The world’s largest earth filled dam is Tarble Dam and it the second largest dam by the structural volume. Tarbela Dam is located on Indus River in Khyber Paktunkhwa’s Hazara Division’ District Haripur. From Islamabad, it is about 50 kilometers northwest. The height of dam is 485 feet above riverbed. It was completed in 1976, and it was designed in the way so it could store water for irrigation, generate hydroelectric power and to control flooding.