ISLAMABAD - Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) has started construction work on Darawat dam and Nai Gaj dam in Sindh province.According to an official of WAPDA, the dams would irrigate over barren land of Hyderabad and Dadu. The construction of site camps is completed including soil ...

LAHORE - The federal government should divert the money being spent on subsidy of electricity to build dams on war footing so that Pakistan does not face water shortage in the coming years, said Punjab United Front President Engineer Faisal Malik at a seminar on Friday. The seminar titled ...

RAWALPINDI – Construction work on three dams in Rawalpindi has been stopped due to the indifference of the Punjab government and financial hurdles.Sources said the dream of provision of 37 million gallons of water to the city through construction of the dams could not be realised as yet. This ...

RAWALPINDI  - Construction work on three dams in Rawalpindi has been stopped due to the indifference of the Punjab government and financial hurdles. Sources said the dream of provision of 37 million gallons of water to the city through construction of the dams could not be realised as yet. ...

It is a misconception that dams deplete rivers and reduce their flow. Dams actually store and save surplus flood waters and add these to the flow of the rivers. Dams are built to overcome shortage of water, and not to increase it.It is at the barrages that the canals taking off from them deplete ...

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Water and Power Syed Naveed Qamar on Friday informed the National Aseembly that India was planning to construct more dams on the Western Rivers ,however, India has not yet supplied any information about its new/planned projects in accordance with the provisions of the ...

LAHORE (APP) As many as 7,500,000 acres feet water was wasted owing to lack of water storage facility from June last to uptill now in the country Talking to APP here Sunday, Pakistan Agri Forum Chairman Muhammad Ibrahim Mughal said, Had the water reservoirs been established in the country, the ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER ISLAMABAD - Acting Speaker National Assembly, Faisal Karim Kundi, has said that construction of new dams is inevitable for prosperity and progress of the country. He said that construction of dams would not only control massive loss of water during monsoon season occurred every ...

The two largest water reservoirs of the country, Tarbela and Mangla Dams are almost filled to capacity due to increase in inflow as a result of recent monsoon rains. Keeping in view the situation the authorities have started releasing entire amount of inflow to downstream. Water level in the ...

KARAK - District Coordination Officer (DCO), Karak, Javed Ahmad Khan has imposed Section 144 for a period of one month on swimming in Barani dams and also prohibited from holding any function and gathering around the dams. According a press release issued from the office of DCO Karak on Thursday, ...

RAWALPINDI (APP) Provincial Agriculture Minister Malik Ahmed Ali Olak has said that Punjab government is making all out efforts for the development of agriculture sector and soon Rawalpindi division will have eight more small dams. He said upper areas of Punjab could not make considerable ...

RAWALPINDI (APP) Provincial Agriculture Minister Malik Ahmed Ali Olak has said that Punjab government is making all out efforts for the development of agriculture sector and soon Rawalpindi division will have eight more small dams. He said upper areas of Punjab could not make considerable ...

PESHAWAR Tehreek-e-Istiqlal Chairman Rahmat Khan Wardag has said that thousands of acres cultivable land has been turned barren due to lack of water reservoirs in the country. The incumbent rulers are busy following the US agenda and thus bringing droughts in the country, he said while addressing ...

Dozens of people in northern Burma have reportedly been killed in the clashes between government troops and the Kachin Independence Army. Thousands more are trying to flee across the border after fierce fighting erupted this month around the construction sites of two Chinese-financed dams in the ...

LAHORE - In view of increasing demand of water and electricity in the country, WAPDA is executing about 20 projects in water and hydropower sectors. This was stated by WAPDA Chairman Shakil Durrani while addressing a delegation of PAF Air War College Karachi, headed by Air Vice Marshal Azher ...

The water level at dams in dams is increasing continuously and the load-shedding is likely to be decreased in the country. According to a private TV channel, the water level at Mangla Dam is 117 feet high from the dead level while at Tarbela Dam, water level is 5.8 feet high from the dead ...

Chairman parliamentary committee on Kashmir Maulana Fazlur Rehman has urged the government to construct small dams in line with Indus Water Treaty rather than wasting time in holding talks with India on water issue. Maulana Fazlur Rehman said this while talking to media men here Monday after ...

LAHORE - Indus Water Treaty Council (SWC) and Pakistan Water Movement (PWM) have said that Israeli engineers and water experts are supervising the work of Indian dams being constructed on Pakistani rivers across the border. In a meeting held here at Qudsia Markaz on Thursday, Chairman of the ...

LAHORE While nationalist parties in Pakistan are having infighting with respect to the waters of River Indus and construction of the proposed and much-needed reservoir at Kalabagh to meet the irrigation and electricity generation needs, India has done it so, quietly and covertly. India has stepped ...

FAISALABAD - The power generating from Tarbela Dam costs only 49 paisa (Re 0.49) per unit while the electricity being added from the Independent Power Plants (IPPs) costs Rs 8 and the power prices would touch the limit of Rs 15 per unit because of rental power plants. It was stated by former Wapda ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The government has planned to construct 32 small and medium dams in all provinces with an estimated cost of Rs 250 billion to bridge the gap between supply and demand of electricity. The government has allocated Rs 250 billion for the construction of these dams during the PSDP of ...

LAHORE (APP) - WAPDA Chairman Shakil Durrani Saturday said that in addition to executing mega projects, Wapda has also planned to construct small and medium dams in all the four provinces and FATA. He said this during his visit to Winder, Darawat and Nai Gaj sites where he interacted with the local ...

ISLAMABAD (Online) - Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Northern Areas has said that the construction Diamir Bhasha Dam would start in the second quarter of 2010, while the repatriation of families to be affected by it would start this year. He said this during a meeting of National Assembly ...

ISLAMABAD - The government would spend  $ 22 billion to build water reservoirs to overcome energy shortage, newly appointed Head of Infrastructure Project Development Facility, Ghulam Murtaza Satti said here Saturday. However, Ghulam Murtaza Satti did not give any detail as to how the ...

LAHORE - The detailed engineering design as well as tender documents of the multi-purpose Diamer-Bhasha Dam Project have been completed, whereas the international panel of experts has also reviewed all the studies and details. WAPDA Chairman Shakil Durrani stated this during a presentation on ...

LAHORE- The Provincial Irrigation and Power Department is spending a cumulative sum of Rs 2,155 million on the construction of small dams in Pothohar districts including Jhelum, Chakwal, Rawalpindi and Attock. These schemes, besides providing water for the irrigation purposes, will also supply ...

Punjab Senior Minister for Irrigation, Raja Riaz Thursday said many small and medium sized dams will be built from the allocation made for shelved Kalabagh dam to overcome power crisis in the country. Talking to media during the luncheon hosted by President Pakistan People's Party Lahore, Haji ...

KARACHI - Sindh government has planned to construct 32 small dams in the province to bring more area under cultivation by storing water, The Nation learnt on Monday. The PPP-led provincial government also proposed to earmark more than one billion rupees in upcoming budget to construct small dams ...

The death toll from China's deadliest earthquake in decades climbed to nearly 15,000 on Wednesday, as officials warned of calamities downstream from broken rivers and dams strained to bursting point. Tens of thousands of troops, firefighters and civilians raced to save more than 25,000 people ...