Saturday, June 12, 2010

Baluchistan Diary - Day 6 / Loralai water supply


Loralai water supply
Originally uploaded by Ameer Hamza
This is a beautiful place for many reasons. Firstly, it sits on a platform from where mountains rise up. Secondly, there are around 18 places from where water gushes out and is supplied to the city of Loralai. Thirdly, it is a place of much beauty with crystal waters and overhanging grapes.

Here, I would like to add one thing. This pond and subsequent water supply to the entire town of Loralai is a salute to the British engineering in our part of the world. Here, 18 water points have been blocked in a single building and channelized. Open channel goes to the city while the enclosed channel supplies water to the Cant area below, just as it has done since past 100 years.

This expedition is funded by www.pakgateway.com.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I wanna have a sip.

Ameer Hamza said...

Entire city of Loralai gets water from this single place. And you imagine the level of construction here: It was done by British engineers when they ruled Subcontinent. It is still working.