Reservoir Watch
Live storage levels for Pakistan's 3 major federal reservoirs on the Indus River System. Data from IRSA — the Indus River System Authority.
Average fill
72.0%
Stored
17,505 hm³
Total capacity
24,296 hm³
Reservoirs
3
Drought conditions · 11 October 2026
Rain over the last three months vs normal · share of areaDrought status
47.8%
of the area had much less rain than normal over the last three months
Worst class: extremely dry on 7.8%
Severely dry or worse
20.6%
Extremely dry
7.8%
Reservoirs on dry ground
1 of 31 extremely dry
Reservoirs (reservoirs.earth)
72.0% full3 tracked
In the three months to 11 October 2026, 47.8% of Pakistan received much less rain than is normal for the season, and 7.8% extremely little, a shortfall seen about one year in forty. 1 of the 3 reservoir sites we track are in that rain-short area, 1 of them where the shortfall is extreme. The 3 reservoirs were 72.0% full on their latest readings.
“Much less rain than normal” means the last three months were drier than about five in six of the same seasons on record at that point; “extremely little” drier than about thirty-nine in forty. The measure is the Copernicus Global Drought Observatory's three-month Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI-3), on a 25 km grid; the first threshold is roughly where the U.S. Drought Monitor starts D1 (moderate drought), so this headline reads like the Monitor's, though the Monitor also weighs soil moisture, streamflow and local reports. Area shares count the grid cells inside the country outline, weighted by latitude. All of it describes conditions on the ground, not how much water is stored; a reservoir can be full after a dry season and low after a wet one. Source: drought.emergency.copernicus.eu. European Drought Observatory / Global Drought Observatory, https://drought.emergency.copernicus.eu © European Commission – JRC. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Data source: IRSA — Indus River System Authority, Government of Pakistan · Last updated 2026-10-25
Provinces shown as N/A
Balochistan, Sindh, Gilgit-Baltistan and Islamabad Capital Territory appear as N/A on the map. IRSA's public daily report covers only the major multipurpose storage reservoirs on the Indus River System — Tarbela, Mangla and Chashma — which sit in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Azad Jammu & Kashmir and Punjab. The other provinces and territories are served mainly by barrages and run-of-river schemes (which divert flow rather than store it) or by smaller dams with no publicly accessible volumetric storage data, so they have no tracked reservoir.
Dataset coverage
Tracked
3
reservoirs
With data
3
reservoirs
Tracked capacity
24,296
hm³
Source: IRSA — Indus River System Authority · WAPDA
Only 3 major federal reservoirs (Tarbela, Mangla, Chashma) are currently tracked. Pakistan has dozens more dams and reservoirs — particularly in KP and Balochistan — with no publicly accessible volumetric storage data.
About reservoirs in Pakistan
As of October 25, 2026, the reservoirs we track across Pakistan that report live levels hold roughly 17,505 hm³ of water — about 72.0% of their combined capacity. Taken together, Pakistan's reservoirs are within their normal operating range.
None of the tracked reservoirs are currently at critically low levels. Tarbela Dam is the fullest at 87.5%, while Mangla Dam is the lowest at 55.0%.
Over the most recent week on record, 1 reservoir rose and 1 reservoir fell across Pakistan.
Storage figures for Pakistan come from IRSA; the most recent reading is from October 25, 2026. Each reservoir below links to its own page with full history and seasonal context.
Pakistan at a glance
- Reservoirs tracked
- 3
- Average fill
- 72.0%
- Water stored
- 17,505 hm³
- Combined capacity
- 24,296 hm³
- Fullest
- Tarbela Dam (87.5%)
- Lowest
- Mangla Dam (55.0%)
- Last updated
- October 25, 2026