Herat, Afghanistan — 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 construction will constrict cross-border flow.

Afghan residents in the western Herat province are delighted as the Salma Dam - India's major reconstruction project in Afghanistan - is nearing completion, and water has started filling up its reservoirs.

Minister of water and energy Ali Ahmad Osmani on Monday said government has started work on implementing the Hirmand water treaty and management of territorial waters in the western zone of the country.

Salma Dam, Herat Dam or Afghan-India Friendship Dam - call it by any name, but this major infrastructure project, inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi in Afghanistan is special for many reasons. For one, the Salma Dam is the most expensive of India’s infrastructure projects in...Read more

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Pune: The Salma Dam, also known as the Afghan-India Friendship Dam, which was recently inaugurated in Herat province of Afghanistan by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and their President Ashraf Ghani, has a Pune connection. Pune-based Central Water and Power Research Station (CWPRS) has claimed that the...Read more

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NEW DELHI: It will not just be Qatar and the USA that will keep Narendra Modi busy in the early part of June, the prime minister is likely to stop by at Herat in northwest Afghanistan en route to Doha to inaugurate the Salma Dam...Read more

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India has played a big role in rebuilding Afghanistan following the fall of Taliban regime in 2001. Since 2002, India has committed $2 bn.

In a corner of the southern Afghan desert, scorched by heat and thrashed by sandstorms, Nimruz is one of Afghanistan’s most remote and lawless provinces. Enjoying little international aid or government authority, it is also one of the least developed.

India's major reconstruction project in Afghanistan, the Salma Dam, is nearing completion, and water has started filling up its reservoirs -- delighting Afghan residents in the western Herat province where it is located.