HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): Water and Energy Minister Ali Ahmad Usmani on Wednesday inaugurated reconstruction work on a major canal in western Herat province.
Usmani said that the World Bank (WB)-funded project would cost 110 million afghanis and take 1,000 days to complete in two phases. He said the canal’s reconstruction would help prevent water wastage and irrigate 4,000 hectares of land.
Eng. Noor Ahmad Barz, director of the Harirod-Murghab river basin, said the canal . . .
