Water crisis looms large if not enough monsoon rains
July 4, 2021
Islamabad: Because of not enough snowfall during the last winter in the catchment area of Simly Dam, the main source of drinking water supply to the federal capital, the water level
in the water reservoir has already dropped to 2,248 feet above sea level, the sources in the Water Management Division of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) told ‘The News’.
The optimum level of the Simly water reservoir is 2,315 feet above sea level and the dead level is 2,233 feet above sea level. The sources told ‘The News’ that the withdrawal from Simly dam has already been cut down to half from the normal withdrawal of 32 million gallons per day (MGD).
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Our Correspondent
Nurpur, June 27
Cracking down on drug mafia active in the border areas of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab, the police of the two states conducted a joint raid-cum-search operation at Bhadroya village in Damtal area of Nurpur in Kangra district late last evening.
Some male members are learnt to have fled their houses on seeing the police, leaving their wives and children behind. The operation that lasted over two hours was led by Damtal SHO Harish Guleri and Pathankot DSP Rajinder Minhas and comprised around 50 police personnel.
The police said seven houses of peddlers against whom cases had earlier been registered under the NDPS Act were searched.
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