Pakistan – Kurram Tangi Integrated Water Resources Development Project

The stekaholder engagement & community meeting of the Kurram Tangi Integrated Water Resources Development project was held in Bannu, Pakistan. Main project components include a 98-meter-high concrete faced rockfill dam located across the Kurram River in North Waziristan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Province, three hydroelectric powerhouses with combined installed capacity of 65MW, two diversion weirs, Thal irrigation canal and remodeling of the existing Civil/Kankot and Marwat/Right Bank irrigation canals. Combined, these canals were envisaged to cover a total cultivable command area of 140,000 ha. The project is financed by the Asian Development Bank.