SCA calls for LBOD’s redesign
There are light rains in the cotton belt in Sindh. The soil has absorbed the rainwater instead of it standing in the fields. A similar quantum of rains is needed for a good output of cotton this season. PHOTO: REUTERS
The Sindh Chamber of Agriculture (SCA), a farmers lobbying group, has warned that flooding will hit rural areas in parts of Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas divisions if the federal and Sindh governments do not immediately redesign the Left Bank Outfall Drain (LBOD). The body pointed out that the LBOD, a saline water channel, carried over 12,000 cusecs water against its designed capacity of 4,600 cusecs during torrential monsoon rains this year. Water overtopped the drain at multiple locations and flooded hundreds of villages.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 21st, 2020