GulHamad Farooqui Chitral
Protection walls and irrigation channels completed at different valleys which affected by Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) by GLOF II project.
GLOF-II project running with financial support of United Nations Development Programme, (UNDP), construction of protective walls, community centers, irrigation canals in various parts of Lower and Upper Chitral and other parts of Dir upper and Swat has been completed. These areas would be saved from flood and other natural disasters after construction of these protection walls which constructed in Chitral and its neighbouring districts having centuries-old glaciers, on the peaks of the mountains, which often erupt in summer due to global warming, which leads to GLOF events.
Due to the bursting of these avalanches by extreme heat, often without any rainfall or prior warning, catastrophic floods cause massive loss of life and property.
Under the UNDP-funded Glacial Lake Outburst Flood, GLOF II Project, in such areas where GLOF events take place, safety walls has been constructed in stormwater drains to protect local people from flooding and damage. Under GLOF-2 project, protection walls, community centers and irrigation channels were also being constructed in Madgulshat, Arkari, Reshun in Lower and Upper Chitral, Mittaltan in Swat, MohallaQila, KamarKhora, Osho and Tal in Kumrat in Upper Dir districts. These irrigations channels will irrigate thousands acres of land. Due to GLOF event, a glacier bursting without any rainfall or weather conditions causes flash floods, leaving little chance for people to save their property and lives, and these unexpected floods lead to widespread destruction. Early Warning System (EWS) missionaries will also be installed in these areas in collaboration with the Meteorological Department to provide early warning system under the GLOF Two project to the people living in the valleys under the glacier.
