Dams in Pakistan

Dams in Pakistan

• • The Indus river basin stretches from the Himalayan mountains in the north to the dry alluvial plains of Sindh province in Pakistan in the south and finally flows out into the Arabian Sea.
    In Pakistan, the Indus river basin covers around 520 000 km², or 65 percent of the territory, comprising the whole of the provinces of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and most of the territory of Sindh province and the eastern part of Balochistan.
  • Tarbela Dam is the largest earth filled dam in the world and is second largest by the structural volume.
  • Mirani Dam is the largest dam in the world in terms of volume for flood protection with a flood-stock of 588,690 cubic hectometer.
  • Sabakzai Dam is 7th largest with a flood-stock of 23,638 cubic hectometer.
  • Map of water resources in Pakistan.