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Pakistan needs to tap hydropower potential: World Bank [1]

Energy is the lifeline of economic development, but unfortunately, Pakistan has historically suffered from energy shortages and demand suppression because of limited supplies and lack of adequate infrastructure development for provision of energy to the industrial sector. Furthermore, the capacity of Pakistan's existing reservoirs (Tarbela, Mangla and Chashma) has declined by 27 percent and the cumulative decline will increase to 35 percent by 2012 and to 57 percent by 2025.

Publication Date: 
24/04/2008
Business Recorder (Pakistan) [2]
Tags:
Water Resources [3], Hydroelectricity [4], Energy [5], World Bank [6]
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