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Reflecting Chenab water issue
The Chenab issue is getting critical ever since India has built the controversial Baglihar dam on part of the river which flows on her lands, saying that the dam has been built on run-of-the-water and as such the amount of water to Pakistan would not reduce. Baglihar hydro electric power project was built 150 km north of Jammu in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) on October 10, 2008. This project would have an installed capacity of 900-MW, with a price tag of over US$ 1 billion. There were many impediments and controversies. Some of the objections were:
(1) Indian manipulation of IWT (which allowed India under carefully specified conditions to tap the hydropower potential of the three western rivers) that dam was built on “run-of-the-river”.
(2) Design parameters were too lax to provide India with excessive ability to accelerate, decelerate or block flow of river.
(3) It gave India a strategic leverage in times of tension or war with Pakistan.
(4) Frequent landslides while constructing diversion tunnels, proved the unsuitability of the dam.
(5) It was built on extremely sensitive seismic zone.
(6) It would dry some 5.6 million acres of land in Sialkot, Gujranwala, Jhang, Faisalabad and Sheikhupura.
For full article:
Pakistan Observer - Newspaper online edition - Article
The Chenab issue is getting critical ever since India has built the controversial Baglihar dam on part of the river which flows on her lands, saying that the dam has been built on run-of-the-water and as such the amount of water to Pakistan would not reduce. Baglihar hydro electric power project was built 150 km north of Jammu in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) on October 10, 2008. This project would have an installed capacity of 900-MW, with a price tag of over US$ 1 billion. There were many impediments and controversies. Some of the objections were:
(1) Indian manipulation of IWT (which allowed India under carefully specified conditions to tap the hydropower potential of the three western rivers) that dam was built on “run-of-the-river”.
(2) Design parameters were too lax to provide India with excessive ability to accelerate, decelerate or block flow of river.
(3) It gave India a strategic leverage in times of tension or war with Pakistan.
(4) Frequent landslides while constructing diversion tunnels, proved the unsuitability of the dam.
(5) It was built on extremely sensitive seismic zone.
(6) It would dry some 5.6 million acres of land in Sialkot, Gujranwala, Jhang, Faisalabad and Sheikhupura.
For full article:
Pakistan Observer - Newspaper online edition - Article