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The Lloyd Barrage also famous as Sukkur Barrage, is situated on the River Indus about three miles below Sukkur Gorge, is the crown of Pakistan's irrigational system. It is the largest system of its kind in the world. It is the backbone of the economy of the entire country, providing, through its network of canals, irrigation to an area of 7.63 million acres, approximately 25 percent of the total canal irrigated area of the country. The Nara Canal, which is one of the seven canals absorbing the run off from this barrage, is the largest in the country, carrying a discharge almost equal to that of the River Thames in England. Its bed width is 346 ft. one and a half times that of the Suez Canal. It is not a manmade canal, but the south western arm of the Hakro, the lost river of the Indian Desert.

The idea of a barrage at Sukkur was first conceived by Lieutenant J.G Fife in about 1855. Sixty years later Sir Arnold Musto, an engineer, was then appointed to develop the project. His plans were submitted to the Government of Bombay, and in April 1923 the Secretary of State for India accorded the approval for the project at an estimated cost of Rs 200 million, which was sanctioned as loan to Sindh.

[Source: Sukkur: Nostalgia of things past by Momin Bullo | Coordinates: EFT]

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