LCCI wants early construction of Kalabagh dam as reported in the Nation of June 28. Please note that reservoir level at maximum storage will be 25 feet below Nowshera and not 150 feet as stated, it is only when the reservoir is drawn-down during the flood season that it will be 150 feet below Nowshera.
Please note that the term ‘million acres’ denotes the area of a tract of land, and the term ‘million acre feet’ denotes volume of water i.e. one foot of water standing over one million acres of land.
Categorising opponents of Kalabagh dam as enemies of the country is very bad strategy and does more harm than good. Most people oppose the dam because their leaders have misled them because of their own ignorance that Sindh will become a desert and Nowshera will drown.
Actually, it’s South Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan that will soon be drowning because Kalabagh dam has not been built, the only dam that can moderate the floods of the river sized tributaries of the Indus, namely Kabul, Chitral, Swat, Haro and Soan.
Engr Khurshid Anwer
Lahore
