Uruzgan

This is part 3 of a three-part series. You can read Part 1 here, and part 2 here. My first order with the windmill pump manufacturing company was for four windmills. The first windmill would be constructed at Kandahar Airfield as a demonstration project for military commanders and Afghan officials...

This is part 2 of a three-part series. Read Part 1 here. Stay tuned for Part 3 later in the week. To try to make contact with the pump manufacturer in Pakistan, I went back to Sandy, who suggested that I e-mail my questions to him. He would print my e-mail and fax it to the man in Pakistan, who...

This story has three parts. Stay tuned for Parts 2 and 3 later in the week. When I arrived in Afghanistan as a USDA Agriculture Advisor in 2005, I was overwhelmed with what I found: an arid climate, agriculture being practiced in much the same way that it had been for thousands of years and...