When The Water Runs Dry: What Is To Be done With 1.5 Million Settlers In Deserts Of Southwest Afghanistan When Their Livelihoods Fail? – Analysis

By David Mansfield*

*Introduction*

In the last five years 48,000 new houses were built in the barren deserts of southwest Afghanistan. This population of almost half a million people migrated to this inhospitable terrain despite the expense and back breaking work involved in setting up home: clearing and levelling the land...