The country is plunging into a food and water crisis because the last increase in river water supply was made 40 years ago. Further development of water resources was halted because it was thought that a dam at Kalabagh would a) reduce flow in the Indus and Sindh will become a desert, and b) Punjab would take too much water from it because it is in Punjab. A country where there is so much ignorance about dams deserves what it is getting.
Not many columnists have tried to set the record straight, that dams store only the surplus flood water (38 maf went down the drain this flood season) without in any way interfering with the normal flow of the river, that it is IRSA and not Punjab which distributes river waters as per an agreed formula, and Sindh has three votes in IRSA against one vote for Punjab. Unless the correct facts and figures are not splashed regularly in the newspapers, how will the cobwebs of ignorance be shed?
ENGR KHURSHID ANWER
Lahore