The Pakistan Water & Power Development Authority (), colloquially known as WAPDA, is a Pakistani

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-owned

public utility A public utility company (usually just utility) is an organization that maintains the infrastructure for a public service (often also providing a service using that infrastructure). Public utilities are subject to forms of public control and ...

agency maintaining

hydropower Hydropower (from Ancient Greek -, "water"), also known as water power or water energy, is the use of falling or fast-running water to Electricity generation, produce electricity or to power machines. This is achieved by energy transformation, ...

and

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Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...

, although it does not manage

thermal power A thermal power station, also known as a thermal power plant, is a type of power station in which the heat energy generated from various fuel sources (e.g., coal, natural gas, nuclear fuel, etc.) is converted to electrical energy. The heat ...

plants. WAPDA includes

Tarbela Tarbela () or Torbela () is one of the 44 union councils, administrative subdivision, of Haripur District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The name comes from the words ''tor'' (Pashto for "black") and ''bela'' (Punjabi/Hindko for " ...

and

Mangla Mangla () is a town situated in District Mirpur within the region of Azad Kashmir. The village is located in the west of the foothills of Mangla's fort (which also derived its name from the same village). It is surrounded on three sides by the s ...

dams among its resources. Its headquartered in

Lahore Lahore ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, second-largest city in Pakistan, after Karachi, and ...

History

WAPDA was established by an act of parliament in 1958Water and Power Development Authority
/ref> to unify the maintenance of

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previously overseen by

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agencies. Its Chairmen included outstanding civil servants like

Ghulam Ishaq Khan Ghulam Ishaq Khan (20 January 1915 – 27 October 2006), commonly known by his initials GIK, was a Pakistani bureaucrat, politician and statesman who served as the seventh President of Pakistan from 1988 to 1993. He previously served as Chairm ...

Ghulam Faruque Khan Ghulam Faruque Khan HPk, CIE, OBE (7 October 1899 – 29 April 1992) was a Pakistani politician and businessman who was the founder of Ghulam Faruque Group. As a politician, he became Governor of East Pakistan and Federal Minister for Commerce ...

and

Aftab Ghulam Nabi Kazi Aftab Ghulam Nabi Kazi (; 6 November 1919 – 9 August 2016) , also known as AGN Kazi, was a Pakistani civil servant and a bureaucrat during the Cold War and during the post cold war. Kazi was born in Sindh, Bombay Presidency, in 1919 to an a ...

who were subsequently

President of Pakistan The president of Pakistan () is the head of state of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The president is the nominal head of the executive and the supreme commander of the Pakistan Armed Forces.

, Minister for Commerce and Economic Adviser, respectively. In October 2007, thermal power management was split into the newly formed

Pakistan Electric Power Company Pakistan Electric Power Company (), colloquially known as PEPCO, is a holding company that monitor's and coordinates Pakistan's Distribution Companies (DISCOs) and used to operate as a division of the Ministry of Water and Power (Pakistan). Hist ...

(PEPCO).

WAPDA Water vision 2025

WAPDA formulated a comprehensive $25–33 billion National Water Resource and Hydropower Development Programme, entitled Water Vision 2025. The Water Vision 2025 projects are expected to generate 16,000 MW of

hydroelectricity Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is Electricity generation, electricity generated from hydropower (water power). Hydropower supplies 15% of the world's electricity, almost 4,210 TWh in 2023, which is more than all other Renewable energ ...

. Other goals are to prevent water shortages, limit drought and increase water storage for a growing population. Five massive hydropower projects have been announced by the President of Pakistan; these are to be completed by 2016, with a generation capacity of 9,500 MW. Two of the projects are ready for construction, while three are in the stages of feasibility studies and preparation of tender documents.(R H Siddiqui
Wapda 'Vision 2025' to help solve power crises
The Nation, Published 24 September 2008, Retrieved 20 June 2021

Sporting teams

Hospitals

There is a 260 Bedded WAPDA Teaching Hospital Complex at Lahore providing medical services to those in need. Additionally, there are 50 bedded hospitals at Tarbela, Peshawar, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Hyderabad, Multan, Quetta & Guddu and 20 bedded hospital at Mangla and Sukkur which are fully functional and proving in-house services in all major clinical disciplines.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Water And Power Development Authority Pakistan federal departments and agencies Regulatory authorities of Pakistan Water companies of Pakistan Water supply and sanitation in Pakistan Government agencies established in 1958 1958 establishments in Pakistan Ministry of Water Resources (Pakistan)

History

WAPDA Water vision 2025

Sporting teams

Hospitals

See also

References