Harike Barrage | barrage, India (original) (raw)

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Indus River and irrigation efforts

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  In Indus River: Irrigation of the Indus River
  The Harike Barrage, at the confluence of the Beas and Sutlej, channels water into the Indira Gandhi Canal, which runs for about 400 miles (640 km) to the southwest to irrigate some 1.5 million acres (607,000 hectares) of desert in western Rajasthan. The main canal was…
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irrigation in Thar Desert

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  In Thar Desert: Economy
  The canal begins at the Harike Barrage—at the confluence of the Sutlej and Beas rivers in the Indian Punjab—and continues in a southwesterly direction for some 290 miles (470 km).
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