Monday, February 25, 2013
Kabul (BNA) The Minister of Water and Energy signed a memorandum of understanding with a Pakistani company on the basis of which the Pakistani company in 18 comings months will prepare the detailed design of dam on the Farah River.
Mohammad Ismayel Minister of Water and Energy during the signing ceremony said that this project is most beneficial for the people of Farah and in addition to economic benefits this will facilitate security in the areas as well.
The dam is to be constructed 180 km distance from the Farah center on which a concrete wall with the height of 180 meters will built which will have the capacity for accumulating over one billion cubic meters of water.
The dam will also irrigate around 160,000 hectares of land and will produce over 27 megawatts of power that is enough to meet the needs of the province to an extent.
This will also provide jobs for one million farmers.
According to the officials of the ministry the detailed design of the dam will incur over USD4 million that is to be provided from the development budget of the government and the Pakistani company will carry on the designing process in 18 months.
The contract was signed by Minister of Water and Energy and Nespak Company of Pakistan.
It should be noted that so far the ministry has been able to carry on survey on 111 large dams and construction of building of some of them have been started.
Afghanistan is considered very rich in water resources however due to some reasons the country could utilize only 30% of its water resources.
