as Κωφήν Kōphēn (Latin spelling Cophen). Modern era Since the 1990s, the river has experienced substantial droughts in summer. In approximately March 2019, ten of thousands of gallons of untreated sewage from the Makroyan Waste Water Treatment Plant has been dumped into the Kabul River each month, reportedly causing gastrointestinal issues among the 3,000 families that live along the river. Etymology In Sanskrit and Avestan The word Kubhā which is the ancient name of the river is both a Sanskrit and Avestan word. The word later changed to Kābul.<ref>{{cite book |title=The History and Culture of the Indian People : The Vedic age| author =Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, Achut Dattatrya Pusalker, A. K. Majumdar, Dilip Kumar Ghose, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Vishvanath Govind Dighe Published by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan|year=1962|page =247|quote=The Kubha is the modern Kabul river which flows into the Indus a little above Attock and receives at Prang the joint flow of its tributaries the Swat (Swastu) and Gauri}}</ref> Al-Biruni Al-Biruni also called it "the River of Ghorwand". The Kabul River later gave its name to the region and to the settlement of Kabul. Institution Leadership Kabul River Basin (KRB) is a government authority under the Ministry of Energy and Water (MEW) of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GoIRA). Based on the Water Law it was created. The recent Director General of this major water institution was Jalal Naser Faqiryar, who brought positive changes, contributed a lot to the transparency, basin development, and applicable policies, especially river basin management which had positive impacts and results. Gallery See also List of rivers of Afghanistan List of rivers of Pakistan References External links Kabul River. Encyclopaedia Iranica''. Rivers of Afghanistan Rivers of Pakistan Tributaries of the Indus River International rivers of Asia Rigvedic rivers Landforms of Kabul Province Landforms of Nangarhar Province Rivers of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Rivers of Punjab (Pakistan) Jalalabad Kabul Indus basin Rivers in Buddhism