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Assignment
Submitted to: Prof. Khalil Ur Rehman
Submitted by: Amina Tariq
Roll No.01
Irrigation:-
Artificial application of water to the soil through manually or
mechanically managed system for the purpose to
• Watershed River
• Dam
• Barrage
• Canals (Link, Main, Branch, Major and Minor)
• Watercourse
Watershed receive rainfall and contributes to the formation of
river, dams and barrages are storage structures and rise the head
of water, link canals deliver water from one river to another river,
main canal takes its supply from river and water of main canal is
used for irrigation through branch, major, minor and watercourse.
In next pages we will discuss these components of an irrigation
system one by one.
Dams of Pakistan:-
There are many smaller and larger scale dams are in Pakistan.