HYDERABAD, Aug 30: There will be no water available downstream Guddu Barrage if more dams are built, says Chairman of the Sindh National Front Mumtaz Ali Bhutto.

He was speaking to a gathering of his party workers here at the local circuit house here.

Expressing resentment over the president’s statements on the water issue, Mumtaz Bhutto said that instead of sympathising with the rain-affected people of Sindh, he had rubbed salt into their wounds.

Mumtaz Bhutto said that only assurances regarding monitoring of water distribution were insufficient to satisfy the people of Sindh as the province’s water share had continuously been usurped during the three-and-a-half years of the military rule.

He said that the controversial water projects should have been buried forever after their rejection by three provincial assemblies.

Mumtaz Bhutto urged legislators belonging to Sindh, Balochistan and the NWFP to stage sit-ins at the Minar-i-Pakistan in Lahore until guarantees were given for the shelving of projects like the greater Thal canal and Kalabagh dam.