Dasu Dam

The Dasu Dam is a large (largest run of the river dam in world) hydroelectric gravity dam currently under construction on the Indus River near Dasu in Kohistan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. It is developed by Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda), as a key component of the company's Water Vision 2025. The project was started in 2017 but faced a delay due to funds and land acquisition disputes. Work resumed in 2020 after land acquisition and arrangements of funding facility, the World Bank agreed to contribute $700 million of the $4.2 billion as the pakistan government decided to proceed ahead with the construction of the project, as part of the WAPDAs vision 2025. The 242 m (794 ft) tall dam will support a 4,320 MW hydropower station, to be built in two 2,160 MW stages. The plant is expected to start generating power in 2029, and stage-I is planned to complete by 2029. Water from the reservoir will be diverted to the power station located about 3.5 km (2.2 mi) downstream.

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