small dams

• In the Western Highlands, besides large irrigation projects, small dams have been built to irrigate relatively smaller areas
• These small dams are located on narrow streams commanding small alluvial areas in hilly regions
• Some small dams in the Western Highlands have been built by WAPDA, while others have been built by the Small Dams Organisation set up by the Agricultural Development Corporation
• An example of a smaller dam is Rawal dam on the river Kurang, which supplies water to Islamabad and irrigates about 50 square kms of land
• The Khanpur dam on the river Haro, recently commissioned, will irrigate 148 square kms in the Abbotabad, Attock, and Rawalpindi districts
• Balochistan has several small dams:

  • The Nari-Bolan Project uses the monsoon flow of the Bolan River to irrigate 97 square kms of the Sibi plains
  • The Narachip Project irrigates 13 square kms of the Loralai District
  • The Hab Dam in the Lasbela District, commissioned in 1982, is designed to irrigate 340 square kms of land in and around Lasbela and Karachi