Uttarakhand is endowed with huge water power potential in its holy and mighty rivers spanning the length and breadth of the region. The total hydro power potential in Uttarakhand as per preliminary estimate has been assessed around 16500 MW out of which only 1160 MW has been harnessed so far which constitutes hardly 7% of the available potential. A number of schemes on which work was started and infrastructure fully created, had to be stopped half way on account of financial constraints.
 

(A).Commissioned Projects.
(B).Projects Under Construction.
(C).Projects Under Construction but heldup.
(D).Projects Identified.
 

Canals:-

Close under the hills the sub soil water lies nearer to the surface in the form of either isolated pools or in rivulets which, after flowing a short distance, disappear below the surface. In all other parts of the valley, the subsoil water lies at a great depth rendering Irrigation from wells impossible.
          Under these conditions canals and reservoirs are the only means for Irrigation and supplying drinking water in the region.
With the deputation of Captain Caultey,  in 1837, to make an estimate of the cost of a canal from the Tons river near the village Bijapur, a commencement was made on the construction of Dun canals.
        These now consist of the following separate works:

(A). Bijapur Canal.
(B). Rajpur Canal.
(C). Kalanga Canal.
(D). Jakhan Canal.
(E). Kata Pathar Canal