Minister opens dam in Balochistan

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Minister opens dam in Balochistan

A Correspondent Published November 25, 2019

Balochistan’s Minister for Public Health and Engineering Noor Mohammad Dummar on Sunday inaugurated a dam and Karez in the old Sanjavi area. —Noor Mohammad Dummar Facebook

QUETTA: Balochistan’s Minister for Public Health and Engineering Noor Mohammad Dummar on Sunday inaugurated a dam and Karez in the old Sanjavi area.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr Dummar said that Balochistan had been facing an acute shortage of water since long. He said the people of the province were being forced to resort to unregulated extraction of groundwater through tube wells.

He said since Balochistan was the most neglected province of the country, it had been adversely hit by water shortage since 2010. “According to some estimates, the province will face chronic water shortages in coming years if the incumbent provincial government continues to ignore the issue."

Published in Dawn, November 25th, 2019

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Fastrack

Nov 25, 2019 08:44am

Keep going. Splendid.

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Zak

Nov 25, 2019 09:18am

Under IK, Balochistan will fare the best, in coming years.

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Zak

Nov 25, 2019 09:18am

Congratulations on first dam inauguration. Need many more.

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abdullah

Nov 25, 2019 11:13am

@Zak, its not under ik.its a seperate govt and they have finally decided to build a fam under 18th amendmemt. Kpk brt is under pti.we see whats happening to it.

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Vikas

Nov 25, 2019 12:48pm

Good news. Does that get the count of number of dams in Pakistan into double figures?

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Shahid

Nov 25, 2019 01:21pm

He people also need to be educated on use of scarce water resource. It is criminal to grow wheat and cotton in a place like Balochistan using flood irrigation. Can you imagine flood irrigation in Balochistan. Cost free electricity from solar panels has exaggerated the plunderous use of UG water

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hussain

Nov 25, 2019 04:08pm

baluchistan could be an agricultural hub if there is modern farming techniques with adequate water supply, this could help to alleviate certain commodity shortages. I do hope more is done to create water and electricity supply to all parts of balochistan.

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