BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Dec. 30, 2008 – The provincial reconstruction team in Afghanistan’s Konar province is working to restore an irrigation system in the province’s Manawara district that has become a casualty of decades of war. An Afghan village elder leads provincial reconstruction team members to a well in Afghanistan’s Konar province. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Russell Gilchrest (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The ancient Karez system, comprising 12 wells and numerous aqueducts, uses river water and underground spring water to irrigate crops in the area. During the Soviet-Afghan war that began in 1978 and ended in...