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< a name="Afghansitan River, Water"> Afghanistan Water
The country possesses many rivers, river basins, lakes and desert areas. The four major river systems are the Amu Darya, the Oxus of antiquity, the Hilmand ,the Harirud and the Kabul . Only the Kabul River, joining the Indus system in Pakistan, leads to the sea. Many rivers and streams simply empty into arid portions of the country, spending themselves through evaporation without replenishing the four major systems; others flow only seasonally.
Three major dams are :
(1)Arghandab Dam -storage capacity of 388,000 acre-feet of water
(2) Kajakai Dam- storage capacity of 1,495,000 acre-feet of water
(3) Naglu Dam -stores 304,000 acre-feet of water
others are
(5)Mahipar Dam
(6)Dahla Dam