Prime Minister Stephen Harper sits with Chief of Defence Staff Walter Natynczyk while touring the Dahla Dam in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan May 7, 2009. Photograph by: CHRIS WATTIE REUTERS FILE, Postmedia News'21st-Century Warfare' -- Montreal Gazette/Post Media News
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It is a bizarre sight in the middle of this vast and scorching desert: a tropical Eden of exotic birds and dazzling flowers enveloped in a fine cool mist, and all because of the torrents of water roaring from the Dahla Dam's hydraulic gates.
If future generations of Afghans remember anything about Canada's five-year quest to bring security, stability and development to Kandahar, it will almost certainly be for fixing up this paradise on a plateau to the northwest of the capital of Kandahar province.
Canada has invested $50 million to bring the Dahla Dam back to life and clean up 74 kilometres of irrigation canals connected to the Arghandab River.
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My Comment: Afghanistan has a culture of corruption, warfare, and sectarian/religious violence. If the Dahla Dam is still operational 10 - 20 years from now after the last international soldier has left .... I will be very surprise.