How the Taliban are Monopolising Central Asia's Water
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Good job Afghanistan
Since their return four years ago, the Taliban have gone on an infrastructure spree, building dams and canals, despite concerns from their neighbouring countries. In this video, we're taking a look at the Afghan waters, how it interacts with Iran's water crisis and how things could get worse.
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Water inside thier borders. They can do whatever they want with it
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Good to see a stable Afghanistan reassert its water rights in the region.
Afghanistan vs Central Asia water tensions
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Water-insecurity-in-Central-Asia.pdf
Funny how iran is running out of water.
https://www.intellinews.com/central-asia-and-afghanistan-heading-for-confrontation-over-water-thirsty-canal-warns-analyst-399798/?source=afghanistan
https://thediplomat.com/2025/01/could-afghanistans-qoshtepa-canal-worsen-water-scarcity-in-central-asia/
If the Taliban are ousted. No one will mourn. And Afghanistan will be free again.
https://eurasianet.org/uzbekistan-pursues-dialogue-with-afghanistan-on-fraught-canal-project
Afghanistan vs Iran water tensions
Truth is that since there has been a war in Afg those other are used to getting all that water and not they wine, they have dams and Afg should also build its dams.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Location-of-the-Transboundary-Hirmand-Helmand-River_fig1_336656919
https://www.unomaha.edu/international-studies-and-programs/center-for-afghanistan-studies/academics/transboundary-water-research/DLM14/DLM14.php
Water from Afghanistan won't help Iran's crises in the west of the country.
https://www.internationalwaterlaw.org/documents/regionaldocs/1973_Helmand_River_Water_Treaty-Afghanistan-Iran.pdf
https://www.internationalwaterlaw.org/documents/regionaldocs/1973_Helmand_River_Water_Treaty-Afghanistan-Iran.pdf
🌊Wars
https://www.science.org/content/article/can-iran-and-afghanistan-cooperate-bring-oasis-back-dead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamal_Khan_Dam
Dams can be bombed easily, very unwise to fight over them.
https://www.internationalwaterlaw.org/blog/2015/07/23/the-helmand-river-and-the-afghan-iranian-treaty-of-1973/
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That Hindu Kush must be a really dope produc... mountain =)
@drk_blood3:01 Oh I cannot imagine why.
@rtasvadam1776Afghanistan has faced water crises for centuries, so why is building dams considered a problem when they could provide vital water for civilians? Many countries rely on dams, why should it be an issue for Afghanistan?
@Theworld-f6iI had the impression that they were too broke to build this kind of infrastructure projects. Where did they get the money?
@RANIYAFAIgonna say this again, "ch" in "Baloch" is pronounced as "ch" in "chair"
@Himadri.S.DebnathLets hope so
@barracuda008l4Their lands their rules they want to build a dam or take a shower not the word business
@ayoubte4651"Infrastructure spree" is not a term I expected to hear today.
@Drecon84a nation's government governs its nation
breaking, outrageous news
hey anyway, remember that train crash in ohio, or those mysterious fires in hawaii? Whatever happened with that? Sorry, unrelated
they have better kept fresh water in dams than let it flow to meet the end in salty lakes. those lakes are not consumable or usable in agricultural irritation against arid weather. desalination plants are able to help and reduce some scarcity but high costs of operating and maintenance procedures are inclusively questionable. corporation of water usage planning needs to be recklessly established and consented in a meeting room for those activities in which one is paused temporarily or continuous to resume as most feasible advantage. i believe china will not hesitate to set up table and bring issue to study before they finalize one of those is agreeable like they do flawless commitment on mekong river dams construction that is one of seamless action plan. cheers. 🇹🇭🥰🇦🇫❤🇨🇳
@chouxsojunetieIran: We spent millions of dollars on terrorists.
Also Iran: I think we funded the wrong terrorists.
Well, at least this time they have an actual reason for fighting each other.
@rcchin7897Climate change is BS in this context. There are plenty regions in the world with a shortage of water
@alexleshchinsky9750Pakistan and Iran now after supporting the Taliban and giving the Americans a reason to leave: 😑
@badfoodythe taliban with its current foreign diplomacy would basicly be in a 4 front war .
@bafengameingreattaliban must be destroyed
@bafengameingreatSo 1/3 of the Amur river water gets its sources from Afghanistan mountains which then flows through Amu river, and all these year Afghanistan's northern neighbors enjoyed zero water flowing to Afghanistan and now when Taliban want their fair share everyone is crying foul. Good work Taliban.
@TheRacer-e7iWhy can’t WHITE learn how to pronounce properly
First, learn to properly pronounce!!!
"...climate change and population growth will only exacerbate this problem in the future." Unless they don't, which given the variability of the climate and population trends is far more likely than not.
@DMBallHello world that why our "Neighboring countries" kill us Pakistan, Iran 😂😅
@AsadullahLudin-i5bIran cuts all our water supplies in Iraq but when someone gives them a taste of their own medicine ....they cry...such money country !
@Ara198826the are fighting america ang Israel!! bad now they scared to taliban?
@shintot970Begun, the Water Wars have
@kashif-newzGood stuff, now do a video on the rape gangs in the UK which you and the MSM have covered up
@jackdaniels4368I hope they cover the canal to minimise water loss by evaporation.
Hopefully their engineering is just as good as their ability to survive US occupation lol
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@acash93They're the Afghan Government now, stop trying to imply they're not the official representatives of the country!
@fauxhound5061The Chinese did
@kennethroth6757I wish you would translate it into Persian so that Afghans themselves can understand it.
@omidashaqy-t8cWhen absolute water is provided to Afghanistan and originates in Afghanistan, why should it be given to others for free? Especially Iran, which for 56 years obtained water in a general way without calculating its amount, while the right was determined to be 2 billion per year, but 5 billion cubic meters of water was given to it because there were no dams there and all the water reached them? Shouldn't it be managed?
@shahzadhelal8129Wow looks like your subscribers are just dumb just like you 😂
@freedom88-d3dso what should afghanistan do? face droughts and let its people starve?
@thegulfaraz1Yes the dam could start wars. Water equals food and life in that area.
@walterabernathy5663cool, just dont come to europe
@richardm7713Asalamailakum taliban brothers..❤ from NorthEast.. even us have guns in every home😂
@ranjeeteBamontoo bad, afghanistan has had nothing forever let them thrive, besides its their land.remember.
@pedrothewise2584What a bunch of bull shit.
@mahmoudshojai431Afghanistan is a stolen land of central Asia and is being controlled by criminals & terrorists !
@SleepyMonsterTruck-pk8yxAbout time and all as it's been treated as football for too long time we had a government ( not a fan of it) which can't be intimidated
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