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...world's major reclamation projects moved a step ahead last week. Meeting in Paris, representatives of Pakistan and the World Bank finally selected the contractor who will build the giant Tarbela Dam on the Indus River in remote West Pakistan. Winner of the job, with a bid of $623 million for the eight-year project, is a consortium of French and Italian companies led by Impregilo of Milan...
...diameter, must be dug through the rock of surrounding mountains to bring water into the electric generators and irrigation releases. Eventually a 50-mile reservoir will form behind the dam to provide water for crops during West Pakistan's long dry season. So much silt does the Indus carry-twice as much as the Nile at flood season-that the reservoir will be nearly silt-filled in 50 years. To overcome this problem, a link will be dug to the Haro River, which flows near the Indus, and a second reservoir will be created...
...Pakistan, the Indus Basin project represents something more than national prestige. Until British India was partitioned into two nations, the area of West Pakistan served bv the dams got its water from rivers whose headwaters are now in unfriendly India. India will be free to cut off Pakistan's flow of water from the east in 1970 and use it for Indian purposes. Developing a whole new water system along the Indus, Pakistan must therefore have much of it ready by 1970, and is gladly paying bonuses to contractors who complete their portions ahead of schedule...
Promoted by the World Bank and agreed to by India and Pakistan in 1960, the project defines the water rights of the two countries, and will control the seasonal fluctuations of the 1,900-mile Indus and its five tributaries through a system of canals, dikes and dams. The U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, West Germany and New Zealand have committed themselves to supply nearly $1 billion toward the cost...
...Atkinsons are not anxious to leave Pakistan soon. While polishing up the Mangla project, they are preparing to bid on an even larger slice of the Indus river complex: a second dam, to be built at Tarbela on the Indus for about $950 million...