Floods Delay U.S., China-Built Dam in Power-Starved Pakistan
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Pakistan’s Gomal Zam dam, needed by the government to ease power and water shortages, will be completed six months late because of delayed funding and damage from recent floods, its project manager said.
The barrage, being built by China’s state-owned Sinohydro Corp., “will begin operating in April 2011” instead of this month, said Colonel Muhammad Zaheer, who oversees the work for the army’s Frontier Works Organization. “The construction is 92 percent complete,” Zaheer said in an interview Sept. 28 at the dam site.