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Blue gold

From the Newspaper Published May 1, 2015

REFERENCE ‘Women watch water flowing from Rawal dam after its spillway opened’ (Dawn photo report, April 28).

We have dwindling water, now termed “blue gold” by specialists. Why are we spilling this precious commodity into a nullah? Why can’t we increase the area or the depth of the Rawal dam to store more?

SNIR

Karachi

Published in Dawn, May 1st, 2015

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cmh
May 01, 2015 05:22pm
It requires Vision and will.
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