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Water supply project to benefit 7,000 families

KABUL): Nearly, 7,000 families would get access to potable water with the execution of a water supply project in northern Samangan province, the finance ministry said on Saturday.

A contract to the effect was inked between Afghanistan‘s water supply and canalisation department chief Dad Mohammad Bahir and the Omran Holding Group Chief Executive Officer Mohammad Naser Ahmadi.

A statement from the ministry said water from a spring in Khuram Sarbagh district would be supplied through a 38-kilometre pipe to Maimana, the provincial capital.

Funded by the ministry, the $9 million (471 million afs) project will take two years to complete, according to the statement.

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