Indus-Left-Bank Outfall Drain: Ein Versuch Pakistans zur bleibenden Sicherung der Landwirtschaft im Industiefland (Indus-Left-Bank Outfall Drain. An Attempt of Pakistan at Permanently Securing the Agricultural Production of the Indus Plain)

Since the realization of the different "canal-colony-projects" in the Indus plain during the British rule, the agricultural production has been suffering from salinization and water-logging. In the past, the government of Pakistan already started several desalinization and drainage project...

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Published in:Erdkunde 1987-09, Vol.41 (3), p.246-249
Main Author: Scholz, Fred
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Language:ger
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Summary:Since the realization of the different "canal-colony-projects" in the Indus plain during the British rule, the agricultural production has been suffering from salinization and water-logging. In the past, the government of Pakistan already started several desalinization and drainage projects for stabilizing the main economic resource of the country, i. e. the agricultural production. The "Indus-Left-Bank Outfall Drain" has so far been a very expensive experiment. However, it promises to be a permanent solution of the problems of water-logging and salinization. The drain, which will be elongated to the Punjab, serves for transporting the water to the Arabian Sea. Different horizontal and vertical methods of drainage, like tile-drainage, surface-drainage, drainage-tube-wells or scavenger-wells, are used. The rural population of the region will participate in this project by measures of the "on farm water management"-level.
ISSN:0014-0015