A water supply project, worth 82-million Afghanis, for 14 villages in Pasaband of Rustaq district was inaugurated on Saturday by Abdullah Qarluq, Governor of Takhar province and Dr. Ahmad Khalid Fahim, Programme Director/ Deputy Country Director, Swedish Committee for Afghanistan.
Work on the pipeline project, covering 85 square kilometers, began in 2018 and it will give access to safe drinking water to 3,645 families in remote villages.
“The project has been implemented by SCA’s Rural Development Programme and was completed in two years and six months. It uses solar power to transfer water from two 150-meter-deep wells to reservoirs built along the high hills of 14 villages where the beneficiaries can utilize the supply,” said Engineer Hashmatullah Momand, head of the SCAs Rural Development Programme in Taloqan.
