Afghanistan/Pakistan: With Kabul River Flows Controversy

Feb 10, 2019 | Zofeen T. Ebrahim, The News on Sunday
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With tremendous hydropower potential in the upper reaches of the Kabul River Basin and agricultural potential further down, Asadullah Meelad, a lawyer at Afghanistan’s ministry of public works, agreed that options for “joint management of the water resources” can well be explored. There are 270 lake and river-basins that are shared by 145 nations serving 40 percent of the world’s population where not just the water but any resource related to water is shared between two or more nations.