Transboundary Water from Afghanistan: Climate Change, and Land-Use Implications brings together diverse factual material on the physical geography and political, cultural, and economic implications of Southwest Asian transboundary water resources. It is the outgrowth of long-term deep knowledge and experience gained by the authors, as well as the material developed from a series of new workshops funded by the Lounsbery Foundation and other granting agencies.
Afghanistan and Pakistan have high altitude mountains providing vital water supplies that are highly contentious necessities much threatened by climate change, human land-use variation, and political manipulation, which can be managed in new ways that are in need of comprehensive discussions and negotiations between all the riparian nations of the Indus watershed (Afghanistan, China, India, and Pakistan). This book provides a description of the basic topographic configuration of the Kabul River tributary to the Indus river, together will all its tributaries that flow back and forth across the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the basic elements that are involved with the hydrological cycle and its derivatives in the high mountains of the Hindu Kush and Himalaya.
1. Introduction - p. xxi 2. Part I: Introduction to Physical Characteristics of Water - p. xxi 3. Introduction - p. 1 4. Chapter 1: Characteristics of the Regional Hydrological Cycle - p. 2 5. Chapter 2: Hydrogeography (Drainage Basins and Rivers) of Afghanistan and Neighboring Countries - p. 22 6. Chapter 3: Ground-Water Geology of Afghanistan - p. 40 7. Chapter 4: Development of Water Resources in the Kabul River Basin - p. 90 8. Chapter 5: H2O Hazards, Risks, and Disasters in Afghanistan and Surrounding Countries - p. 119 9. Chapter 6: Characteristics and Implications of Climate Change in Afghanistan and Surrounding Regions - p. 144 10. Part II: Water-Management Issues in Central and South Asia - p. 161 11. Introduction - p. 163 12. Chapter 7: Modern Water Management Issues in Central and Southwest Asia - p. 165 13. Chapter 8: Introduction to the Indigenous Water-Management System in Afghanistan - p. 192 14. Chapter 9: Dams in Afghanistan - p. 211 15. Chapter 10: Water Quality Matters - p. 268 16. Chapter 11: Issues of Hydrologic Data Collection by Remote Sensing in Afghanistan and Surrounding Countries - p. 288 17. Chapter 12: Afghanistan Water Treaties and Relevant International Water Law - p. 309 18. Chapter 13: Hydro-Cognizant Capacity-Building in Afghanistan - p. 324 19. Chapter 14: Hydro-Hegemony in Afghanistan and Surrounding Countries - p. 337 20. Chapter 15: Water in Islam - p. 359 21. Chapter 16: Water and the Opium Economy in Afghanistan - p. 375 22. Chapter 17: Hydropolitics of Afghanistan and Its Future - p. 401 23. Chapter 18: Future of Water Management in Afghanistan: Capacity Building, Risk Assessment, Cooperation, and Good Water Governance - p. 419 24. Part III: Distance Learning in Central and South Asia - p. 439 25. Introduction - p. 441 26. Chapter 19: Distance Learning Modules for Water - p. 442 27. Chapter 20: Concluding Transboundary Water Activities - p. 452 28. Index - p. 473
Transboundary Water from Afghanistan: Climate Change, and Land-Use Implications brings together diverse factual material on the physical geography and political, cultural, and economic implications of Southwest Asian transboundary water resources. It is the outgrowth of long-term deep knowledge and experience gained by the authors, as well as the material developed from a series of new workshops funded by the Lounsbery Foundation and other granting agencies.
Afghanistan and Pakistan have high altitude mountains providing vital water supplies that are highly contentious necessities much threatened by climate change, human land-use variation, and political manipulation, which can be managed in new ways that are in need of comprehensive discussions and negotiations between all the riparian nations of the Indus watershed (Afghanistan, China, India, and Pakistan). This book provides a description of the basic topographic configuration of the Kabul River tributary to the Indus river, together will all its tributaries that flow back and forth across the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the basic elements that are involved with the hydrological cycle and its derivatives in the high mountains of the Hindu Kush and Himalaya.
1. Introduction - p. xxi 2. Part I: Introduction to Physical Characteristics of Water - p. xxi 3. Introduction - p. 1 4. Chapter 1: Characteristics of the Regional Hydrological Cycle - p. 2 5. Chapter 2: Hydrogeography (Drainage Basins and Rivers) of Afghanistan and Neighboring Countries - p. 22 6. Chapter 3: Ground-Water Geology of Afghanistan - p. 40 7. Chapter 4: Development of Water Resources in the Kabul River Basin - p. 90 8. Chapter 5: H2O Hazards, Risks, and Disasters in Afghanistan and Surrounding Countries - p. 119 9. Chapter 6: Characteristics and Implications of Climate Change in Afghanistan and Surrounding Regions - p. 144 10. Part II: Water-Management Issues in Central and South Asia - p. 161 11. Introduction - p. 163 12. Chapter 7: Modern Water Management Issues in Central and Southwest Asia - p. 165 13. Chapter 8: Introduction to the Indigenous Water-Management System in Afghanistan - p. 192 14. Chapter 9: Dams in Afghanistan - p. 211 15. Chapter 10: Water Quality Matters - p. 268 16. Chapter 11: Issues of Hydrologic Data Collection by Remote Sensing in Afghanistan and Surrounding Countries - p. 288 17. Chapter 12: Afghanistan Water Treaties and Relevant International Water Law - p. 309 18. Chapter 13: Hydro-Cognizant Capacity-Building in Afghanistan - p. 324 19. Chapter 14: Hydro-Hegemony in Afghanistan and Surrounding Countries - p. 337 20. Chapter 15: Water in Islam - p. 359 21. Chapter 16: Water and the Opium Economy in Afghanistan - p. 375 22. Chapter 17: Hydropolitics of Afghanistan and Its Future - p. 401 23. Chapter 18: Future of Water Management in Afghanistan: Capacity Building, Risk Assessment, Cooperation, and Good Water Governance - p. 419 24. Part III: Distance Learning in Central and South Asia - p. 439 25. Introduction - p. 441 26. Chapter 19: Distance Learning Modules for Water - p. 442 27. Chapter 20: Concluding Transboundary Water Activities - p. 452 28. Index - p. 473
