How Afghanistan Is Building Asia's Largest Artificial River Canal In The Desert - Afghanistan Oasis

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First mega-project: Kosh tepa Canal

Afghanistan, the Taliban is overseeing its first major infrastructure project, the Qosh Tepa canal, designed to divert 20 percent of the water from the Amu Darya River across the parched plains of northern Afghanistan. This is a 285 kilometres long 152 meters wide and 8.5 meters deep artificial river that extends from the Amu Daria River.

The Amu Darya River, which forms Afghanistan's border with Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan, originates in the Hindu Kush and Wakhan regions of Afghanistan and stretches for 2,540 kilometres before reaching the Aral Sea. About 6,000 workers are now operating excavators and heavy-duty trucks around the clock, working to carve a ditch 152 meters wide, wider than the California Aqueduct.

The canal project was initially conceived in the 1970s under the first Afghan president, Mohammed Daoud Khan, and construction finally began in 2021 under the last, Ashraf Ghani. When the Taliban seized power in August 2021, it inherited the project and swiftly approved about $100 million for its construction, amounting to about a quarter of Afghanistan’s yearly tax income.

This project is fully designed and fully funded by Afghans with no foreign support. To save costs, the canal bed has not been sealed with cement, and along some stretches, briny groundwater has already seeped into the canal, tainting freshwater meant for irrigation. overseas Afghan
experts say the country could face challenges not only in building the mega-canal but also in operating it. why are they building it?
According to Taliban officials, once the canal is completed, provisionally, two years from now, it could irrigate 550,000 hectares of desert, effectively increasing Afghanistan’s arable land by a third and even making the country self-sufficient in food production for the first time since the
1980s.

But for the internationally isolated Taliban, the canal represents a crucial test of its ability to govern. Approximately half of the canal has been completed and the rest is being built at a rather Fast Pace due to an ongoing growing water and food shortages crisis across the country. The canal will play a vital role in ensuring food security and will bring benefits to farmers, particularly those from the Pashtun community who support the Taliban and are expected to migrate to the predominantly Uzbek and Tajik-inhabited region. Afghanistan has become an arid desert over the past few decades, as a result of global warming, declining groundwater reservoirs and lack of sufficient irrigation systems. the canal is now bound to provide water to more than one million afghanis while enabling thousands of farmers to return to agriculture this will be achieved as 55000 hectares of land are turned into Farms with a great focus on grains and wheat. In fact, the country aims to become a wheat exporter by 2028.
The project is set to be completed in three phases the first and second phases involve the actual digging of the canal while the third phase is dedicated to the installation of water irrigation systems and other infrastructure.

Challenges:
Afghanistan's neighbour countries, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan have concerns over the potential loss of 15% of their irrigation water sourced from the Amu Darya. They have communicated these concerns to the Taliban. Afghanistan holds a dominant position on the Amu Darya River as the source of the watercourse and, notably, it is not a signatory to the UN
Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, established in 1992. Should the Taliban engage in negotiations, the Central Asian republics have several
options. electricity to Afghanistan, as Afghanistan imports electricity from Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Iran. It's worth noting that the Taliban is reportedly funding the canal.

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