{"id":58012,"date":"2019-11-26T17:10:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=58012"},"modified":"2023-12-26T14:10:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T09:10:23","slug":"rawalpindi-to-have-40-new-mini-dams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/rawalpindi-to-have-40-new-mini-dams.html","title":{"rendered":"Rawalpindi to have 40 new mini-dams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rawalpindi: The irrigation department has made the decision to construct 40 mini-dams and 50 reservoirs in order to conserve the water supply along the China Pakistan Economic Corridor\u2019s (CPEC) Western corridor \u2013 a news source reported.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/replacement-rawalpindis-ageing-water-pipelines-recommended.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Replacement of Rawalpindi&#8217;s ageing water pipelines recommended<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These details were shared by Director Soil Conservation Iftikhar Ahmad Khan. He revealed that the authorities had decided to complete the mini-dams by the end of the fiscal year. Once finished, they are expected to add to the water capacity of the Rawalpindi division and help improve water supply to the city. In addition, the local administration has plans to use the new reservoirs to develop fish farms and supply water to the surrounding populations, particularly the farming community.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wasa-increases-water-tariff-rawalpindi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WASA increases water tariff in Rawalpindi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The reservoirs and mini-dams are being built in order to help conserve the large amounts of water that are usually wasted in the Potohar region during the annual rains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rawalpindi: The irrigation department has made the decision to construct 40 mini-dams and 50 reservoirs in order to conserve the water supply along the China Pakistan Economic Corridor\u2019s (CPEC) Western corridor \u2013 a news source reported. Read:\u00a0Replacement of Rawalpindi&#8217;s ageing water pipelines recommended These details were shared by Director Soil Conservation Iftikhar Ahmad Khan. He revealed that the authorities had decided to complete the mini-dams by the end of the fiscal year. Once finished, they are expected to add to the water capacity of the Rawalpindi division and help improve water supply to the city. In addition, the local administration has plans to use the new reservoirs to develop fish farms and supply water to the surrounding populations, particularly the farming community. Read:\u00a0WASA increases water tariff in Rawalpindi The reservoirs and mini-dams are being built in order to help conserve the large amounts of water that are usually wasted in the Potohar region during the annual rains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":43596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20385],"tags":[14129],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-development-projects","8":"tag-rawalpindi-to-have-40-new-mini-dams","9":"cat-20385-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rawalpindi to have 40 new mini-dams - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rawalpindi: The irrigation department has made the decision to construct 40 mini-dams and 50 reservoirs in order to conserve the water supply along the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/rawalpindi-to-have-40-new-mini-dams.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rawalpindi to have 40 new mini-dams - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rawalpindi: The irrigation department has made the decision to construct 40 mini-dams and 50 reservoirs in order to conserve the water supply along the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/rawalpindi-to-have-40-new-mini-dams.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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