Tanda Dam or Tanda Lake is a small dam and also a lake view park located in the Kohat District of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.[2] The dam supplies water for irrigation to Jurma, Tappi, Baqizai, Dhoda, Shahpur and many other villages by means of canals from Tanda Lake.

Designations
Designated23 July 1976
Reference no.98[1]
Tanda Lake

It became operational on 17 July 1967, though it was inaugurated by the then president Ayub Khan in 1962.[3] Covering an area of 405 ha (1,000 acres),[4] Tanda Dam had the initial capacity to store 65,000 acre feet of water and provide a perennial supply of 260 cusecs of water for irrigation.[citation needed]

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 23 July 1976. The lake is home to migratory birds from Siberia and the Caspian during winter.[6]

Incident

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On 29 January 2023, 49 children and two adults drowned when their boat capsized on the dam. The boat they were travelling on was carrying people on a daytrip from a local madrassa when it overturned.[7][8]

Reference

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  1. ^ "Tanda Dam". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  2. ^ "A tourist resort has approved by converting Tanda Dam into Lake View Park". Dawn Newspaper. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
  3. ^ "1967 : Fifty years ago : Tanda Dam completed". The Dawn. 18 July 1997. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  4. ^ "Tanda Dam". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  5. ^ " Sakafat-e-Kohat " written by Ahmad Paracha.
  6. ^ "Special Feature on Tanda Dam". Radio Pakistan (PBC Kohat). 17 July 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  7. ^ "Pakistan: 49 children drown after overloaded boat capsizes in lake". The Guardian. 31 January 2023. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  8. ^ "More than 50 die in two Pakistan accidents". BBC News. 29 January 2023. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
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