Chotiari Dam () is an artificial water reservoir situated 35 km away from the

Sanghar Sanghar (; English: Sānghar) is a city in Sanghar District, Sindh, Pakistan. Sanghar is the headquarters of Sanghar District and Sanghar Taluka (a subdivision of the district). The driving distance of Sangher from Karachi is 268 kilometers ...

town in the

Sanghar District Sanghar District (, ) is one of the largest districts of Sindh province, Pakistan. This district lies between 25058'13 N latitudes and 69024'4E longitudes. It was a village before Mallah tribe were settled there. This district has the largest Ma ...

of the

Sindh Sindh ( ; ; , ; abbr. SD, historically romanized as Sind (caliphal province), Sind or Scinde) is a Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Pakistan. Located in the Geography of Pakistan, southeastern region of the country, Sindh is t ...

province of

Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...

. Its construction was completed in December, 2002, at the total cost of Rs 6 billion. The main purpose of constructing this dam was to discharge saline water of the

Left Bank Outfall Drain Left Bank Outfall Drain is a drainage canal in Pakistan. Built between 1987 and 1997 using funding from the World Bank, the canal collects saline water, industrial effluents and Indus river basin floodwater from more than two million hectares of l ...

(LBOD). The dam is extended to with storage capacity of feet. It has an active capacity of 0.67 MAF. Before the construction of the reservoir, this site was home to a few natural lakes, fed by the tributaries of the

Nara Canal The Nara Canal is a Distributary, delta channel of the Indus River in Sindh province, Pakistan that was built as an excavated channel stemming off the left bank of the Indus River to join the course of the old Nara River, a tributary c.q. paleoch ...

. It is also a wetland and habitat for birds, reptiles and small mammals. Now, the environment and wildlife of this area is badly affected by the saline water discharge of

(LBOD).

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