UNOPS announced on January 29 a three-year Kabul water and climate-resilience programme funded by JICA with USD 9.3 million, targeting approximately 150,000 people.
Plans include check dams, reservoirs and irrigation canals for aquifer recharge and flood-risk reduction. These are proposed interventions; the beneficiary target is not a count of people already served.
BHP’s August results show strong copper earnings and cost control; an ore-grade scenario isolates how fixed processing energy raises cost per tonne of recovered copper.