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Drought May Test Central Asia’s New Cooperative Approach
March 4th, 2026
Via The Diplomat, a look at whether the new ties that bind Central Asian countries strong enough to weather drought? Every year, rain and snow that falls in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan provides water for millions within their borders. Winter snow in the mountains melts in spring to fill hydropower reservoirs. Summer rain waters crops. But […]
Read more »Dry Iran Explores Buying Afghan Water
December 9th, 2025
As Iran faces a looming Day Zero scenario in its capital Tehran, where reservoirs are virtually empty, some officials are exploring options to purchase water from Afghanistan, as Radio Free Europe reports.
Read more »Taliban Regime’s Damming of Transboundary Rivers
December 8th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a report on Afghanistan’s growing need to build dams for its water and power needs, and Pakistan’s opposition to dam building on the Kunar River and its tributaries is due to political rather than technical reasons: Afghanistan suffers from severe water and electricity shortages. This is partly because its geographic location and […]
Read more »Turkmenistan’s Drought Dries Reservoirs
November 26th, 2025
Two reservoirs in western Turkmenistan have fully dried up, according to satellite analysis published by Meteozhurnal, a specialist meteorological outlet. Mammetköl and Delili, small reservoirs in Balkan province fed by the low-water Atrak river, shrank steadily over the past year and had no remaining water by early summer. Meteozhurnal based its findings on time-series imagery […]
Read more »Kabul Braces For A Waterless Future
November 20th, 2025
Via The Week, a report on how a confluence of manmade and environmental factors makes the Afghan city the first modern capital to risk running out of groundwater: For the past half-century, the city of Kabul has endured more than its fair share of hardship and tragedy. As Afghanistan’s capital works to move past its […]
Read more »Afghanistan’s Qosh Tepa Canal and the Paradox of Central Asian Water Politics
September 11th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a report on Afghanistan’s Qosh Tepa Canal which – for Afghanistan – is a symbol of sovereignty and hope. For its neighbors, it is a looming ecological and economic crisis. As climate change accelerates and water resources in Central Asia continue to shrink, the construction of the massive Qosh Tepa Canal in […]
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