MoEW warns of heavy rains, floods, rise in river water levels

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Energy and Water (MoEW) has predicted relatively heavy rains, flash floods and rising water levels in rivers for the next two days and asked residents to go to safe areas.

Today (Wednesday), the ministry said in a tweet that from Thursday and Friday, there is a possibility of relatively heavy rain with flash floods and rising water levels in some areas of the country's river basins.

The ministry wrote: "There is possibility of heavy rains and flash floods in the Kabul and Helmand region and the possibility of floods due to rainfall, melting of snow and rising water levels in rivers in Kunar, Laghman, Logar, Maidan Wardak, Khost, Paktia There are Paktika, Ghazni, Zabul, Tirinkot of Uruzgan province and Arghandab district of Kandahar province.

The Ministry of Energy and Water asked residents of the mentioned areas to refrain from approaching rivers and to inform residents of downstream areas when floods occur or the water level rises in order to prevent human casualties.

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