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Darawat Dam

The 928th tallest dam in the world

m

Darawat Dam is concrete gravity dam across Nai Baran River near the village of Jhangri in Jamshoro District of Sindh, Pakistan. Construction of dam started in March 2010 and its completion was inaugurated by the President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, on 9 March 2013. Its estimated cost was PKR 9.3 Billion. The dam is 250 metres (820 ft) in length and 43 metres (141 ft) in height, and can store about 150 million cubic metres (120, 000 acre ft) of water to help irrigate 10,000 hectares (25, 000 acres) of land.

Dam data from Wikidata (CC0) plus curated additions. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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