Nature Lover's Paradise's video: Sunset Drive at Mangla Dam s Dike Road - The Largest Water Reservoir in Pakistan in 4K Ultra HD

As a consequence of partition of the Indo-Pakistan Sub-Continent in 1947, India and Pakistan became two independent sovereign states. The Irrigation System which existed at the time of partition in 1947 was divided between the two countries without any regards to the irrigation boundaries resulting in an international water dispute which was resolved by signing of the Indus Water Treaty in 1960 under the aegis of World Bank. The Treaty assigned three Eastern rivers (Ravi, Beas and Sutlej) to India and three Western rivers (Indus, Jhelum & Chenab) to Pakistan. It also provided construction of replacement works called Indus Basin Project (IBP) to compensate for perpetual loss of Eastern river's water. The works proposed under the Treaty included two multipurpose dams from one of which is Mangla Dam on Jhelum river having the provision of Power Generation. Mangla Dam Project was actually conceived in 1950's as a multipurpose project to be constructed at a place called Mangla on river Jhelum located about 30 km upstream of Jhelum city. The initial investigation & its feasibility studies were completed in 1958. Later on the project was included in the Indus Basin Project. The construction of Mangla Dam was started in 1962 and completed in 1967 with live water storage capacity of 5.88 million acre-feet (MAF), which reduced to 4.6 MAF till 2004 due to the natural phenomenon of sedimentation. Subsequently, the Mangla Dam Raising Project was initiated in 2004 with a view to maximizing the water potential of River Jhelum. The project was substantially completed in December 2009, increasing the water storage capacity of the Mangla Reservoir to 7.4 MAF from 4.6 MAF with an addition of 2.88 MAF. Resultantly, Mangla Dam surpassed the water storage capacity of Tarbela Dam and became the largest water reservoir in the country. Social Media Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/natureloversparadise/