Integrated Water Resources Management of Kabul River Basin

Integrated Water Resources Management of  Kabul River Basin

Location: East Afghanistan

Activity: Dams and Water Resources

Client: The Regional Center on Urben Water Management Ministry of Energy and Water (MEW),Afghanistan

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Project Description:

Services: Master plan studies

Foreign cooperator: DHI - Denmark

Technologies used:

1- Capturing precipitation data from satellite images

 2- providing land use maps from satellite images

3- Integrated water resources modeling using simulation software

 4- Wide range utilization of database systems and GIS

Objectives:

- Evaluating the potentials of water resources in the basin

- Assessment of future water demands (municipal,agricultural, industrial and hydro-electrical).

- Compiling integrated water resources management approaches to meet future demands by defining new execution projects

Basin area: 53000 km²

Future year of the plan :2031

Studies started: 2002

Studies finished: 2006