Pakistan Case Study: Dam's Dams In Pakistan

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Topic
“Dam’s construction in Pakistan”

“Name: Syed Abdullah Sherazi Semester: B.S 7th Reg No: 096 Submitted to: Sir Khalid Mehmood Subject: Sustainable Development”

Contents

• Introduction
• Dam’s problem in Pakistan
• Controversial Dam issues Pakistan
• Importance of Dams for Pakistan
• Dams in Pakistan
• Diamer Bhasha Dam, many projects are under progress
• Ongoing Projects
• Benefits of Dams
• Conclusion

Introduction:-
An important sustainability issue of the present growth pattern in Pakistan is the energy constraint.
First there is growing divergence between the demand for energy and the measures taken to increase its supply. Second the impact of the energy shortage on domestic industry and investment …show more content…

Some people do not drink a lot of other wastes. Witnesses heads grow Suiting woman's hand kilometers floods and harvest massive urban car was watering irrigation, while on the other hand.
Arid land Pakistan is heavily dependent on annual monsoon rains and melting glaciers. From these sources of water flowing down the river and the sea. On the way, escapes to a country that, water or aquifer rocks receive and store water. Most countries, but rarely with little or no precipitation into surface waters. Pakistan Water Partnership (PWP) pointed out that Pakistan's total available surface water for roughly 153 million acres feet (MAF) and the total supply of underground water for about 24 MAF, most of which have been extracted, but not natural recharge. Currently estimated at $ 16 billion, which will be the Pakistani population doubling the 2.5 decades. This means that the availability of water per capita decreases. There may be a net decrease, rather than increase water resources in the country, due to a number of factors, including population growth, climate change and water …show more content…

It is not distributed evenly around the world, or even the year of their unequal availability of the same locality so. Although part of the world is water shortages, it is prone to drought, other parts of the world, which is rich in water, facing a tool to optimize the management of available water resources challenging. Undoubtedly, the river is a great gift of nature, and has played an important role in the evolution of civilizations, but in many cases the river, weather, flood, has seriously undermined the lives and properties of people. One of the most important issues in the management of rivers has been, therefore, are considered. Specific plans to optimize water resources management requirements must evolve river as they found after extensive research, technical and economically feasible various basins. Since the advent of civilization, man has built dams and reservoirs to store excess water during the rainy season and during the lean period using available. Dams and reservoirs around the world have been playing water governance and socio-economic growth to accelerate to alleviate the suffering of the dual role of many people in the world from the vagaries of floods and droughts suffered. Dams and reservoirs to meet these basic human needs significant contributing:

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