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Posts published in “Day: February 2, 2010

Filling of Mangla, hydropower projects in jeopardy: The Dawn, Feb 2

By Khaleeq Kiani ISLAMABAD: The filling of Mangla Dam’s additional 2.33 MAF (million acre feet) storage capacity built at a cost of more than Rs90 billion and construction of cheap hydropower projects of about 4,500MW are in jeopardy because of non-implementation of the dam’s up-raising agreement and three provinces’ opposition to allocation of water for Azad Kashmir. Background discussions with government officials and documents available with Dawn suggest that the controversy has resulted in cancellation…