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 ...

Afghanistan is rapidly constructing the Qosh Tepa Canal, a waterway meant to help irrigate more than 500,000 hectares of its arid northern regions, for which it will redirect 20–30% of the Amu ...

Afghanistan is rapidly constructing the Qosh Tepa Canal, a waterway meant to help irrigate more than 500,000 hectares of its arid northern regions, for which it will redirect 20–30% of the Amu ...

Afghanistan is rapidly constructing the Qosh Tepa Canal, a waterway meant to help irrigate more than 500,000 hectares of its arid northern regions, for which it will redirect 20–30% of the Amu Darya ...

The Qosh Tepa Canal is intended to open up huge areas for agriculture in northern Afghanistan. The main canal could be finished as early as this year, and could worsen water shortages among ...

The Qosh Tepa canal is expected to reduce the downstream flow by 15%, raising concerns in downstream countries about future water supplies. In response to these concerns, Uzbekistan has taken a ...

Could there be a world where there's not enough water left for them? Afghanistan predicts that the Qosh Tepa will be completed by 2028. Already, four water-hungry countries rely on the Amu Darya.