The Darunta Dam (Pashto: درونټه برېښناکوټ) is located on the Kabul River near the village of Darunta, approximately 7 km (4.3 mi) west of Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar Province in eastern Afghanistan.

[1] Darunta Dam was built in the early 1960s under the supervision of engineers from the Soviet Union.

[2] Its power station contains three vertical Kaplan turbines (six-blade propeller) with a rated output of 3.85 megawatts (5,160 hp) each.

[4] In 2011, an American company by the name of ANHAM was contracted by USAID to perform the initial rehabilitation of the Darunta power plant.

[5] Later, the USAID abandoned the repair work due to Gul Agha Sherzai not paying 10% of the project's $11 million total cost.