For years, Herat has been living with 120-day winds; winds that are part of the natural climate of the Sistan and western Afghanistan and blow in this region from late spring to summer and early fall. But the problem is not just the wind itself. When the land dries up, groundwater levels drop and vegetation disappears, dry riverbeds, wetlands and abandoned lands are exposed to the wind. The same wind that was once just a climatic phenomenon beco…
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For years, Herat has been living with 120-day winds; winds that are part of the natural climate of the Sistan and western Afghanistan and blow in this region from late spring to summer and early fall. But the problem is not just the wind itself. When the land dries up, groundwater levels drop and vegetation disappears, dry riverbeds, wetlands and abandoned lands are exposed to the wind. The same wind that was once just a climatic phenomenon beco…