FATA Water Resources
Name of Project : FATA Water Resources Development Project (FWRDP)
Location / Country : Khyber, Mohmand & Bajaur Districts (Merged Areas) KP / Pakistan
Client : Directorate of Projects (DoP) FATA Secretariat- PMU Peshawar
Funded by : Asian Development Bank
Commencement : November 2016
Completion : December 2022
The Project aims to address low farm productivity, high poverty incidence, and pervasive food insecurity in FATA by increasing agriculture production and household incomes through the provision of a reliable supply of irrigation water to non-irrigated farmlands and through development of irrigation systems on rain fed and non-cultivated lands. The Project also aims to strengthen the region’s natural resource base by improving select watersheds, enhance recharging of underground aquifers, reducing the impact of floods and resulting in more efficient use of scarce water resources. The Project is to benefit 116,751 households or approximately 1.4 million people in the Project area and improve around 9,700 hectares (ha) of land.
Main components and outputs of the project are:
- Construction of new irrigation infrastructure, including 04 small dams, each with a maximum height of 15 m.
- Construction of 31 diversion weirs.
- Solar Lift Irrigation Schemes
- Infiltration Galleries
- Construction of about 95 Km of main and secondary irrigation channels to provide a reliable supply of irrigation water round the year for about 11,000 acres of land.
- Improved on-farm management through construction of about 144 Km of lined (concrete) watercourses.
- Terracing and land leveling on a command area of about 4,600 ha, and installation of rain/stream gauges to measure water availability;
- Improved watershed management on 12,350 acres through afforestation of the degraded watersheds and, where appropriate, construction of check dams to reduce soil erosion.