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This page shows the province-wise list of dams and reservoirs in Pakistan. According to the International Commission on Large Dams, 73 dams and reservoirs in Pakistan are over 15 m (49 ft) in height. [1] Tarbela Dam in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is the largest earth-filled dam in the world and is the second largest by the structural volume.
Picture Name River Year completed Ref. Balloki Headworks: Ravi: 1915 1966 (remodeling) [2]Chashma Barrage: Indus: 1971 [3]Ghazi Brotha Barrage: Indus: 2004 [4]Islam Headworks
Mangala Dam from the top of Ramkot fortress Picture taken on the Mirpur city side of Lake, near sunset. As part of the Indus Waters Treaty signed in 1960, India gained rights to the waters of the Ravi, Sutlej and Beas rivers, while Pakistan, in addition to the waters of the aforementioned three rivers' sections within Pakistani territory and some monetary compensation, received the rights to ...
Tarbela Dam (Pashto: د توربېلې بند, Hindko: تربیلا بند) is an earth-filled dam along the Indus River in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. It is mainly located in Haripur Tehsil. [1] It is about 20 km (10 mi) from the city of Swabi KPK, 105 km (65 mi) northwest of Islamabad, and 125 km (80 mi) east of Peshawar.
Tank Zam Dam: Hinis Tangi, KPK, Tank Zam River: 25.5: Feasibility studies completed. [29] Cost estimate $234 million. [33] Hingol Dam: Lasbela District, Hingol River, Balochistan: 3.5: Feasibility studies completed. Cost estimate $311 million. [33] Akhori Dam: Akhori, Punjab, Haro River: 600: Feasibility studies ongoing. Cost estimate $1.6 ...
Satpara Dam is a medium-size multi-purpose concrete-faced earth-filled dam located downstream from Satpara Lake on the Satpara Stream approximately 4 km from the town of Skardu in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. The dam has enlarged the size of Satpara Lake, generates 17.36 MW of hydroelectricity, supplies power to approximately 30,000 households ...
These dams, along with a series of headworks and barrages built by the British and expanded since the independence of Pakistan in 1947, are of vital importance to the national economy and played an important role in calming the raging floodwaters of 1992, which devastated large areas in the northern highlands and the Punjab plains.
Tarbela Dam, Pakistan (the largest earth-filled dam in the world and also the largest by structural volume) Rawal Dam, Pakistan. Tarbela Dam; Mangla Dam; Khanpur Dam; Dasu Dam; Sabakzai Dam; Mirani Dam; Rawal Dam; Gomal Zam Dam; Hub Dam