Boghra Irrigation Canal

Boghra Irrigation Canal

The Boghra Irrigation Canal is a man-made canal some 155 kilometres long in central Afghanistan in Helmand province, serving to divert water from the Helmand River and the Arghandab for farmland. It was built in the 1950s.


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