Sukkur Barrage, Fife Dream
From the Blog odysseuslahoriWhen the Begari Canal was first reactivated along “modern” lines in 1847, it was learnt that inundation canals were beset with defects due to their off-take from the river. Water supply remained perpetually erratic due to continual silting at the canal mouth, necessitating frequent maintenance. Moreover, the channel of the Indus – and it had several in the flatlands of Sindh – that fed the canals was fickle in flow and trail. Sukkur Barrage commissioned on 13 January 1932 as Lloyd Barrage. The sixty-six spans each 18.29 (sixty feet) wide stretch a kilometre and a half across the Indus between the cities of Sukkur and Rohri. It was and still is the largest single system of irrigation canals in Pakistan commanding an area of 8.24 million acres through canals totalling 76,480 kilomepakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
Tackling Heat Waves
From the Blog pamirtimes[image: heat] By Saudamini Das, Priya Shyamsundar and Saleem Shaikh The recent searing heat waves in the sub-continent have proved fatal to hundreds. The unforgiving heat has spared no one. The very young, the very old and those in the prime of their lives have all been scorched. Over four thousand people have died of severe heat strokes in Pakistan and India in two distinct heat wave events during May and June. While the extreme weather event has subsided, thanks to declining temperatures, the number of the heatstroke victims in Pakistan has only continued to spike. Though the 1.4 billion people of India and Pakistan are no strangers to long spells of sizzlingly hot and humid weather at this time of year, it is clear that both local populations and their governments were unpreppakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
Interoperability in Payments
From the Blog faisalkhan Interoperability, is roughly defined as: …is the ability of a system or a product to work with other systems or products without special effort on the part of the customer. There isn’t a payments conference where this word *interoperability* is not spoken of. The utopian dream is to have a payment system where *anyone* can send money to *anyone*, regardless of country, bank, mobile operator, currency, regulations, OS, device, etc. In the mobile arena, interoperability is always compared to the challenges that SMS (text messages) had in the early days of mobile telecommunication. Sending an SMS from one network to another was impossible, until, standards emerged for exchanging messages across all mobile networks. Today texting is seamless. We don’t even pay much attention to itpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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