{"id":87821,"date":"2022-08-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=87821"},"modified":"2022-08-05T12:30:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T07:30:13","slug":"64-small-dams-water-sindh-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/64-small-dams-water-sindh-minister.html","title":{"rendered":"64 small dams in progress to save precious water resources: Sindh Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Karachi: Sindh Irrigation Minister Jam Khan Shoro on Wednesday (August 3) informed the Sindh Assembly that there are currently 64 dams under construction in the province, news sources reported. The dams are part of the Sindh government&#8217;s project to save precious water resources in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/federal-27-dams-balochistan-psdp.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"85124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Federal govt completes 27 small dams in Balochistan under PSDP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reportedly, during a question and answer session in assembly, the minister said the government has completed 116 small dams in various districts. The remaining 64 dams will be completed by next year, ensuring enough water capacity for domestic and agricultural use. He said that the government is also interested in releasing fresh water downstream into the Kotri Barrage to halt seawater intrusion into arable land that has already damaged a vast area.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wapda-small-medium-dams.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"85932\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WAPDA fast tracks development of small, medium dams in Pakistan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is important to mention that Sindh has recently faced severe drought-like conditions and a lowering of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wapda-small-medium-dams.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"85932\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">underground water levels.<\/a> The province has launched several projects in collaboration with the federal government and international donors like the World Bank (WB) to carry out the projects to address water scarcity. This also includes projects like the Karachi-IV (K-IV) water channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: Sindh Irrigation Minister Jam Khan Shoro on Wednesday (August 3) informed the Sindh Assembly that there are currently 64 dams under construction in the province, news sources reported. The dams are part of the Sindh government&#8217;s project to save precious water resources in the country.\u00a0 Read: Federal govt completes 27 small dams in Balochistan under PSDP Reportedly, during a question and answer session in assembly, the minister said the government has completed 116 small dams in various districts. The remaining 64 dams will be completed by next year, ensuring enough water capacity for domestic and agricultural use. He said that the government is also interested in releasing fresh water downstream into the Kotri Barrage to halt seawater intrusion into arable land that has already damaged a vast area.\u00a0 Read: WAPDA fast tracks development of small, medium dams in Pakistan It is important to mention that Sindh has recently faced severe drought-like conditions and a lowering of underground water levels. The province has launched several projects in collaboration with the federal government and international donors like the World Bank (WB) to carry out the projects to address water scarcity. This also includes projects like the Karachi-IV (K-IV) water channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":62629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15013],"tags":[53459,53460,53461],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-construction","8":"tag-64-small-dams-in-progress-to-save-precious-water-resources-sindh-minister","9":"tag-small-dams-sindh","10":"tag-underground-water-sources","11":"cat-15013-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>64 small dams in progress to save precious water in Sindh- Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Karachi: Sindh Irrigation Minister Jam Khan Shoro on Wednesday (August 3) informed the Sindh Assembly that there are currently 64 dams under construction\" \/>\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\/64-small-dams-water-sindh-minister.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"64 small dams in progress to save precious water in Sindh- Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Karachi: Sindh Irrigation Minister Jam Khan Shoro on Wednesday (August 3) informed the Sindh Assembly that there are currently 64 dams under construction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/64-small-dams-water-sindh-minister.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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