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INDUSTRY needs a massive input of cheap energy, and agriculture needs a massive input of ample water. Only Kalabagh Dam can provide both these inputs. Small dams are not the answer. The Dasu Dam will do only half the job and Bhasha Dam is far away.
It is wrong to say: “Sindh will become a desert if Kalabagh dam is built.” There is no such danger with the Indus River System Authority distributing river waters. On the contrary, nothing can save Sindh from becoming a desert if Kalabagh dam is not built. Where will Sindh get 2.25 million acre-feet of water to add to the 7.0 maf it is already getting from Tarbela?
Engr Khurshid Anwer
Lahore
Published in Dawn, September 23rd, 2014
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Sep 23, 2014 05:25pm
Endorsing views of Engr. Khurshid Anwer (Hamnaam of my friend, Ex CE Tarbela Power Station), I further add that Kalabagh Dam (better renamed as Khushali Dam for bringing prosperity to entire nation by inundating town of Khushalgarh but never Nowshehra) is going to irrigate 800,000 acres of DIKhan and Tank in KPK (which cannot take its share of water from any reservoir upstream) besides increasing share of Sind, Punjab and Baluchistan as per IRSA Water Accord of 1991. Cheap hydel energy so produced by its 3,600 MW power station would be injected very close to load centres further strengthening and stabilizing National Grid and substantially reducing both transmission cost and losses as from any power plant from far away in the north.
All previous and present governments have sacrificed its importance for entire nation over sustenance of their rules. It is high time for the government to build consensus for this dam or otherwise go for referendum on it.
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