LAHORE: India is releasing water from its dams over Sutlej and Beas which is likely to generate low flood at Ganda Singhwala on August 13.

The Flood Forecasting Division (FFD) said on Tuesday that the flow in River Sutlej at Ganda Singhwala was likely to increase from 45,000 to 55,000 cusecs on August 13. As a result, river Sutlej is likely to attain low flood at this point.

It said India was likely to release 20,000 cusecs of water in the river.

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The FFD said River Indus at Guddu, Sukkur and Kotri was in high flood. It was in medium flood at Chashma and Taunsa and in low flood at Tarbela and Kalabagh. River Kabul was also in low flood at Nowshera.

Tarbela Dam is filled to its capacity of 1,550 ft and its outflows are almost matching its inflows these days. The inflow on Tuesday was 336,000 cusecs and the outflows 314,000 cusecs.

Officials said Punjab last week had requested Wapda authorities to release, if required, a maximum of up to 500,000 cusecs from the dam so as to keep the downstream flows manageable.

The Met office said the weather would remain mainly dry over most parts of the country in the next 24 hours. However, isolated thundershowers were expected over the upper catchments of all the major rivers along with north-northeast Punjab, northeast Balochistan, Kohat, Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan and Dera Ghazi Khan.

Meanwhile, Lahore received partial rain which enhanced humidity in the air and caused mugginess.

The Met office recorded 10mm of rain at its Jail Road office and said it rained heavily on the eastern side of the city.

Published in Dawn, August 12th, 2015

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