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Dasht River (Urdu: دریائے دشت) Kech River; Basol River; Hingol River (Urdu: دریائے ہنگول) Nal River; Porali River; Hub River (Urdu: دریائے حب) Orangi Nala; Malir River (Urdu:دریائے ملير ) Lyari River (Urdu:لیاری ندی)(no more river only drain now) Gujjar Nala(no more river only drain now)
The Soan River cutting through Pothohar One of the many gorges of the Soan River. The Soan River (Urdu: دریائے سواں; Punjabi: دریائے سواں), also referred to as the Sawan, or Sohan, is a river in Punjab, Pakistan. It originates from the Murree Hills and joins River Indus near Makhad. [1]
Zam system (Urdu: زم) is a form of irrigation system in Pakistan. Zam means the flow of perennial water coming out of springs, whereas Rod Koh is the main torrent bed which remains usually dry, when there is no flood. [1] The flood and perennial water of the Zam is used for irrigation as well as for drinking purpose.
Rod Koh or Rod Kohi (Persian: راد کوہ) is a form of irrigation system in Pakistan. Rod means channel and Koh means mountain in Persian.The Rod Kohi system based on Kulyat Riwajat (Fromulae and Traditions) which governed the irrigation system ever since the Pashtun tribes moved into Damaan.
In the jurisdiction are of Islamabad the river system is composed of three major tributaries, namely (i) Saidpur Kas, (ii) Tenawali Kas and (iii) Bedarawali Kas. They originate from the Margalla Hills and flow into the mainstream of Lai N ullah just upstream from Kattarian Bridge, at I.J. Principal Road forming the administrative boundary ...
Sukkur Barrage is used to control water flow in the River Indus for the purposes of irrigation and flood control. This barrage which is the backbone of the economy of the entire country enables water to flow through what was originally a network of seven canals 9,923 kilometres (6,166 mi) long, feeding the largest irrigation system in the world, with more than 7.63 million acres of irrigated ...
The counterweight system of the shadoof is an early example of the engineering of river water. In pre-industrial society , rivers were a source of transportation and abundant resources. [ 19 ] [ 26 ] Many civilizations depended on what resources were local to them to survive.
Doab (English: / ˈ d oʊ ɑː b /) is a term used in South Asia [1] for the tract [2] [1] of land lying between two confluent rivers. It is similar to an interfluve. [3] In the Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, R. S. McGregor defines it as from Persian do-āb (دوآب, literally "two [bodies of] water") "a region lying between and reaching to the confluence of two rivers."