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ISLAMABAD: The water level in Tarbela Dam touched the dead level of 1378 feet on Saturday.
According to data released by the Indus River System Authority (Irsa), the maximum water level in River Indus at Tarbela was 1378 feet, while inflow and outflow in the dam was recorded same as 26900 cusecs.
The water level at River Jhelum at Mangla was 1092.90 feet, which is 52.90 feet above its dead level of 1040 feet, whereas the inflow and outflow of water in the dam was recorded as 50,956 and 42,000 cusecs respectively.
Irsa released 120,507 cusecs water from various rim stations while the inflow remained as 129463 cusecs.
The release of water at Kalabagh, Taunsa and Sukkur was recorded as 29,403, 28,015, and 41,300 cusecs respectively.
Similarly, from River Kabul a total of 28,600 cusecs of water was released at Nowshera and 23,007 cusecs released from River Chenab at Marala.
Due to low inflow of water in dams, hydel generation has been reduced considerably, deepening the power crisis. The Pakistan Electric Supply Company (Pepco) has been forced to observe up to eight hours of load-shedding in the country.
Pepco's daily report showed a shortfall of 3,935 MW on Saturday. The reports puts the country's total power generation at 11,020 MW against a demand of 14,955 MW during the last 24 hours.
The hydel generation stood at 2,711 MW, Wapda thermal 1,571 MW, IPPs 6,538 MW and Rental 200 MW. Some 630 MW of electricity was supplied to the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC), the report further said.
