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	Tarbela Dam - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Tarbela Dam is the largest earth and rock filled dam in the world.Its a superb Mega structure...
		Tarbela is one of the world's greatest water resources development project built on one of the...
		The Tarbela Dam in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province was constructed in 1976 and involved the resettlement of more than 80,000 people – many to a series of townships surrounding the Tarbela...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Tarbela_Dam.html (228 words)

	Tarbela Dam Information
		Tarbela Dam is a dam on the Indus River in Pakistan.It is one of the largest earth filled dams in the world and it produces much of Pakistan's hydroelectricity.
		Tarbela Dam is part of the Indus Basin Project, which resulted from a water treaty signed in 1960 between India and Pakistan, guaranting Pakistan water supplies independent of upstream control by India.
		The exact location of the dam is in the North Western Frontier Province, near the Ghazi township in Attock District.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Tarbela_Dam (211 words)

	TARBELA DAM PROJECT
		Tarbela is one of the world's greatest water resources development project built on one of the world's largest rivers.
		The principal element of the project is an embankment dam 9,000 feet (2743 meters) long with the maximum height of 470 feet (143 meters).
		The auxiliary dams resembling the main embankment dam in design close the gaps in the left periphery of reservoir.
	www.geocities.com /badshah419 (307 words)

	Pakistan Water Gateway - Key Water Information
		Tarbela Dam was the second such development, which was constructed to reduce the shortcomings and strengthen the irrigation system.
		The primary objective of this project was to prolong the life of Tarbela reservoir through improved methods of land-use and implementation of watershed management practices in the catchment area above Tarbela dam.
		The Tarbela Dam Project initially estimated that 100 villages would be submerged and the inhabitants will have to be displaced, but in fact 120 villages were submerged, affecting 96,000 people.
	www.waterinfo.net.pk /fstd.htm (1251 words)

	Rising water level at Tarbela dam enhances power capacity -DAWN - National; August 07, 2006
		The sources at the powerhouse said that due to torrential rains and melting of glaciers in the catchment areas of the dam, generation had increased to 3,671 megawatt which was 193 megawatts more than its installed capacity of 3,478 megawatts.
		Sources said that all the 16 gates of the two spillways were lifted by nine ft from where 130,700 cusecs per second was being discharged from the nine gates of the auxiliary spillway and 101,700 cusecs from the seven gates of the service spillway while 120,100 cusecs of water was being released through the powerhouse.
		To a question, the sources answered that to meet any emergency dam authorities were fully prepared and the Tarbela Lake would be filled to its capacity by the end of the current month.
	www.dawn.com /2006/08/07/nat17.htm (272 words)

	Settlement of Tarbela Dam affectees claims
		Tarbela Dam is constructed on River Indus in the North West Frontier Province at a distance of about 70 kilometers from the capital Islamabad.
		This organization, set up on the pattern of the one at Mangla, was responsible for the assessment, acquisition and payment of compensation for the properties thus affected and acquired: and the evacuation and resettlement of the vast population.
		The Tarbela Dam Resettlement Organization functioned with a modicum of efficiency not unexpected of a bureaucratic organization of such temporary nature.
	www.pakistaneconomist.com /issue1999/issue30/f&m4.htm (1557 words)

	Wetlands of Pakistan - IUCN Pakistan - IUCN Contribution
		Warsak is a smaller dam that is used for both purposes as well with a total generation capacity of 240 MW.
		The Kalabagh Dam (3,600 MW) controversy is well known and the proposed hydropower project is the most disputed one in Pakistan.
		The Bhasha (Diamar) Dam (3,360 MW), another large-scale project is still under consideration, and is being heavily opposed by the people of Chilas, where it may displace around 1,500 households, bring a large portion of Karakoram Highway underwater and destroy the natural habitat of some species.
	www.iucn.org /places/pakistan/wetlands/wiucn.htm (723 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The world's largest earth-filled dam on one of the world's most important rivers - the Indus - is 103 km from Islamabad.
		The dam was completed in 1976 at a cost of Rs.18.5 billion.
		With a reservoir capacity of 13,690,000,000 cubic m, the dam is 143 m high and 2,743 m wide at its crest.
	www.tourism.gov.pk /tarbela_dam_swabi_nwfp.htm (134 words)

	Wetlands & Water Resources Programme of IUCN - The World Conservation Union
		In the case of Tarbela alone, 80,000 people required resettlement, 20,000 houses were displaced, and 34,000 hectares of land was taken away by the project.
		The building of Tarbela Dam resulted in the increase in the water table of the surrounding towns; water logging and salinity also increased, turning fertile agricultural land into waste land; ecosystems such as the Indus Delta suffered due to the decrease of freshwater flow.
		The development of the Allai Khwr, a dam envisaged in NWFP, was shelved due to socio-economic reasons.
	www.iucn.org /themes/wetlands/pakdam.html (652 words)

	EO Newsroom: New Images - Tarbela Dam, Pakistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Tarbela Dam is part of the Indus Basin Project, which resulted from a water treaty signed in 1960 between India and Pakistan.
		Turquoise waters of the Indus River (to the south of the dam) reflect the high proportion of silt and clay suspended in waters released by the spillways (chutes on either of side of the main dam).
		With a volume of 142,000,000 cubic meters, the Tarbela Dam is the largest earth and rock fill dam in the world and stands 147 meters above the Indus riverbed.
	earth.jsc.nasa.gov /EarthObservatory/Tarbela_Dam,_Pakistan.htm (335 words)

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		To avert the impending danger to the safety of the dam, and the life and property further downstream, the reservoir was depleted.
		Tarbela dam is the life line of Pakistan's agriculture and meets the demand of irrigation by supplying about 60 billion cubic meter or 48.6 million acre foot (Maf) of regulated flow of water in a year.
		In anticipation of the new dams, the policy makers and the planners had commenced the conversion of the Tarbela dam to a power-oriented project, rather than storage of water for irrigation.
	my.reset.jp /~adachihayao/030422N.htm (1591 words)

	Awami National Party - Official Website
		The Dam is not just a technical issue, it is now a socio-political, environmental and humanitarian problem which involves the fate of thousands of people of Sindh and NWFP provinces.
		Tarbela is now expected to become inoperative due to siltation in the next 15 to 20 years.
		The dam came close to failure twice: in 1977 by the collapse of two of its outlets due to cavitation, and in 1978 by massive erosion of the plunge pool that began to erode the flow spillway.
	www.anp.org.pk /kalabaghdam.htm (3059 words)

	Tarbela Dam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tarbela Dam (or the National Dam) (Urdu: تربیلا بند) is the national dam of the country on the very basin of the Indus River in Pakistan.It is located 50 kilometers North-West of Islamabad near the Haripur District.
		It is one of the largest earth filled dams in the world and it produces much of Pakistan's hydroelectricity.
		With a reservoir capacity of 11,098,000 acre-feet (13.69 km³), the dam is 469 feet (143 m) high and 8,997 feet (2,743 m) wide at its crest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tarbela_Dam (262 words)

	Pakistan Link Headlines
		TARBELA: Hundreds of victims of the Tarbela Dam, dislocated in 1975 from their birth places and still in search of their due rights, have sought their financial share from the Rs 120 million daily income of the Dam in the shape of water and electricity charges.
		Opposing the construction of new dams in the country as planned by the present regime, the victims Thursday accused the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Government of Pakistan of ignoring them for the last three decades.
		A group of about one dozen Islamabad-based journalists was especially taken to Tarbela Dam site and the affectees colonies to show the real picture to the world about what happened with them after one night they all were forced to leave their houses.
	www.pakistanlink.com /headlines/Mar/16/14.html (1106 words)

	Kalabagh: Harbinger of Prosperity Or Agent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This is the Big Dam lobby-which is not as strong as it was a few years ago, mainly because of a growing movement of Dam-affected people and concerned environmentalists who have experienced the human misery and ecological disasters of large dams the world over from the United States to China and India.
		Dams are built for meeting two main needs: for irrigation purposes by storing water to compensate for fluctuations in river flows; and for hydro-power generation.
		Whether it is a carryover dam of sufficient storage capacity upstream of Tarbela, increasing irrigation efficiency through plugging the leaks in the system, initiating working on a more decentralized irrigation and power generation system-all this can be explored, if the government initiates a serious public debate on these issues.
	www.binoria.org /albineng/july98/kalabagh.html (2010 words)

	Pakistan Times.net
		The dam site is located on Indus River about 315 km upstream of Tarbela Dam 165 km downstream of Northern Area Capital Gilgit and 40 km west of Chilas and 210 km north of capital Islamabad.
		Diamer-Basha dam will be the first mega water reservoir in the country after Tarbela dam which was commissioned in 1976.
		Tarbela dam directly benefits every three billion dollars per year and 40 per cent of total population benefit from it.
	pakistantimes.net /top3017601.htm (973 words)

	Tags: Dam
		The legendary Grand Coulee Dam is still one of the largest concrete dams in the world, and the largest hydroelectric plant in the country (third largest in the world), generating 6,500 megawatts of power.
		The Imperial Dam is the headworks and origin for the All American Canal, which is the main source of water for the Imperial Valley.
		Some of the dams along the Columbia that have fish ladders offer public viewing areas to watch salmon make their way through the dam, though seeing fish through the window is rare, as some estimate that 90% of the salmon population of the Columbia...
	ludb.clui.org /tag/Dam (695 words)

	SHOULD TARBELA BE WITH WAPDA?
		In November 1985 (MOL) of the dam was raised to 408 meters (1339 feet).
		The Tarbela dam was proposed to be constructed in two stages.
		In the first stage 400 feet high earth and rock filled with a capacity of 8.4 MAF was to be constructed and in the second the height was to be raised by 50 feet to increase the gross capacity to 11.1 MAF.
	www.islamabad.net /shahid/wapda-tarbela.htm (1816 words)

	Concerning the Kalabagh dam controversy
		The building of more dams is vital not only for Pakistan's agriculture but also for the economy as a whole since these dams would be dual-purpose dams, serving as both water-storage reservoirs and hydroelectric dams for generating low-cost electricity.
		The proposed Kalabagh Dam project is located on the Indus 192 km downstream of Tarbela Dam and 26 km upstream of Jinnah Barrage, and immediately below the confluence with the Soan River.
		The dam site of the proposed Bhasha power project is located on the upper Indus River 314 km upstream of Tarbela Dam and about 120 km downstream of the confluence with the Gilgit River.
	www.cobrapost.com /documents/Kalabaghdam.htm (1192 words)

	Geophysical & geological environment of Kalabagh dam Engr. Iftikhar Ahmed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Thus the construction of Kalabagh dam at the proposed location is to play with the dangerous consequences of earthquakes, and putting the life of downstream inhabitants at stake.
		On top of all this, the silt delta in Tarbela reservoir is traveling at a rate of 1/2 mile per year, and is feared to ultimately get deposited in the KBD reservoir, thus reducing the life span of the dam.
		It is worth mentioning that a number of Tarbela resettlers at Guddu Barrage command have long sold off their compensation land and are leading a rudderless life, because of their failure to settle down in an alien environment.
	www.khyberwatch.com /kalabagh/iftikhar3.htm (2494 words)

	THE KALABAGH DAM ORCHESTRATION
		Kalabagh (Black Garden) Dam is big brothers baby (a province of Pakistan controlling 60% of all resources and all opportunities) and the smaller ones have not only to live with it but suffer it too.
		Citing the example of Tarbela dam, Sindh's withdrawals before it was 35.6 million acre feet which rose to 44.5 MAF, showing 22 percent increase, after its construction.
		The main source of water for Kalabagh dam is Tarbela dam itself as is said later in the reassurance against next objection.
	www.sanalist.org /kalabagh/a-15.htm (1989 words)

	Kalabagh Dam; Why It Should Not be Built - Technical Report by ADN
		There is a growing realization that pro-dam rhetoric -large dams are a source of energy generation, flood control mechanism and regulated irrigation network---needs to be verified and weighed against its adverse impacts on environment and the society.
		The Kalabagh Dam project is an outcome of a highly centralized and politically coercive decision-making process; it is technically flawed; socially and environmentally unacceptable and economically unfeasible.
		The Tarbela experience is still fresh in the minds of many people who have seen their lands being ruined by water logging after the reservoir was built at Tarbela.
	www.khyber.org /articles/2003/KalabaghDamWhyItShou.shtml (2992 words)

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		Tarbela capacity fast declining By Ahmad Fraz Khan (DAWN, LAHORE, May, 20, 2002) Tarbela Dam is losing 100,000 cusecs storage capacity every year and with that pace there will be no water available for wheat maturity and cotton sowing after five years.
		With silt inflow, the dam's capacity has been reduced to 7.2maf - a loss of 2.3maf - during the last 26 years.
		If the present storage capacity of both dams - which is around 15maf - is taken as a base line, the country will need a 5maf dam every 10 years.
	www.tarbela.it /POSTA/posta.htm (524 words)

	Reservoirs of choice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In case the construction of the dam at Skardu is feasible we need not go for construction of both Kalabagh and Basha dams because the Skardu dam with its 35 MAF reservoir would take care of the country's water needs for many years.
		a) The height of a dam at Kalabagh is restricted by the effect of its reservoir on Peshawar valley.
		This is not the case in context of Basha dam.
	www.cobrapost.com /documents/reservoirs.htm (886 words)

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		The two dams have a structure similar to that of the main dam, and are constructed with the same type of materials.
		The Tarbela Dam is the largest earth and rockfill dam of the world.
		The progressive silting of Tarbela reservoir could impede, in some decades, an useful efficiency of the dam.
	web.tiscali.it /sndcagliari/Schede/Tarbela_en.htm (250 words)

	Focus on the dams dispute in Pakistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The first dam to be built on the mighty river Indus, which meanders a long, and now controversial, route through the length of Pakistan, before disappearing into the Arabian Sea, Tarbela is vulnerable to the large amounts of silt it receives.
		Mangla dam, built on the river Jhelum, about 120 km south of Islamabad, is also eroding, an International Union for the Conservation of Nature-Pakistan (IUCN-P) spokesman told IRIN from the southern port city of Karachi last week.
		Building a dam upstream of Tarbela would act as a holding cell for the silt and minimise the impact, Farhan Sami, the IUCN official, had said last week, as he described extensive watershed management programmes which had been undertaken to reduce the levels of silt flow but which later ran into financial difficulties.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=36592 (990 words)

	Dams and Development E-paper - ADB.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A process to address outstanding compensation for resettlement resulting from the Tarbela Dam, Pakistan commissioned in 1977, was required in the loan covenants of the downstream Ghazi Barotha project some 20 years later.
		They did so without any compensation and were left with the choice of moving to wherever it was that their employer had purchased another farm, or to remain in the area (although not on the expropriated farms) and attempt to find employment in an area and sector that was shedding jobs'.
		The dam changed the whole flooding regime of the river, which had significant negative impacts on agriculture and fisheries.In 1978 a workshop was held on the Phongolo floodplain to review the future of irrigation and how to minimise the negative impacts on floodplain.
	www.adb.org /water/topics/dams/dams0810-10.asp (2036 words)

	Restructuring Tarbela.(dam ) - Journal, Magazine, Article, Periodical
		It provides nearly 30 percent of all the irrigation water available in dry season, 2100 MW of hydropower was to be generated as a by-product.
		As long as this rule was diligently followed, the delta formed by the sediments moved slow by towards the dam at an average rate of one mile per annum.
		In November 1989 (MOL) of the dam was raised to 408 meters 1339 feet).
	goliath.ecnext.com /coms2/summary_0199-2473806_ITM (312 words)

	Pakistan Times \| Top Story: Aid to Quake Victims: Pakistan increases Compensation by 4-Times
		Diamir-Basha dam will be the first mega water reservoir in the country after Tarbela dam which was commissioned in 1976.
		importance as dams are not only needed for agriculture but also for drinking water both for humans as well as livestock.
		The water from the dam would provide a boost to industry as it would help in the expansion of industrial sector which is possible with only more and cheap electricity.
	pakistantimes.net /top3016600.htm (1162 words)

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