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Farva Malik
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Sir Usman

[WATER RESOURCES &

IRRIGATION
ENGINEERING]

Contents
1

Irrigation............................................................................................................... 2
1.1

Ancient Irrigation: Egypt and the Nile............................................................2

1.2

Management.................................................................................................. 2

1.3

Mesopotamia: Canals on the Plain.................................................................4

1.4

Development................................................................................................. 5

1.5

The Indus Basin.............................................................................................. 5

1.6

History........................................................................................................... 5

Salient Features of Barrages:............................................................................... 7

Salient Features of Off Taking Canals.................................................................12

1 Irrigation
It is the artificial application of water to the land or soil. It is used to assist in the growing
of agricultural crops, maintenance of landscapes, and revegetation of disturbed soils in dry areas
and during periods of inadequate rainfall.

1.1 Ancient Irrigation: Egypt and the Nile

Ancient irrigation styles depended very much on the physical geography and geology of the area,
and the engineering skills available. Four different styles of irrigation were developed very early
in agricultural history. All irrigation systems depend on taking water from natural sources and
diverting it to artificial channels or ponds where it is applied to crops.
Records have shown that Egyptians were the first to use irrigation along the Nile River about
5000B.C, and was accomplished through digging a series of canals and bridges. The device used
for lifting water from steams to higher lying fields was the Egyptian Shaddof. Artificial irrigation
was considered an Egyptian achievement that required the people and government's cooperation
and persistence.
At first, Egyptian agriculture along the Nile was based on growing winter crops after the annual
floods had subsided. Egyptian irrigation was based on several facts. There was only one water
source (the river) which was too powerful to control. Irrigation works therefore had to be passive
in construction, and built relatively high along the river bank so that they dealt only with the
peak of the flood. The river valley is flat-floored, but narrow and steep-sided, never more than 25
km wide until it reaches the Delta below Cairo. Irrigation schemes could therefore not carry
water any great distance away from the river.
The ancient Egyptians practiced a form of water management called basin irrigation, built large
flat-bottomed basins for growing crops along the river banks, and simple sluices that diverted
water into them at the peak of the flood. It was easy in engineering terms, if not in labor, to
arrange for good water flow through several basins in succession, controlled by simple gates.
They constructed a network of earthen banks, some parallel to the river and some perpendicular
to it, that formed basins of various sizes. Regulated sluices would direct floodwater into a basin,
where it would sit for a month or so until the soil was saturated. Then the remaining water would
be drained off to a basin down-gradient or to a nearby canal, and the farmers of the drained plot
would plant their crops.

1.2 Management
Egyptians began practicing some form of water management for agriculture about 5,000 years
ago. Neither was salinization a problem. There was always plenty of water. The summer water

table remained at least 3-4 meters below the surface in most basins, so salts never built up in the
soil; and the flow in the canals and ditches was strong enough to avoid silting. And the month or
so of inundation prior to planting pushed whatever salts had accumulated in the upper soil layers
down below the root zone. With salt buildup naturally checked and fertility constantly restored, ,
(Silt that settled in the basins was beneficial in two ways: it made the floors of the basins evenly
flat, and it brought a lot of nutrients with each year's flood.) Ditches and canals were short, and
the typical irrigation scheme was very local. Egyptian agriculturists enjoyed not only a
productive system, but a sustainable one.
For nearly 1,500 years Egyptian farmers cultivated about 800,000 hectares under this system of
basin irrigation. This technology enabled farmers to irrigate crops near the river banks and canals
during the dry summer. This would have allowed the cultivated area to expand by 10-15 percent.
A similar increase might have been afforded by the waterwheel, introduced sometime after 325
BC. So by the time Egypt had become a breadbasket for the Roman Empire, some 1 million
hectares of land were effectively under cultivation in the course of a year.
The design of the irrigation system depended critically on knowing in advance the height of the
annual flood, and the Egyptians developed a system of "Nilometers" at various points along the
valley. Rapid communication and early warning of the height of the flood as it rolled
downstream from the south made a great difference to the size of the harvest. Herodotus wrote
that the Egyptians "get their harvests with less labor than anyone else in the world."
Early irrigation was rather local and primitive, and food was not stored efficiently, so the early
civilizations were vulnerable to long-term fluctuations in the Nile floods. There was no
significant attempt at water storage: since all the water came from the Nile, any storage would
have meant damming the river, which was far beyond the capability of the ancient Egyptians.
Therefore their irrigation system was passive, and early Egyptian civilization depended largely
on one winter crop per year. After it was harvested in the spring, the land lay fallow until after
the next flood. Only in a few places with very wet soil was there any chance of a second crop,
and among these areas were Abydos, Memphis, and Thebes, the great centers of ancient Egyptian
civilization. They lay along the river, upstream from the Delta.
Overall, Egypt's system of basin irrigation proved inherently more stable from an ecological,
political, social, and institutional perspective than that of any other irrigation-based society in
human history. Fundamentally, the system was an enhancement of the natural hydrological
patterns of the Nile River, not a wholesale transformation of them. Although it was not able to
guard against large losses of human life from famine when the Nile flood failed, the system
sustained an advanced civilization through numerous political upheavals and other destabilizing
events over some 5,000 years. No other place on Earth has been in continuous cultivation for so
long.

1.3 Mesopotamia: Canals on the Plain

Irrigation has been an important base for agriculture in Mesopotamia (what is now Iraq and part
of Iran) for 6000 years. But Mesopotamia is very different from Egypt. Mesopotamia has low
rainfall, and is supplied with surface water by only two major rivers, the Tigris and the
Euphrates. Although they are much smaller than of the Nile, they have much more dramatic
spring floods, from snowmelt in the highlands of Anatolia, and they carry more silt. Furthermore,
the plains of Mesopotamia are very flat, and poorly drained, so that the region has always had
persistent problems with poor soil, drought, catastrophic flooding, silting, and soil salinity.
Mesopotamia was known as the land between two rivers, the Tigris to the north and the
Euphrates to the south. Irrigation was extremely vital to Mesopotamia because rains were
seasonal in this area, which meant that the land flooded in the winter and spring and water was
scarce at other times. Farming in the region depended on irrigation from the Tigris and Euphrates
Rivers.
The Sumerians in southern Mesopotamia built city walls and temples and dug canals that were
the worlds first engineering works.
Canals and irrigation ditches were built for redirecting the water to the fields. Regulators were
then used to raise and lower the level of water in canals and ditches so that water could be used
by the farmers.
The plains of southern Mesopotamia have wonderfully rich soils, deposited by the rivers Tigris
and Euphrates over thousands of years. Watered by means of irrigation, they turned into highly
productive farm land, able to sustain large populations.
Mesopotamian engineers had to worry about water storage and flood control as well as irrigation.
Silt built up quickly in the canals, threatening to choke them. This could be overcome by
constant dredging as long as organization and manpower were available. The other problem was
more insidious, and could not be overcome by the engineering available at the time. It was
difficult to drain water off the fields, and there was always a tendency for salt to build up in the
soil.
Although the plain of Mesopotamia is very flat, the bed of the Euphrates is higher than that of
the Tigris; in fact, Euphrates floods sometimes found their way across country into the Tigris.
Engineers used this gradient as soon as irrigation schemes became large enough, using the
Euphrates water as the supply, and the Tigris channel as a drain.

Mesopotamia has had times of successful irrigation, and times of silt and salinity crises: the latter
around 2000 BC, 1100 BC, and after 1200 AD. The first crisis may have been caused by water
politics. In any irrigation system, the farmers most downstream are those most likely to be short
of water in a dry year, or to receive the most polluted water. In Sumeria, the city of Lagash was
rather far downstream in the canal system based on the Euphrates. Apparently Entemanna of
Lagash decided that he would instead cut a canal to tap Tigris water, but the addition of poorquality water led to rapid salinization of the soil.

1.4 Development
In about 6000 BC, irrigation began to be practised in the foothills of the Zagros mountains, very
near southern Mesopotamia. Communities of farmers dug tanks and reservoirs to store water, and
ditches to lead it to the fields throughout the growing season. In this way they were able to water
their fields over a long period of time, increasing their yield of crops.
The techniques learnt here enabled farmers to settle in the dry southern Mesopotamian plains. By
creating irrigation systems, they were able to feed their crops with water well beyond the brief
rainy season.

1.5 The Indus Basin

In terms of water usage in Pakistan, domestic use account for around two per cent of total
water usage, industrial about the same and agriculture for close to 97 per cent, a staggering figure
that is well above the global average of about 70 per cent. The Indus Basin is a very developed
watershed in that it has a lot of storage and management infrastructure. The schematic diagram
below shows the major rivers, canals, dams and other works of the Indus Basin irrigation system.
Tarbela, Mangla and Chashma are the three primary reservoirs on this system. Tarbela is the first
regulation device on the Indus and Pakistans largest storage device with 10.93 billion
cubic meters of storage capacity.
Water from the Indus empties onto the plains through regulatory structures known as rimstations.
About 173 billion cubic metres pass through the rim stations, about 128 billion cubic metres of
which is diverted for irrigation. But this figure is still insufficient to meet agricultural irrigation
requirements, and the shortfall of about 40 per cent is made up from groundwater pumping. The
associated canal network is massive, with 43,561 kilometres of canals, 18,884kilometres of
seepage/storm water drains and 12,612 kilometres of tile drains, mostly in the Indus Plain
provinces of Punjab and
Sindh. This system of reservoirs and canals forms the basisof the Indus Basin irrigation system
and is thus absolutely essential to agriculture.

1.6 History

The first canals were constructed some five or six centuries ago and extended under the Mughal
Emperors. The early canals were inundation channels and delivered water to the fields when
rivers were in high flow during the summer. They tended to be unpredictable in operation and
subjected both to frequent breaches and serious siltation problems.
The next stage in the evaluation of the Irrigation System was construction of perennial canal
shaving permanent headworks. These headworks either did not extend across the entire stream
or allowed the floods to pass over their crests. The first evidence of perennial irrigation on any
of the Indus rivers dates back to early seventeenth century when a 80 Km long canal was
constructed by the Mughal Emperor Jahangir (reigned 1605-27) to bring water from the
right bank of the Ravi to the pleasure gardens of Sheikhupura near Lahore. The irrigation system
which exists today was stated in the nineteenth century under the British administration. In the
early 19th century, there were numerous inundation canals leading from the Indus River and its
tributaries.
The more important of these were the Upper and Lower Sutlej canals, the Shahpur canals, the
Chenab canals and the Indus canals in Punjab and Bahawalpur. In the Sindh, where the Indus
River flows more or less on a ridge, conditions were particularly favorable for inundation canals.
Among Sindhs 19th century canals were the Desert, the Begari, the Sukkur, the Fuleli, the
Pinyari and the Kalri canals
From the middle of the 19th century onwards, a large number of inundation canals were
remodelled and fitted with permanent headworks and new canals with weir controlled supply
were constructed for the Sindh, Punjab and NWFP areas. The first permanent headworks
constructed in 1887 was the Marala Barrage, which started supplying water to the Upper Chenab
Canal in 1915. In 1889, a project was prepared for the irrigation of part of the Rechna Doab. The
project envisaged the diversion of the Chenab waters by means of a weir at Khanki. The project
was sanctioned in 1890 and the Chenab Canal, now called the Lower Chenab Canal, was opened
in 1892.
A similar scheme was sanctioned for the irrigation of the area between the Chenab and the
Jhelum (Chaj Doab) from a weir at Rasul on the Jhelum River. Construction was started in
1897and the Jhelum Canal, now called the Lower Jhelum Canal was opened in 1901.After World
War-I, the Sukkur Barrage Project, the first barrage constructed on the Indus River was started in
1923 and was commissioned to irrigation in 1932. During 1921 the Sutlej Valley Project was
sanctioned for the development of the Punjab, Bikaner (now in India) and Bahawalpur states
areas. The Project consisting of four (4) weirs on the Sutlej River at Ferozepur, Sulemanki, Islam
and Panjnad and 11 canals were completed by 1933.The Trimmu Barrage, located below the
junction of the Jhelum and the Chenab Rivers was started in 1837 and completed in 1939, was
the last barrage completed prior to World War II. At the time of independence the Kalabagh
Barrage (Jinnah), Kotri Barrage on the Indus River and the Bhakra Dam in India on the Sutlej
River were under construction

2 Salient Features of Barrages:

Barrages Over Indus R iver
Tounsa Barrage
Year of Completion: The Taunsa Barrage was completed in 1958
Location: Taunsa Barrage is located 20 km southeast of Taunsa Sharif city on the Indus River in
the Punjab province of Pakistan
Design Discharge: 750000 cusecs
Length: 4346 feet
No. Of Bays: 53
No. Of Under sluices: 12
Crest Level: 6
Off Taking Canals: 4
Tarbela Dam
Year of Completion: The dam was completed in 1976
Location: Located about 50km North West of Islamabad at Tarbela in Swabi, shortly located at
the point from where the District Haripur, in hazara division starts.
Design Discharge: The main spillway has a discharge capacity of 18,406 cubic metres per second
(650,000 cu ft/s) and the auxiliary spillway, 24,070 cubic metres per second (850,000 cu ft/s).
Length: 2,743.2 metres (9,000 ft)
Ghazi Barotha Barrage
Year of Completion: 2004
Location: Indus River
Design Discharge: 500000 cusecs
Length: 170560 feet
Off Taking Canals: 1
Jinnah Barrage
Year of Completion: 1946
Location: Situated at Kalabagh in Mianwali District of the north-west Punjab province,
bordering the Province on the Indus River.

Design Discharge: 950000 cusecs

Length: 3360 feet
No. Of Bays: 42
Off Taking Canals: 1

Chashma Barrage
Year of Completion: The project was built between 1967 and 1971.
Location: Chashma Barrage wetland site is located Indus Monsoon Forest, some 25 km
southwest of Mianwali, Punjab, Pakistan.
Design Discharge: 1176000 cusecs
Length: 3556 feet
No. Of Bays: 52
No. Of Under sluices: 11
Off Taking Canals: 2
Guddu Barrage
Year of Completion: The barrage was completed in 1962.
Location: Guddu Barrage is a barrage across river Indus, near Kashmore in Pakistan.
Design Discharge: 1.2 million cubic feet per second (34,000 m/s) / 1200000cusecs
Length: 3840 feet
No. Of Bays: 64 bays
No. Of Under sluices: 2
Crest Level: 236
Off Taking Canals: 5
Sukkhur Barrage
Year of Completion: 1932
Location & River on which its constructed: Near Sukkur, Indus river
Design Discharge: 1.5 million cusecs
Off Taking Canals: 7
Length: 4725 ft
No. of bays: 66
No. of under Sluices: 2
Crest level: 177.0 S.P.D
Kotri Barrage
Year of Completion: 1955
Location: Located southeast of Karachi near Hyderabad

Design Discharge: 750000 cusecs

Length: 915 metres (3,000 ft) long
No. Of Bays: 44
Crest Level: 48 S.P.D
Off Taking Canals : 4

Barrages Over Jhelum River

Mangla Dam
Year of Completion: It was constructed in 1967
Location: Located at the Jhelum River, about 67 miles (100 km) south-east of the Pakistani
capital, Islamabad in[[dadyal Mirpur]] district of Azad Kashmir, Pakistan.
Design Discharge: 1.01 million cusecs
Length: 10,300 feet
Off Taking Canals: 1
Rasool Barrage
Year of Completion: It was constructed in 1968
Location: is located on the Jehlum River, 4 km downstream of the Rasul Weir and 72 km from
the Mangla Dam.
Design Discharge: 24070 cubic meter per second/876000 cusecs
Length: 3,209 feet
No. Of Bays: 42
No. Of Under sluices: 6
Crest Level: 703 S.P.D
Off Taking Canals: 2

Barrages Over Sutlej River

Sulemanki Barrage
Year of Completion: 1927
Location: Sutlej River
Design Discharge: 309000 cusecs
Length: 2220 feet
No. Of Bays: 24
No. Of Under sluices: 16

Crest Level: 560 S.P.D

Off Taking Canals: 3
Islam Barrage
Year of Completion: 1927
Location: Sutlej River
Design Discharge: 300000 cusecs
Length: 1650 feet
No. Of Bays: 29
No. Of Under sluices: 4
Crest Level: 435.5 S.P.D
Off Taking Canals: 2
Mailsi Siphon
Year of Completion: 1965
Location: This siphon is located on Sutlej River near Mailsi
Design Discharge: 286 cumecs/429000 cusecs
Length: 1,601feet
No. Of Bays: 24
Crest Level: 415.5 S.P.D

Barrages Over Chenab River

Maralla Head Works
Year of Completion: Marala Barrage was built across the river in 1968.
Location: The Marala headworks is situated at the Chenab River near the city of Sialkot Punjab.
Design Discharge: 1.1 million ft/s (31,000 m/s)
Length: 4,472 feet
No. Of Bays: 66
No. Of Under sluices: 13
Crest Level: 800 S.P.D
Off Taking Canals: 2
Khanki Head Works
Year of Completion: It was built in 1889
Location: It is present at river Chenab in Gujrat District.
Design Discharge: 750000 cusecs
Length: 4000 feet

No. Of Bays: 48
No. Of Under sluices: 6
Crest Level: 726.5-727 S.P.D
Off Taking Canals: 1

Qadirabad Barrage
Year of Completion: 1967
Location: Located on the river Chenab in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is lies in
Phalia Tehsil of Mandi Bahauddin District.
Design Discharge: 900000 cusecs
Length: 3,373 feet
No. Of Bays: 50
No. Of Under sluices: 5
Crest Level: 684.5 S.P.D
Off Taking Canals: 1
Trimmu Barrage
Year of Completion: 1939
Location: It is situated some 25 km away from the city of Jhang westwars, at the famous town
of Atharan Hazari where there is the confluence of rivers Chenab and Jhelum.
Design Discharge: 645000 cusecs
Length: 3025 feet
No. Of Bays: 37
No of Left Under SluicePortion: 5
No of Right Under Sluice Portion: 6
Crest Level: Crest Level of Main Weir 477.50,
Crest Level of Under Sluice: 472.00
Off Taking Canals: 3
Punjnad Barrage
Year of Completion: 1929
Location: Chenab River
Design Discharge: 700000 cusecs
Length: 2856 feet
No. Of Bays: 47
Crest Level: 325 S.P.D
Off Taking Canals: 2

Barrages Over R iver Rav i

Balloki Barrage
Year of Completion: 1914
Location: River Ravi
Design Discharge: 140000 cusecs
Length: 1644 feet
No. Of Bays: 35
Crest level: 625.5 S.P.D
Off Taking Canals: 2
Sidhnai Barrage
Year of Completion: 1965
Location: Located on Ravi River
Design Discharge: 167000 cusecs
Length: 712 feet
No. Of Bays: 15
No. Of Under sluices: 4
Crest Level: 454 S.P.D
Off Taking Canals: 2

3 Salient Features of Off Taking Canals

RAVI RIVER
Balloki Barrage
Balloki-Sulemanki Link Canal
Design Discharge: 6,500 cusecs
Length of Canal: 39 miles
Lower Bari Duab Canal
Location: Multan
Design Discharge: Head discharge is 9292 cusecs and tail discharge is 1000 cusecs
Length of Canal: 132.14 miles
Area to Be Irrigated: Gross area is 2130937 and culturable area is 1845974

Sidhnai Barrage
Sidhnai-Mailsi Bahawal Link Canal
Location: Multan
Design Discharge: 10,100 cusecs
Length of Canal: 4.132 miles
Area to Be Irrigated: Gross area is 4071 and culturable area is 3724
Sidhnai Canal
CHENAB RIVER
Maralla Barrage
Upper Chenab Canal
Location: Lahore Zone
Design Discharge: Head discharge is 16850 cusecs and tail discharge is 11373 cusecs
Length of Canal: 26.659 miles
Area to Be Irrigated: Gross area is 19600 and culturable area is 12449
Maralla Ravi Link Canal
Location: Lahore Zone
Design Discharge: Head discharge is 22000 cusecs and tail discharge is 20000 cusecs
Length of Canal: 63.463 miles
Area to Be Irrigated: Gross area is 165598 and culturable area is 154987
BRBD Link Canal (Bambawala-Ravi-Bedian-Dipalpur Canal)
Location: Lahore Zone
Design Discharge: Head discharge is 7260 cusecs and tail discharge is 2380 cusecs
Length of Canal: 107.40 miles
Khanki Headworks
Lower Chenab Canal (LCC)
Location: Faisalabad Zone
Design Discharge: Head discharge is 8143 cusecs
Length of Canal: 40.058 miles
Area to Be Irrigated: Gross area is 3700000 and culturable area is 3400000
Qadirabad Barrage

Qadirabad-Balloki Link Canal

Location: Hafizabad Zone
Design Discharge: 18,600 cusecs
Length of Canal: 79.483 miles

Trimmu Barrage
Rangpur CanalTrimmu-Sidhnai Link Canal
Location: (Sidhnai)Multan
Design Discharge: Head discharge is 12500cusecs and tail discharge is 10000 cusecs
Length of Canal: 44 miles
Haveli Canal
Punjnad Barrage
Punjnad Canal
Location: Bahawalpur
Design Discharge: Head discharge is 10484 cusecs and tail discharge is 4274 cusecs
Length of Canal: 38 miles
Area to Be Irrigated: Gross area is 1293941 and culturable area is 1186537
Abbasia Canal
Location: Bahawalpur
Design Discharge: Head discharge is 1394 cusecs and tail discharge is 587 cusecs
Length of Canal: 44.915 miles
Area to Be Irrigated: Gross area is 117663 and culturable area is 111333
SUTLEJ RIVER
Sulemanki Barrage
Pakpatan Canal
Location: Multan
Design Discharge: Head discharge is 5508 cusecs and tail discharge is 24 cusecs

Length of Canal: 113.47 miles

Area to Be Irrigated: Gross area is 1046326 and culturable area is 961158
Eastern Sadqiya Canal
Location: Multan
Design Discharge: Head discharge is 6820 cusecs and tail discharge is 5106 cusecs
Length of Canal: 49 miles
Area to Be Irrigated: Gross area is 616035 and culturable area is 547472
Fordwah Canal
Location: Multan
Design Discharge: Head discharge is 3447 cusecs and tail discharge is 2993 cusecs
Length of Canal: 8.97 miles
Area to Be Irrigated: Gross area is 465024 and culturable area is 430112
Islam Barrage
Qasim Canal
Location: Multan
Design Discharge: Head discharge is 483.00 cusecs and tail discharge is 61 cusecs
Length of Canal: 7.43 miles
Area to Be Irrigated: Gross area is 55804 and culturable area is 52797
Bahawal Canal
Location: Multan
Design Discharge: Head discharge is 500 cusecs and tail discharge is 386 cusecs
Length of Canal: 2.40 miles
Area to Be Irrigated: Gross area is 57469and culturable area is 52023
Mailsi Siphon
Sidhnai-Mailsi Bahawal Link Canal
Location: (Baghdad) Bahawalpur
Design Discharge: Head discharge is 5338 cusecs and tail discharge is 5123 cusecs
Length of Canal: 30.40 miles
Area to Be Irrigated: Gross area is 1229174 and culturable area is 1048805
JHELUM RIVER

Mangla Dam
Upper Jhelum Canal
Year of Completion: 1915
Length of Canal: 730.8 miles

Rasool Barrage
Rasool Qadirabad Link Canal
Location: It is a main canal located in Rasul Division.
Design Discharge: 19,000 cusecs
Length of Canal: 30 miles
Lower Jhelum Canal
Year of Completion: 1901
Location: It is a main canal located in Rasul Division.
Design Discharge: Its authorized head discharge is 5500.00.Its authorized tail discharge is
3705.00
Length of Canal: 39.366 miles
Area to Be Irrigated: Gross command area is 1728349.00.Its Culturable command area is
1485776.00

INDUS RIVER
Tarbela Dam
Ghazi Barrage
Ghazi Barotha Power Channel
Jinnah Barrage
Thal Canal
The amount of water that it carries is 2.534 MAF. It is divided into 2 different divisions.
Thal canal main line lower

Year of Completion: 1947

Location: It is a main canal located in bhakkar.
Design Discharge: 4100
Length of Canal: 100.50 miles
Gross Area: 3534
Culturable Command Area : 2966

Thal canal main line upper

Year of Completion: 1947
Location: It is a main canal located in kalabagh. It is categorized in the zone of sarghodha.
Design Discharge: 9000
Length of Canal: 100.50 miles
Gross Area: 2460861
Culturable Command Area: 2115931
Chashma Barrage
Chashma Right Bank Canal (CRBC)
Design Discharge: 2500 cusecs
Length of Canal: 71 miles
Area to Be Irrigated: 261,000 acres
Chashma Jhelum Link Canal
Design Discharge: 21,700 cusecs
Length of Canal: 63 miles
Taunsa Barrage
Kachi Canal (Under Construction)
Location: Punjab:MuzaffarGarh, D.G.Khan, Rajanpur Distts
Balochistan: Dera Bugti, Naseerabad, Bolan,JhalMagsi Districts
Length: 500Km (300Km Lined in Punjab 200Km Unlined in Balochistan)
Capacity: 6000 Cusecs
Distributaries &Minors 2000KM, 713000 Acres
Command Area: PHASE-I: 102,000 CCA
PHASE-II: 267,000 CCA
PHASE-III: 344,000 CCA

Dera Ghazi Khan Canal (DGKCanal)

Location: It is a main canal located in D.G Khan
Design Discharge: Head discharge is 8900 and tail discharge is 5514
Length of Canal: 69.046 miles
Area to Be Irrigated: Gross area is 947874 and cultural command area is 901984

Taunsa Punjnad Canal (TP Canal)

Location: DG Khan (Lashari)
Design Discharge: Head discharge 1200
Length of Canal: 38.20 miles
Area to Be Irrigated: Gross area is 2150000 and cultural command area is 2000000
Muzaffargarh Link Canal
Location: Muzaffargarh Zone
Design Discharge: Head discharge is 8901 and tail discharge is 2776
Length of Canal: 74.14 miles
Area to Be Irrigated: Gross area is 906490 and cultural command area is 838380
Guddu Barrage
Pat Feeder
Desert Feeder
Design Discharge: 419 cumecs
Area to Be Irrigated: 185000 acres
Begari Sindh Feeder
Design Discharge: 372 cumecs
Ghotki Canal
Design Discharge: 238 cumecs
Raine Canal

Sukkhur Barrage
Left side canals

Nara Canal
Mirwah Canal
Rohri Canal
Abul Wah

Right side canals are

Dadu Canal
Rice Canal
Khirthar Canal

Kotri Barrage
Kotri Baghar Feeder
Design Discharge: 255 cumecs
Phuleli
Design Discharge: 391 cumecs
Pinjari
Design Discharge: 408 cumecs
Akram Wah
Design Discharge: 116 cumecs