Pakistan is blessed with rivers of sweet water (140 MAF) and a 50 MAF ground water reserve to compensate for its lack of oil reserves. While oil has to be pumped out at great cost the sweet river water is free for asking as nature’s gift. An irrigation expert has estimated that one MAF of sweet water is equal to two billion US dollars worth of agricultural and industrial output from water and power. As such Kalabagh dam would have given us US 12 billion $ yearly with 6.1 MAF of water.
MUHAMMAD YAQOOB BHATTI
Lahore
