Water management projects to be implemented in Faryab next year

MAIMANA (Pajhwok): Local officials in northwestern Faryab have said 59 water management projects worth 251 million afghanis would be implemented in the province during the upcoming solar year.

Mulavi Abdul Hakim, head of the Northern Zone Basin, who recently visited Faryab province, told reporters today that all these projects will launched in the coming 1401 solar year.

The projects include checkpoints, water canals and retaining walls, he said, adding that the schemes would cost 251 million afghanis.

He said that the goal of his visit to Faryab province was to talk to local officials and representatives of people, listen to their problems and needs.

Hakim said that he would provide all needed facilities and respond to current problems within his area of ​​responsibility and would share what was outside his authority with the Ministry of Energy and Water.

A number of local elders in Faryab shared their suggestions with Hakim and said that most people in Faryab were farmers who over the last few years affected by drought and some of them changed their activities.

They say that the government should pay attention to their problems, build dams for them and complete irrigation projects which left incomplete from the past.

Abdul Wahab, a tribal elder from Qaisar district, told Pajhwok Afghan News that fresh fruits and raisins of the district were very famous, but gardens dry before their fruit rips due to shortage of water.

He said that most of water from the province moved to Turkmenistan due to absence of retaining walls and dams, something he added should be controlled.

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