After drying out Ravi, Sutlej and Beas rivers, India has depleted Chenab river by building Baglihar Dam and is now depleting Jehlum river by building Kishan Ganga Dam, in addition to many other dams on all our three rivers.
While we have only 30-day storage capacity to meet any contingency, no other country endowed with rivers has less than 100-day reserve storage. Should we not build more mega dams sooner rather than wait for 15 years for Bhasha dam, by which time Mangla and Tarbela dams will have lost the storage capacity they have now.
KHURSHID ANWER
Lahore
