Water Resources | MCQs

Explanation

The Khanpur Dam is located on the Haro River in Pakistan.

The dam is situated near the city of Khanpur, in the province of Punjab.

It was completed in 1983.

The dam is used for irrigation, water supply, and hydroelectric power generation.

Explanation

There are a total of five Rivers in Punjab

Explanation

• The Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) is a water-distribution treaty between India and Pakistan.

• Indus Waters Treaty brokered by the World Bank

• It was signed in Karachi on 19 September 1960
• Sighed by Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistani President Ayub Khan.
• the following 3 rivers were given to Pakistan: Indus, Jhelum and Chenab  
• the following 3 rivers were given to India: Sutlej, Beas, Ravi.

Explanation

The Kabul River empties into the Indus River near Attock, Pakistan.

It is the main river in eastern Afghanistan and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

Explanation

Tarbela Dam  is the largest earth-filled dam in the world

It is located in the Haripur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

it is 485 feet (148 m) high above the Indus riverbed.

Its construction began in 1968

it was Completed in 1976

Construction was undertaken by the Italian firm Salini Impregilo.

Explanation

Warsak Dam is known as the smallest dam in Pakistan.

This dam finished under the access of the Colombo Plan in two phases

Warsak Dam is a mass concrete gravity dam located on the Kabul River in the Valley of Peshawar

Warsak Dam is built on the Kabul river

Construction began 1949

Opened: 1960

Height: 76 m

Length: 140.2 m (460 ft)

Warsak Dam was completed under the Colombo Plan in two phases and financed by the Canadian Government. 

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Largest dam of Pakistan is the Tarbela Dam

Explanation

Always means ہر وقت یا ہر موقع پر

Never means کسی وقت نہیں

Explanation

The Indus Waters Treaty was signed in 1960 after nine years of negotiations between India and Pakistan with the help of the World Bank

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The Treaty allocates the Western Rivers (Indus, Jhelum, Chenab) to Pakistan

and the Eastern Rivers (Ravi, Beas, Sutlej) to India

Indus Waters Treaty, treaty, signed on September 19, 1960, between India and Pakistan

Indus Water Treaty between India and Pakistan was brokered by World Bank

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The Treaty was signed at Karachi by Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub Khan,

the then President of Pakistan, Jawaharlal Nehru 

the then Indian Prime Minister, and Mr. W.A.B. Illif 

The Treaty is effective from 1st April 1960 

Explanation

Explanation

Akhori Dam is located near Akhori Village in Attock District of Punjab.