page_title: Panj River
section_title: Water consumption
hierarchical_section_title: Panj River / Water consumption
caption_attribution_description: English: Panj river https://picasaweb.google.com/117919047400413299240/Pamir#5610275640057322322
context_page_description: The Panj River, also known as Pyandzh River or Pyanj River, is a tributary of the Amu Darya. The river is 1,125 km long and forms a considerable part of the Afghanistan–Tajikistan border.
  The river is formed by the confluence of the Pamir River and the Wakhan River near the village of Qalʿa-ye Panja. From there, it flows westwards, forming the border of Afghanistan and Tajikistan. After passing the city of Khorog, capital of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region of Tajikistan it receives water from one of its main tributaries, the Bartang River. It then turns towards the southwest, before joining the river Vakhsh and forming the greatest river of Central Asia, the Amudarya. Panj played an important role during Soviet times, and was a strategic river during the Soviet military operations in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
context_section_description: A water treaty between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan, signed in 1946, allows Afghanistan to draw 9 million cubic metres of water a year.   
  It currently draws 2 million cubic metres of water.  According to the Panj River Basin Project environmental damage could be expected if Afghanistan drew the entire amount of water from the river that the treaty allows.
caption: Panj river
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