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In Pakistan, according to the Joint Monitoring Program for Water Supply and Sanitation of the World Health Organization and UNICEF, access in Pakistan to an improved water source increased from 85% in 1990 to 92% in 2010. In the same time, improved sanitation coverage increased from 27% to 48% (see table 1).
The sector contributes about 25% of the Pakistan's GNP (2000-2001). [8] The country still has the world's largest contiguous irrigation system. [9] In 1999-2000, the total irrigated area in Pakistan was 181,000 km². [10] Water is also essential for power generation in Pakistan, since about 29% is generated through hydropower. [11]
The Kachhi Canal Project is a 499-km long canal project situated in the Baluchistan and Punjab Provinces of Pakistan. It starts from Taunsa Barrage at Indus River and terminates in Baluchistan. The canal provides sustainable irrigation water supply to 720,000 acres of agricultural land in Baluchistan and 30,000 acres of land in Punjab.
Transfers water from Trimmu Barage in to the Ravi River. Qadirabad Balloki Link Canal Qadirabad Barrage Chenab: 127 25,000 n/a It is an extension of Rasul-Qadirabad Link Canal by which the water is transferred to the Ravi river. Punjnad Canal Punjnad Barrage: Chenab: 92 10,484 1,421,000 Abbasia Link Canal Punjnad Barrage: Chenab: 76 5,600 n/a ...
This is a list of barrages and headworks in Pakistan. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Picture Name River Year completed Ref. Munda Headworks Swat: 1931 [1] Punjab.
Lake of Simly dam. Simly Dam is an 80 meters (260 ft) high earthen embankment dam on the Soan River, 30 kilometers (19 mi) east of Islamabad and Rawalpindi in Rawalpindi District, Punjab, Pakistan.A great politician Haji Raja Kamal Khan who served much by providing his land for dam. [2]
Left Bank Outfall Drain is a drainage canal in Pakistan.Built between 1987 and 1997 using funding from the World Bank, [1] the canal collects saline water, industrial effluents and Indus river basin floodwater from more than two million hectares of land of Shaheed Benazirabad, Sanghar, Mirpurkhas and Badin districts located in Nara River basin into the Arabian Sea.
The second major development post independence in the history of irrigation in Punjab was 1991 Water Accord between all the four provinces of Pakistan. This accord gave Punjab province 55.94 million acre feet of water share annually for its irrigation and drinking usages. [ 9 ]