July 9: The News report by Khalid Mustafa states that as predicted, Pakistan’s largest reservoir Tarbela dam reached dead level on Sunday while Mangla dam has just 0.8 million acre-feet of water (MAF). Tarbela dam came on the run of river at 6am on Sunday by touching the dead level of 1386 feet. Now the live storage of the said dam stands at zero. The water inflows at Tarbela have tumbled to 1,15,000 cusecs per day whereas the outflows stand at 1,23,700 cusecs.
The News: Tarbela reaches dead level as water crisis looms
