JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Two engineers have constructed 10 check dams in the Haska Mena district of eastern Nagarhar province with human and financial support of local residents and overseas Afghans.
The dams have the capacity to store at least 36,000 cubic meters of water and farmers can benefit from the water for many months.
The two engineers, Parvez Shinwari and Sifatullah, said poverty, drought, regime change and lack of irrigation water forced them to construct the check dams with financial support of expatriates.
Engineer Shinwari told Pajhwok Afghan News: “These small dams were built with human power, the area’s . . .
