Pakistan dumps $21bn worth of water in the sea each year: IRSA

[volatile]

https://www.dawn.com/news/1367885
The Indus River System Authority (Irsa) told the Senate Forum for Policy Research on Thursday that Pakistan dumps water worth approximately $21 billion into the sea each year due to a lack of water conservation systems.

In a meeting of the forum, chaired by Nayyar Husain Bukhari, members of Irsa and the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) made shocking revelations while briefing attendees about Pakistan's lack of water conservation systems and water distribution to provinces.

"The country needs three Mangla-sized dams to conserve the amount of water that goes to sea each year," Irsa members told the meeting while informing them that Pakistan faces a 36 per cent shortage in its water requirements at the moment.

If no water reservoirs are made, the country faces an extreme water shortage in the coming years, Irsa members said as they endorsed the long-overdue creation of the Kalabagh Dam.

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Pakistan can only store up to 30 days' worth of water, while India can store up to 320 days' worth, Irsa members informed the meeting while stressing upon the need for more reservoirs in the country.

"Kalabagh dam can be completed in five years," a PCRWR member said, but told officials that the Akhoori Dam can also be developed as an alternative to Kalabagh.

"Do not talk about the Kalabagh Dam after three provinces have voted against it; discuss alternative plans with us," said Jahanzeb Jamaldini.

The inflow of rivers Indus, Chenab, Kabul and Jehlum has dropped and as a result, this year's crop may be severely affected, Irsa members informed the meeting.

Water levels in Islamabad are falling by one metre each year and six metres in Balochistan, Irsa officials warned the officials. PCRWR members warned that out of 43 lakes in Pakistan, the levels of 26 have dropped drastically in the past few years, while the country remains without a National Water Policy.

To top it all off, the country's population is on the rise at an alarming rate which is also adding to its water woes, PCRWR told the meeting.

"Shortage is a common problem; the question is what are we doing to deal with it," the meeting's chair responded.

 

[El Sidd]

Sharjeel Memon and Asim Hussain were actually preparing a draft for the water en-catchment along with Achakzai and Sharifs.

#PaaniKiyonZayaKiya

 

[Maarkhoor]

https://www.dawn.com/news/1367885
The Indus River System Authority (Irsa) told the Senate Forum for Policy Research on Thursday that Pakistan dumps water worth approximately $21 billion into the sea each year due to a lack of water conservation systems.

In a meeting of the forum, chaired by Nayyar Husain Bukhari, members of Irsa and the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) made shocking revelations while briefing attendees about Pakistan's lack of water conservation systems and water distribution to provinces.

"The country needs three Mangla-sized dams to conserve the amount of water that goes to sea each year," Irsa members told the meeting while informing them that Pakistan faces a 36 per cent shortage in its water requirements at the moment.

If no water reservoirs are made, the country faces an extreme water shortage in the coming years, Irsa members said as they endorsed the long-overdue creation of the Kalabagh Dam.

ADVERTISEMENT
Pakistan can only store up to 30 days' worth of water, while India can store up to 320 days' worth, Irsa members informed the meeting while stressing upon the need for more reservoirs in the country.

"Kalabagh dam can be completed in five years," a PCRWR member said, but told officials that the Akhoori Dam can also be developed as an alternative to Kalabagh.

"Do not talk about the Kalabagh Dam after three provinces have voted against it; discuss alternative plans with us," said Jahanzeb Jamaldini.

The inflow of rivers Indus, Chenab, Kabul and Jehlum has dropped and as a result, this year's crop may be severely affected, Irsa members informed the meeting.

Water levels in Islamabad are falling by one metre each year and six metres in Balochistan, Irsa officials warned the officials. PCRWR members warned that out of 43 lakes in Pakistan, the levels of 26 have dropped drastically in the past few years, while the country remains without a National Water Policy.

To top it all off, the country's population is on the rise at an alarming rate which is also adding to its water woes, PCRWR told the meeting.

"Shortage is a common problem; the question is what are we doing to deal with it," the meeting's chair responded.

Only solution is Kala-Bagh dam which went in to cold storage just because we don't have any courageous leader, Once I build hope during Musharraf's era but again bloody politics made his legs jelly.

 

[volatile]

Sharjeel Memon and Asim Hussain were actually preparing a draft for the water en-catchment along with Achakzai and Sharifs.

#PaaniKiyonZayaKiya

http://www.pakistaneconomist.com/issue2003/issue40/i&e3.php
This is what happens when there are millitary coupe in country
Some lines from the links

THE CONTROVERSY

Perhaps the single most important reason for the strong sentiments that Kalabagh project invokes is the shroud of secrecy surrounding its planning. The critics say that the mega project favoured by a single province and the secrecy surrounding the planning, designing and implementation of the project has made smaller provinces extremely suspicious. They also say that the insistence to build Kalabagh in an era when big dams have gone out of fashion globally and when other possible alternatives are available is dividing the people at a time when unity is most essential.





Critics also blamed WAPDA for creating the controversy for failing to consult the provinces at all stages of the project from planning, designing and implementation till the completion of its detail design as late as by 1985. Otherwise, what could explain the strong opposition to the Kalabagh project in the late 1980s after receiving initial good response after the submission of feasibility study in 1975?

The statements from the responsible officials of the federal government have also created confusion instead of clarifying the issue. For instance, the government of Punjab as well as WAPDA first declared Kalabagh dam as only a storage dam to offset the storage loss of Tarbela and Mangla Dams due to sedimentation. Later it was promoted as a project vital for generation of inexpensive hydel power and still later it was announced that the project would also have Left and Right Bank canals for irrigation purposes. This perpetually changing additions and the ensuing confusion helped turn the project into a controversial mess that its in today.

The lack of public disclosure of all the relevant facts regarding selection criteria, planning parameters, design guidelines, cost estimates, environmental and socio-economic assessments, government's priorities, and financing mechanism of the planned construction have also added fuel to the fire. Also missing is the impact of the project on the human displacement in a country where tens of thousands of affectees of the other dams remain uncompensated after the passage of decades and also the concerns about the impact that would have on the environment and the surrounding areas. The situation is further complicated in a country where rows between the provinces about the equitable distribution of water despite the presence of Indus River System Authority, a high-level body constituted just this for purpose.

 

[El Sidd]

http://www.pakistaneconomist.com/issue2003/issue40/i&e3.php
This is what happens when there are millitary coupe in country
Some lines from the links

THE CONTROVERSY

Perhaps the single most important reason for the strong sentiments that Kalabagh project invokes is the shroud of secrecy surrounding its planning. The critics say that the mega project favoured by a single province and the secrecy surrounding the planning, designing and implementation of the project has made smaller provinces extremely suspicious. They also say that the insistence to build Kalabagh in an era when big dams have gone out of fashion globally and when other possible alternatives are available is dividing the people at a time when unity is most essential.





Critics also blamed WAPDA for creating the controversy for failing to consult the provinces at all stages of the project from planning, designing and implementation till the completion of its detail design as late as by 1985. Otherwise, what could explain the strong opposition to the Kalabagh project in the late 1980s after receiving initial good response after the submission of feasibility study in 1975?

The statements from the responsible officials of the federal government have also created confusion instead of clarifying the issue. For instance, the government of Punjab as well as WAPDA first declared Kalabagh dam as only a storage dam to offset the storage loss of Tarbela and Mangla Dams due to sedimentation. Later it was promoted as a project vital for generation of inexpensive hydel power and still later it was announced that the project would also have Left and Right Bank canals for irrigation purposes. This perpetually changing additions and the ensuing confusion helped turn the project into a controversial mess that its in today.

The lack of public disclosure of all the relevant facts regarding selection criteria, planning parameters, design guidelines, cost estimates, environmental and socio-economic assessments, government's priorities, and financing mechanism of the planned construction have also added fuel to the fire. Also missing is the impact of the project on the human displacement in a country where tens of thousands of affectees of the other dams remain uncompensated after the passage of decades and also the concerns about the impact that would have on the environment and the surrounding areas. The situation is further complicated in a country where rows between the provinces about the equitable distribution of water despite the presence of Indus River System Authority, a high-level body constituted just this for purpose.

I can easily solve the riddle.

Zia ul Haq is to be blamed.

 

[war&peace]

No!!! we don't need dams for storage and power generation.
We should go with coal based power generation because its cheap, clean, blah blah..

 

[volatile]

Only solution is Kala-Bagh dam which went in to cold storage just because we don't have any courageous leader, Once I build hope during Musharraf's era but again bloody politics made his legs jelly.

Please see links the controversy started by PRO American bureaucrats in WAPDA in 1980s which were further strengthen after Ghulam Ishaq khan appointed many folks from KPK without even proper degrees of the time and with biases against Punjab .Musharaf would have made it and it would have been the biggest achievement but he was a coward and just trying to stay in power

 

[El Sidd]

No!!! we don't need dams for storage and power generation.
We should go with coal based power generation because its cheap, clean, blah blah..

yeah if you were in Lahore you cant see the next building in smog.

power to the coal.

lets all become sun worshipers and install solar plants.

Politicians have lost the battle and the Pakistani public have won.

they can dance to whatever the tune their masters wants to play.

No fukks will be given.

 

[volatile]

I can easily solve the riddle.

Zia ul Haq is to be blamed

No Zia wasnt to be blamed but pro US burecracy was to be blamed later Ghulam Ishaq favourtism in promoting people in WAPDA from KPK with biasness

 

[El Sidd]

No Zia wasnt to be blamed but pro US burecracy was to be blamed later Ghulam Ishaq favourtism in promoting people in WAPDA from KPK with biasness

this is ancient history.
no body cares if the harrappan had a bias for shagging the greeks.
discuss what is happening now and that is political elite have no control over the country so all this information is just that. information

 

[ashok321]

21 billion is too much money.
How did they translate this water into 21 billion dollars?

 

[El Sidd]

21 billion is too much money.
How did they translate this water into 21 billion dollars?

Bisleri bottle

 

[volatile]

this is ancient history.
no body cares if the harrappan had a bias for shagging the greeks.
discuss what is happening now and that is political elite have no control over the country so all this information is just that. information

Same hide and seek was played in 70s/80s/90s and same is happening . The players behind the door are the main culprits by the way right now political elites are trying to deliver 16000 MW electricity but we are making sure that nothing the likes of that happened , All nations learn from their past

 

[Kambojaric]

Only solution is Kala-Bagh dam which went in to cold storage just because we don't have any courageous leader, Once I build hope during Musharraf's era but again bloody politics made his legs jelly.

That dam will never come into existence till ethnic-provincial minded politicians exist. Parties like ANP, PPP have an anti-Punjab field day every time this dam is mentioned. And then you have some deluded Indians/foreigners thinking that Punjab runs Pakistan! Cant even get a bloody dam built for decades yet somehow evil Punjabis dominate everyone in Pakistan.

21 billion is too much money.
How did they translate this water into 21 billion dollars?

Probably a mixture of the cost associated with the import of fossil fuels for the purposes of electricity generation and pollution from said fossil fuels (which is not tangible and therefore hard to quantify). Sounds extreme I agree, but there is no doubt that we waste a great amount of water every year. The below project should help reduce this waste somewhat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kachhi_Canal_Project

 

[El Sidd]

Same hide and seek was played in 70s/80s/90s and same is happening . The players behind the door are the main culprits by the way right now political elites are trying to deliver 16000 MW electricity but we are making sure that nothing the likes of that happened , All nations learn from their past

that is cute

Altaf Zardari and Sharif are the awaited Messiah