Warsak Dam

Warsak Dam (Pashto: د ورسک بند; Urdu: ورسک ڈیم) is a mass concrete gravity dam located on the Kabul River in District Mohmand, Mechni, approximately 30 km northwest from the city of Peshawar in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

Irrigation tunnels and installation of four power generating units, each of 40 MW capacity with 132 kV transmission system, were also completed in 1960.

[1] Germany will loan 40 million euros to Pakistan for the rehabilitation of the Warsak hydroelectric power station built over half a century ago on Kabul River in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

They plan to overcome several problems, including regaining the capacity loss of 30MW with reliable annual energy generation of 1,144GWh, upgrade and modernise the old system, and achieve another life cycle of 30 to 40 years.

The current rehabilitation work will be financed by Germany, France and the European Union[2] Extension is being planned.

River Kabul near Warsak Dam