Water level rising at Pakistan's Two Reservoirs  
Pakistan Times Wire Service

ISLAMABAD: Water level was on a constant rise at Tarbela and Mangla dams during current spell of monsoon rains in the country.

Indus, Ravi and Chenab rivers flowing at lower level flood at various places, met department said. According to flood forecasting division report, river Indus at Tarbela, Kalabagh and Chashma, river Ravi at Balloki and Shahdara and Chenab at Head Maralla are in low flood.

Water level at Tarbela dam reservoir was reached to 1520.40 feet after further three ft. increase. The dam reservoir has maximum 1550 ft water capacity.
The water level at Mangla dam reservoir has also crossed 1195 feet height, seven ft. below the maximum capacity of 1202 ft.

Met office has forecast partly cloudy weather with chances of thunderstorm/rain during next 24 hours.

According to weather pundits, a seasonal low lies over Balochistan and adjoining Iran while monsoon low lies over Rajasthan (India).

This weather pattern is likely to cause thunderstorm /rain at many places over lower Sindh and adjoining coastal Balochistan. isolated rain is expected over the upper catchments of all the major rivers alongwith northern and northeastern Punjab.

Meanwhile, rain was reported from many places over lower Sindh, northeastern Balochistan and the upper catchments of Indus.●