Afghanistan Reservoir Transparency

Coverage is 0 (no national reservoirs >10 hm³ with public data). Quality dimensions for the COVERED subset are therefore 0 by definition. Original notes preserved below: No public reservoir storage or water level data is published by the Taliban-controlled government. The MEW website (now restructured as NWARA) is nominally online but contains no hydrological data portal. Kajaki Dam (1,960 Mm³) and Dahla Dam (288 Mm³) are the country's main reservoirs; neither has any public data feed. Iran in 2024–2025 had to negotiate bilateral access just to assess Kajaki's water level, confirming the absence of routine public disclosure.

Coverage is 0 (no national reservoirs >10 hm³ with public data). Quality dimensions for the COVERED subset are therefore 0 by definition. Original notes preserved below: No machine-readable formats, APIs, or downloadable datasets exist for Afghan reservoir data. The MEW/NWARA website provides administrative information only. Hundreds of hydrometric gauging stations destroyed during prior conflicts were never rebuilt, leaving data collection itself severely impaired.

v1.3.0 capacity-weighted: coverage = round(100 × covered_capacity_hm³ / total_national_capacity_hm³). Afghanistan's total reservoir capacity above 10 hm³ is approximately 2,800 Mm³, dominated by Kajaki (~1,960 Mm³ on the Helmand) and Dahla/Arghandab (~288 Mm³), with Naghlu (~550 Mm³), Sardeh (~166 Mm³) and possibly Sarobi contributing the rest. The Taliban administration has not established a hydrological reporting mechanism since August 2021; the Iran episode (bilateral diplomatic access required just to assess Kajaki's level) confirms the absence of routine public disclosure. Covered capacity = 0 Mm³. Coverage = round(100 × 0 / 2,800) = 0.

Coverage is 0 (no national reservoirs >10 hm³ with public data). Quality dimensions for the COVERED subset are therefore 0 by definition. Original notes preserved below: Some pre-Taliban hydrological records exist in international archives (USGS Afghanistan projects, World Bank reports), but these are externally held, not published by Afghanistan, and are discontinuous due to decades of conflict. No national historical time series is publicly accessible from Afghan sources.

Coverage is 0 (no national reservoirs >10 hm³ with public data). Quality dimensions for the COVERED subset are therefore 0 by definition. Original notes preserved below: No routine data publication cycle exists. The Taliban administration has not established any regular hydrological reporting mechanism since taking power in August 2021. Any data that emerges does so through bilateral diplomatic channels, not public portals.

Coverage is 0 (no national reservoirs >10 hm³ with public data). Quality dimensions for the COVERED subset are therefore 0 by definition. Original notes preserved below: No published measurement standards, calibration protocols, or quality-control documentation exist. The NWARA does not disclose how, or whether, reservoir levels are monitored systematically.

The MEW/NWARA website offers an English interface (mew.gov.af/en) alongside Dari/Pashto. However, this interface contains no reservoir data, so language accessibility is moot for the RTI purpose. A minimal score is assigned reflecting that the English page exists but carries no relevant content.