{"id":19627,"date":"2026-03-30T09:29:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=19627"},"modified":"2026-03-30T09:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:29:08","slug":"recent-rains-fill-dams-across-afghanistan-ministry-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/03\/30\/recent-rains-fill-dams-across-afghanistan-ministry-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent rains fill dams across Afghanistan, ministry says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Afghanistan\u2019s Ministry of Water and Energy says recent heavy rainfall has significantly increased water levels in several major dams across the country.<br>According to a statement from the ministry today, key dams including Pashdan in Herat, Sultan in Ghazni, and Shah wa Arous and Qargha in Kabul have reached high capacity levels.<br>The ministry said the rise in water levels reflects an improvement in water resource conditions and is expected to positively impact the agricultural sector.<br>Officials also expressed optimism about a productive year ahead, citing the benefits of increased rainfall and reservoirs.<br>The development comes as authorities have in recent years focused on building dams and small water reservoirs to better manage rainwater and support groundwater resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Afghanistan\u2019s Ministry of Water and Energy says recent heavy rainfall has significantly increased water levels in several major dams across the country.According to a statement from the ministry today, key dams including Pashdan in Herat, Sultan in Ghazni, and Shah wa Arous and Qargha in Kabul have reached high capacity levels.The ministry said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19629,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19627\/revisions\/19629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}