Tanda Dam

{{Short description|Dam in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan}}

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{{Designation list

| designation1 = Ramsar

| designation1_date = 23 July 1976

| designation1_number = 98{{Cite web|title=Tanda Dam|website=Ramsar Sites Information Service|url=https://rsis.ramsar.org/ris/98|accessdate=25 April 2018}}}}

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Tanda Dam or Tanda Lake is a small dam and also a lake view park located in the Kohat District of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.{{cite news |title=A tourist resort has approved by converting Tanda Dam into Lake View Park |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1324522 |accessdate=29 August 2018 |work=Dawn Newspaper}} The dam supplies water for irrigation to Jurma, Tappi, Baqizai, Dhoda, Shahpur and many other villages by means of canals from Tanda Lake.

It became operational on 17 July 1967, though it was inaugurated by the then president Ayub Khan in 1962.{{cite news |title=1967 : Fifty years ago : Tanda Dam completed |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1345981 |accessdate=7 June 2020 |publisher=The Dawn |date=18 July 1997}} Covering an area of {{convert|405|ha|abbr=on}},{{cite web |title=Tanda Dam |url=https://rsis.ramsar.org/ris/98 |website=Ramsar Sites Information Service |accessdate=7 June 2020}} Tanda Dam had the initial capacity to store 65,000 acre feet of water and provide a perennial supply of 260 cusecs of water for irrigation.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}

Tanda Lake is a protected site under the Ramsar Convention," Sakafat-e-Kohat " written by Ahmad Paracha. an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands. It was included as a Ramsar site on 23 July 1976. The lake is home to migratory birds from Siberia and the Caspian during winter.{{cite news |title=Special Feature on Tanda Dam |url=http://www.radio.gov.pk/programme/17-07-2019/special-feature-on-tanda-dam |accessdate=7 June 2020 |publisher=Radio Pakistan (PBC Kohat) |date=17 July 2019}}