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AIN SHAMS ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 14, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.asej.2022.101842
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Afghanistan water resources; Pakistan water resources; Transboundary water cooperation; Water sharing agreement; Benefit sharing; Integrated water resources management
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This paper discusses the transboundary water issues between Afghanistan and Pakistan, highlighting the lack of trust which hinders cooperation dialogue, and proposes a cooperation framework emphasizing benefits-sharing.
Afghanistan has been trying hard to gradually develop its largely underused water resources. The trans -boundary Kabul River basin (KRB) between Afghanistan and Pakistan contributes almost one quarter to the water resources generated nationwide. Currently, there is no cooperation mechanism pertaining to KRB, despite growing demand for irrigation and hydropower particularly on the Afghan side. This paper presents a state-of-the-art review on transboundary water issues between Afghanistan and Pakistan based on geographic, hydrographic, hydrologic, historic, institutional, and political aspects. The chal-lenges and opportunities are carefully examined, and a path forward is presented. A persistent lack of trust between upstream Afghanistan and downstream Pakistan has hindered meaningful dialogue for cooperation. Both neighbors have high stakes in cooperation given that Afghanistan's water resources are almost 90% transboundary and Pakistan has high dependency for water resources. This study presents a cooperation framework emphasizing benefits-sharing as a principle going beyond water needs and rights.(c) 2022 THE AUTHORS. Published by Elsevier BV on behalf of Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams Uni-versity. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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