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Rising Costs of Water: Dire Consequences For Afghans In Battle With Iranians
October 16th, 2015
Via The Guardian, a report on a village on the Afghan-Iran border which is caught up in a deadly, regional struggle for the most precious resource: Where the Hari Rud river bends north to form a natural border between Iran andAfghanistan, a patch of thick forest allows Iranian border police to remain unseen as they observe the […]
Read more »Iran: Beset by Water Woes From Wetlands to Afghan Border
March 11th, 2015
Via Bloomberg, a look at the western Afghan – eastern Iran water crisis: Aziz Sabouri was 10 when he started herding cattle along the shores of the Hamoun Lakes by the Afghan border in Iran’s southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan province. Now 80, his face craggy with deep lines, Sabouri stands in the middle of a vast tract […]
Read more »Why An Afghan Dam May Set Back Peace
August 7th, 2013
Via the Christian Science Monitor, an article on a $200 million Afghan dam project will divert water from Iran: The water that grows western Afghanistan’s fresh produce, sprinkles its town parks with shade-giving trees, and slakes the thirst of war-weary Afghans, is becoming a point of tension with nearby Iran as a large dam under […]
Read more »IMU, Taliban Threaten Turkmen, Uzbek Water Resource
May 18th, 2013
Via Central Asia Online, an interesting report on Central Asian water tension: Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) militants are menacing an Afghan water resource valuable to Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, the Faryab Province police chief told Deutsche Welle (DW) in an interview published May 9. The militants in late April attacked three districts in Faryab Province, […]
Read more »Central Asian Countries Assess Impacts Of Rogun Hydropower Project
February 18th, 2013
Via OOSKA News, a report on some new impact assessment studies for Tajikistan’s proposed Rogun Hydropower Project: Experts from throughout Central Asia gathered in Almaty, Kazakhstan last week to discuss the findings of impact assessment studies for Tajikistan’s proposed Rogun Hydropower Project. The studies on the Rogun project are being conducted under the auspices and […]
Read more »Sharing Central Asia’s Waters: The Case Of Afghanistan
January 20th, 2013
Via the International Water Law Project, a look at Afghanistan’s regional water issues: Afghanistan has four major river basins. All are international watercourses as that term is defined in the 1997 UN Convention on the Law of Non-navigable Uses of International Watercourses. When looking at the waters in Afghanistan the regional history cannot be ignored […]
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