WATER PONDS

Water storage ponds serve as source of water, harvested from runoff or perennial springs. Typically, the water storage capacity of a pond is 5 to 10 acre feet. The rain-fed areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are solely depended on rainfall for their agriculture. The construction of small water ponds at local level will bring revolutionary changes in the lives of the inhabitants of these areas converting mono-culture into multiple copping, helping in fish rearing, cattle drinking, ground water recharge and associated purposes. Some of the areas have perennial springs where farmers use them for irrigating their fields but they are only possible when a water storage pond is built to store the flowing water.