Tanda Dam or Tanda Lake is a small dam and also a lake view park located in Kohat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa the province of Pakistan.[2] The dam supplies water for irrigation to Jurma, Shahpur and many villages by means of canals from Tanda Lake.
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Ramsar Wetland | |
Designated | 23 July 1976 |
Reference no. | 98[1] |
It became operational on 17 July 1967, though it was inaugurated by President Ayub Khan in 1962.[3] Covering an area of 405 hectares,[4] the initial capacity of Tanda Dam was to store 65,000 acre feet of water and provide a perennial supply of 260 cusecs of water for irrigation.
Tanda Lake is a protected site under the Ramsar Convention,[5] an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands. It was included as a Ramsar site on July 23, 1976. The lake is home to migratory birds from Siberia and the Caspian during winter.[6]
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