on ancient knowledge, and expected to last ancient levels of timescale
Remember when we tried regime change against the Taliban? Trillions spent. Thousands of U.S. soldiers lost. The Taliban is still there. It didn't work 😂
Without the USA everywhere is prosperity, peace and other possibilities.
Well there goes what’s left of the Aral Sea
Brave and honest. Carry on Afghanistan. Show the world you can survive without the USA and western hypocrite countries.
Something good coming up for Afghanistan as long they are talking about good deeds in the country that means soon Taliban will be recognised as government of Afghanistan do it no one wants to harm the Afghanistan people by their own people who lead the country.
wind energy plants were invented in Afghanistan
Hold up did F24 just drop some positive Taliban and Afghanistan news? Did I blink and miss world peace? 😄✌️📺
what afghanistan needs is to reforest the deserts in order to increase precipitation and create more rain. They should cooperate with china where they are building a green barrier around gobi desert.
Too much people in central asia too little water
Good to see Afghanistan making progress without American and British interference
Mashallah long live Afghanistan
Diverting 20-30% of this vital river to farm in the desert sounds like something the Soviets would have done…see Aral Sea.
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