Construction resumes on water supply network in Balkh after two years

Local officials in Balkh province say that construction work on a water supply network has resumed after two years of suspension.

This is one of the largest water supply networks in Balkh – a project started under the former government.

The project, which will cost 260 million afghanis will be completed in two months.

The water project will provide more than 100,000 people with drinking water.

“The length of this network is 36 km. It is a transmission network for the city of Mazar-e-Sharif, which takes water from five wells and transfers it from the area of Takhta Pul,” said Nematullah Ahmadi, the general director of Balkh’s water supply department.

“The Ministry of Higher Education is very attentive to the problems of professors and students and has dealt with the existing problems in a timely manner,” said Zia ul-Rahman Zia, president of Balkh University.

The contractors say they will try to complete the work within two months.

“The water supply project of the Takhta Pul is almost 95 percent finished, and to complete the remaining five percent, the contracting company, in cooperation with the water supply department, has a plan to complete the remaining work in the future two months,” said Mirwais Ayubi, the head of the contracting company.

Balkh residents say they have faced serious problems in the past and are happy they will soon have access to drinking water.

“Today we are witnessing that the remaining works of the Takhta Pul project started and students and fellow citizens will benefit from its water,” said Mouluddin, a tribal elder in Balkh.

The construction of this 36 km long water supply network starts from Takhta Pul village of Dehdadi district and continues to Balkh’s new university.