Wali Tangi Dam Explained

Wali Tangi Dam
Country:	Pakistan
Designed By:	Pakistan Army

Wali Tangi Dam is a small dam in the Urak Valley in Balochistan province of Pakistan. It is situated approximately 20 km east of Quetta at an elevation of approximately 8,350 ft.

Wali Tangi Dam was constructed by the Pakistan Army^{[1] [2]} in the early 1960s^[3] to supply clean water to Urak Valley and Quetta for irrigation and human consumption. The dam stores and utilizes fresh water from melting snows in the surrounding Zarghoon mountains, which are part of the Sulaiman Range.

See also

• List of dams and reservoirs in Pakistan

Sources

• Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema, "The Armed Forces of Pakistan", Allen & Unwin, 2002
• Raymond A. Moore, Jr., "The Use of the Army in Nation-Building: The Case of Pakistan", Asian Survey, Vol. 9, No. 6 (Jun., 1969), pp. 447–456

Notes and References

1. Raymond A. Moore, Jr., "The Use of the Army in Nation-Building: The Case of Pakistan", Asian Survey, Vol. 9, No. 6 (Jun., 1969), pp. 447-456
2. Web site: Infrastructures Development . 2011-08-10 . 2011-08-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110815223632/http://www.pakistanarmy.gov.pk/AWPReview/TextContent.aspx?pId=203&rnd=218 . dead .
3. Web site: Government of Balochistan.