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    Agreement signed to get more Afghans access to clean water....


    Jarullah Mansoori, Afghanistan's Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development








    Yesterday, the Afghan government signed an agreement with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in which $52 million will be spent on getting Afghans in poor communities throughout the country access to clean water and sanitation. The agreement, Memorandum of Understanding on the Crucial Clean Water Pact, was signed by U.S. Embassy Deputy Ambassador E. Anthony Wayne, USAID Deputy Mission Director Robert Hellyer and Afghanistan’s Rural Rehabilitation and Development Minister Jarullah Mansoori.
    The agreement calls for a three year long project where 4,000 water points will be developed and about 50,000 latrines will either be built or repaired and improved. The agreement also calls for some 50 water pipe schemes to be built.
    The project will not only increase clean water supplies for many Afghans, but it will also promote good hygiene, which will help to further the fight against water-related diseases. The project will also help to provide awareness for the need for water conservation in Afghanistan.




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    A line[Durrand line] of hatred that raised a wall between the two brothers -Hamid Karzai

    For generations, the Hindus of India prayed for deliverance from "the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger and the vengeance of the Afghan."


    The men of Kábul and Khilj also went home; and whenever they were questioned about the Musulmáns of the Kohistán (the mountains), and how matters stood there, they said, "Don't call it Kohistán, but Afghánistán; for there is nothing there but Afgháns and disturbances." Thus it is clear that for this reason the people of the country call their home in their own language Afghánistán, and themselves Afgháns. The people of India call them Patán; but the reason for this is not known. But it occurs to me, that when, under the rule of Muhammadan sovereigns, Musulmáns first came to the city of Patná, and dwelt there, the people of India (for that reason) called them Patáns—but God knows!

    -Ferishta, 1560–1620
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    • #3
      A very good news infact .. !!
      yao warokay ghwandi baagh ao pa khwa ye seen rawan!

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        Very pleased to see this

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        • #5
          Originally posted by shlombay
          Laila how was water in laghman?
          Laghman had good, clean well water. Well, to make it clear. It was clean for native people. But for someone like me, it still wasnt proper enough to drink. However, comparing water in Laghman, is a lot cleaner than Kabul water. Even Salang has cleaner water than Kabul. Environment has a lot to do with it. Laghman has a clean environment. Where as Kabul has a dirty (literally) environment. Its always filled with dust. So when water is exposed to that type of environment, it isnt even clean enough to drink. It causes many illnesses.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by rihana
            Since Laghman is near a river, I am sure it has good water.
            You are right in a sense. However, so does Kabul. But it really has to do with the environement. Laghman is mostly villages, its not polluted with dust. So that is why the water is so much cleaner. Even though Laghman is not too far from Kabul.

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