The Minister for Water and Power told the National Assembly that solar energy is the most expensive at Rs22.81 per unit, and energy from wind is 14.31. Moreover, energy from HSD is 18.61, coal 12.06, biogas 11.78, furnace oil 11.74, Iran gas 10.49, IP 9.06, nuclear 8.33 and gas 7.97.
Cost per unit from hydel is Rs1.78, and it is the only source of energy which will also give us water.
This should give some food for thought to those who think that alternate sources of power are a substitute for Kalabagh dam.
ENGR KHURSHID ANWER
Lahore
It is the insanity of all governments since the end of Ist. PPP government (of Z.A.Bhutto) that the reality of flood has not been dealt with correctly. Indus Basin Development Plan completed in 1967 had foreseen and adequately designed the flood control.
Kalabagh Dam was supposed to have been in operation by 1990. For effective and durable flood control, a gigantic storage only dam of 22 MAF storage capacity was planned to be constructed before the year 2000, in the Doab area of lower Punjab, which would have received the flood waters through diversion structures at Kalabagh Dam. Therefore, Kalabagh Dam should have been suitably projected as a necessary diversion structure to facilitate Doab Dam, which could only get flood waters from Kalabagh Dam diversion structures.
I have seen the preliminary designs of Doab Dam in southern Punjab, ready with all preliminary surveys and outline design parameters of 55 ft. high and 70 km long earth dam with 22 MAF total and 20 MAF live (usable) water storage capacity. It can store an entire mega-flood in a year that can be used for all year long agricultural and other uses downstream, which is almost entirely in Sindh and Baluchistan. It is a pity that Sindh and Baluchistan are silent on their life and death matter and future flood controls for almost all times to come. There could be no better answer from Pakistan to the horrible onslaught of Global Warming.
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