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Anatomy of Kalabagh Dam
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Anatomy of Kalabagh Dam
THIS is with reference to the letter on Kalabagh Dam (March 7). More diversions of the water on the already water stressed Indus by constructing the Kalabagh Dam and now the Thal canal would mean nothing less than the subtle economic strangulation of the economy and ecology of the lower-riparians.
A former chief engineer of the Sindh Irrigation Department, Mr A.R Memon, in his Anatomy of Kalabagh Dam states: “The current drive for construction of any new storage dam is fraught with dangerous consequences of which there seems to be no awareness on the part of propagators who have persuaded themselves to believe that it was open sesame to the paradise of progress and self-sufficiency.
“The voice of lower riparians seems to disappear in the wilderness. This option of new dam requires to be ruled out in the larger interest of Pakistan.”
In his book Cadillac Desert, Mare Reisner states that “despite the fifty thousand major dams we have built in America, despite the fact that federal irrigation has, for the most part, been a horribly bad investment in fr
