A strategic mistake in the original 1960s engineering design of Mangla Dam is expected to cost the government Rs38.8 billion in fiscal year 2012, ...

Mangla is the only site on Jhelum river where a dam with large storage capacity could be built. On this site construction of Mangla Dam was completed in 1967 as part of the Indus Basin Treaty ...

In fact, the provision of raising Mangla Dam was integrated in its original design to take care of the silting up of the reservoir at a later stage and thereby secure its lost water storage ...

The dam, which was constructed in 1967, had a gross storage capacity of 5.88 million acre feet but, with the passage of the time, the reservoir lost its capacity, due to accumulation of sediment ...

The phased process for rehabilitation of the affectees of the gigantic Mangla Dam raising project coupled with initial work on the project, including formal survey to launch the construction work ...

The Mangla dam, first part of the complex to be completed, took a group of eight U.S. companies led by Guy F. Atkinson Co. of San Francisco less than six years to build at a cost of $510 million.

The consultants of Mangla Dam in their design of the project way back in 1960 had envisaged the life of the Mangla reservoir from 100 to 115 years.

In wake of the recent earthquake in Mirpur (AJK), the Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) Chairman Lt Gen Muzammil Hussain (R) visited the Mangla Dam and its components ...

Mangla dam water levels declining. APP. January 14, 2024. Outflows of water reduced to only 100 cusecs from the country’s 2nd largest reservoir – Mangla Dam, following the continual decline of ...

Mangla Dam, one of the country's major reservoirs, reached its dead level of 1050 feet on Sunday, which will increase water shortage for the provinces for the remaining days of the Rabi season and ...