Sindh needs a dam on the Indus more than Punjab which has ample ground water
LAHORE: It is only during the short flood period of three months that water is available to us directly from the rivers. For the remaining nine months, it is the water stored in the dams that meets our agricultural and other needs. The water supply to the vast plains of the country (where dams cannot be built), perforce, has to come from the mountainous regions (where dams can be built). Ignorance of this simple fact is the root cause of our water problems. There are countries where the people living in the plains have offered to fund dams in the mountains to benefit from the power and water they can provide.
Sindh needs a dam on the Indus more than Punjab which has ample ground water. If Mangla and Tarbela dams could have increased supplies to Sindh from 35.6 maf to 44.5 maf, why would Kalabagh Dam also not increase and not decrease supply, as is feared against all logic?
Engr Khurshid Anwer
Published in The Express Tribune, February 6th, 2016.
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