Water Management

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Water Management

On Farm Water Management (OFWM) Program was initiated during 1976-77 to implement a water conservation strategy at the farm level. It mainly comprises of controlling conveyance losses in distribution network and increasing application efficiency of crop irrigation. Improvement of community watercourses has remained key component of all OFWM projects implemented with assistance of the World Bank, USAID, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Overseas Economic Corporation Fund (OECF) now Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), Asian Development Bank (ADB) etc. Implementation of various OFWM schemes has proved to be very effective and beneficial approach. On Farm Water Management technologies package has, therefore, been widely accepted by the farmers, planners, and policy makers at national as well as international level. About 22,971 watercourses out of 58,110 watercourses had been improved under different projects in the Punjab until 2003 when it was decided to accelerate the pace of watercourse improvement.


Accordingly, National Program for Improvement of Watercourses was launched during 2003-04 which is under implementation throughout the country. Its Punjab component has an outlay of Rs. 28,223.50 million for improvement of 28,000 watercourses in irrigated areas and development/improvement of 2,000 irrigation schemes in barani tracts of the province. Original project gestation period was from 2004-05 to 2007-08 and the federal government has extended the project period for two more years (2008-09 to 2009-10). Under the said program, 15,128 watercourses have been improved and 3,711 irrigation schemes have been installed by the year 2008-09.


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[The Manager]

As per your explination it is very true th\t Punjab has been beniftd frm the schemes launched by the Governament.. Bt wht abt the other provinces? Plz if u have any information share it...
After all thanks fr the information on statistical basis.

[zash]

On Farm Water Management Project (OFWMP) was a national program. It was not limited to Punjab only rather was implemented in other provinces as well. As the authority was given to provinces for effective implementation, Punjab did it quite successfuly than other provinces.
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Water inflow in the rivers rises

The water inflows in the four live rivers have crossed 0.110 million cusecs mark with the rising temperature in the upper areas of country. According to the 15th April river flows and reservoirs level report of Water and Power Development Authority, 34400 cusecs water is flowing in Tarbela dam on river Indus, 27,700 cusecs water in river Kabul at Nowshera, 35,500 cusecs in river Jhelum at Mangla dam and 15,500 cusecs in river Chenab at Marala headworks.

The Indus River System Authority (Irsa) is releasing 0.1 million cusecs water into the irrigation system for generation of over 2600 MW hydel electricity and sowing of Kharif crops including cotton, rice, sugarcane and maize. Of the combined flow of river Indus and Kabul downstream Nowshera, 63,600 cusecs water is pouring into Jinnah Barrage, 49,500 cusecs into Chashma barrage, 30,200 cusecs into Taunsa barrage, 26,500 cusecs into Guddu barrage, 23,300 cusecs into Sukkur barrage and 4353 cusecs into Kotri barrage. In order to produce optimum hydel electricity, Irsa has not yet started filling the largest reservoir of the country Tarbela dam on river Indus, however, Mangla dam has risen 36 ft above dead level of 1040 with a storage of 0.254 MAF water.