An Iranian official says Afghanistan should work with Iran to determine water shares from Helmand River to help end the dust storms that plague southern Afghanistan.

In a Twitter post on Wednesday, Iranian Special Envoy for Afghanistan Hassan Kazemi Qomi said the dust storms that affect people in southern Afghanistan were deplorable.

“For years, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been of the opinion that ecological crises know no border and that regional countries should join hands to tackle that scourge,” Kazemi Qomi said. “The Islamic Republic of Iran expresses its readiness to transfer the necessary knowledge to prevent this ecological crisis and regards the determination of water shares from Helmand River as being necessary to preventing that challenge.” Read further from the source above