This site of project is located Shergarth, Dargai, Peshawar Khyber Pukhtunkhwa. Vertical head is 8 feet and discharge of water is 163 cusecs.
Nature has specially bestowed our lovely country with countless blessings including, high mountains covered white snow, the main source of water, lush green trees on these mountains, abundant resources of water, deserts, plains, four seasons, minerals, coal resources, salts resources. In Punjab and Khyber Punkhtunkhwa, there is a big network of canals with hydraulic jumps or slopes for flowing of water from a higher level to lower level. These hydraulic jumps can be utilized to generate electricity by installing low head turbines in such sites and in this way cheap electricity could be produced very easily. The site in this video is located in Shergarth, near Dargai Khyber Pukhtunkhwa Pakistan. This canal is branch of a network of main canal from Swat River. A tunnel was constructed through Malakand pass during the era of British rule in 1905 and the project was completed in 1912. The main purpose of construction of this tunnel was to irrigate the land of three districts of Peshawar named as Mardan, Swabi and Charsadda by extending a network of canals from this tunnel. There are countless hydraulic jumps suitable for installation of low head turbines to generate electricity at small level. Some notables having money have constructed microhydel power projects on these canals to generate electricity for their domestic needs or commercial purposes like electricity for ice factory, or plastic industry etc.
