Water is absolutely critical to woefully arid Afghanistan, yet few people really know very much about their precious fluid.  The natural physics and the different chemistry of water is complicated but well understood by scientists. Other aspects of the use of water resources are yet to be explained...Read more

The Kabul River Basin, which accounts for 35% of the country’s population, is the most important river basin of Afghanistan [I]. Kabul is the fifth fastest growing city in the world and among the world’s most water-stressed cities [II, III]. Its population in mid-2014 was estimated at 4.5 million and...Read more

The Oregon State University's Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database provides an effective complement to FAOís legislative database, FAOLEX, and the joint UNEP, IUCN and FAO gateway to environmental law, ECOLEX. This Atlas and these open treaty databases yield a better understanding of existing treaties and treaty development through time, provide...Read more

Water scarcity in parts of South and Central Asia are creating tensions within the region that may lead to worldwide instability. The University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) Center for Afghanistan Studies (CAS) initiated this project funded by U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) and Lounsbery Foundation to develop people-to-people dialogue...Read more

The Transboundary Waters Assessment Programme (TWAP) was initiated by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to create the first baseline assessment of all the planet’s transboundary water resources. This serves a number of purposes, including benchmarking and knowledge exchange, identification and classification of water bodies at risk, and increased awareness of...Read more

ACKU is Afghanistan's largest online information sharing database that provides open access to information on Afghanistan by collecting, categorizing, cataloging and digitizing more than 15000 volume of books, magazines, newspapers, reports and articles. The database, among other topics, also includes material on Afghanistan's waters....Read more

WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. It requires library membership for full access....Read more