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Dilemma of Kalabagh Dam and Pakistan Future 2917 Muhammad Iqbal et al./ Elixir Bio. Diver. 35 (2011) 2917-2920 Available online at www.elixirpublishers.com (Elixir International Journal) Bio Diversity Elixir Bio. Diver. 35 (2011) 2917-2920 Dilemma of kalabagh dam and Pakistan future Muhammad Iqbal 1 and Khalid Zaman 2 1Department of Development Studies, Comsats Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan. 2Department of Management Sciences, Comsats Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan. ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Article history: The purpose of this study is to explore the importance of Kalabagh dam in the perspective of Received: 11 April 2011; Pakistan. In addition, the study observes different views of the residents which cover all four Received in revised form: provinces of Pakistan namely, Sindh, Punjab, Khyber PukhtoonKhawa (KPK) and 20 May 2011; Baluchistan. The importance of Kalabagh dam in Pakistan is related with electricity Accepted: 27 May 2011; generation capacity which will meet the country’s power requirement. There has some reservation regarding construction of the dam. Sindh province objects that their share of the Keywords Indus water will be curtailed as water from the Kalabagh will go to irrigate farmlands in Kalabagh dam, Punjab and Khyber PukhtoonKhawa at their cost. KPK province of Pakistan has concerns Electricity generation, that large areas of Nowshera (district of KPK) would be submerged by the dam and even Power requirement, wider areas would suffer from water-logging and salinity. Further, as the water will be Pros and Cons, stored in Kalabagh dam as proposed Government of Pakistan, it will give water level rise to Pakistan. the city that is about 200 km away from the proposed location. Baluchistan is not directly affected by the dam as such, however, most nationalist Balochis claim the dam an instance of Punjab lording it over the smaller provinces. They have however, not included the dam in any of their state. Punjab needs more water to keep up with the growing population and industrial demands on its agriculture, therefore, the dam at Kalabagh would also supply cheap hydro-electric power to the whole country. The results of the study are of value to both academics and policy makers. © 2011 Elixir All rights reserved. Introduction 1998 session warned the nation that if immediate steps were not Water has become a source of conflict among many taken to develop our water resources and evolve a prudent water countries of the world. In Pakistan situation appears to be more management policy the country may face a worst water crisis serious as the federating units are heading towards a riparian war leading to a war for water between the various provinces of the in the next few years if remedial measures are not taken country (Khan, 1998). The present drought in many parts of the immediately. The present drought in Baluchistan and some parts country especially in Sindh and Baluchistan has confirmed the of Sindh causing deaths and immense miseries of people has fears expressed about two years back and awakened the sleeping brought of the issue of scarcity of water into the lime light (GoP, authorities to the urgency of the problem. The present water 1997). A country like Pakistan cannot remain complacent at a crisis is not only a manifestation of the mismanagement in the time when governments, citizens groups and multinationals all use of water resources since independence but also a warning of over the world are worried over the threat of a severe water a looming riparian war between the provinces in which the crisis by the end of the first quarter of the new century. A world federation could be swept away in the deluge of incompetence, water shaft in the Netherlands came up with alarming forecasts shortsighted, corrupt and self centered policies. All attempts to about future water shortages in many parts of the globe. As increase the agricultural produce to feed the teeming millions bulging populations and growing industrial and agricultural may fail as much lesser water will be available in the coming needs push up demand for fresh water all the time (household years from the present river system as water storage in Tarbella use of water worldwide will go up by 70 per cent in the next and Mangla Dams would be reduced due to sedimentation. The twenty years), water quarrels can spark wider regional and answer lies in construction of more dams. Unfortunately the two international conflicts. Already, fresh water reserves of a large proposed dams KalaBagh and Bhasha have been victims of number of underdeveloped societies are under immense political controversy for the past over 2 decades. During this pressure. Many water sources are either drying up or have been period the shortsighted and incompetent authorities could not polluted beyond rehabilitation. The poorest regions of the world devise alternative arrangements to the stop and store the colossal are also the worst hit by this deepening crisis (Abramovitz, waste of water during flood seasons. Belatedly, the real extent of 1996). Whereas the developed countries have adequate water the dreadful damage that drought has wrought upon the people conservation, recycling and supply mechanisms to meet most of of Baluchistan and interior Sindh is now being officially their needs, countries like Pakistan have yet to take stock of the acknowledged. The number of displaced citizens in Baluchistan full extent of the crisis that will soon take its toll. is over one million, for whom 35 relief centres in place so far. The Minister for Water and Power in the ousted Nawaz Amir-ul-Mulk Mengal, the provincial governor, estimates that Sharif government Mr. Gohar Ayub Khan, while pleading for over two million animals have died. The livestock loss, in construction of Kalabagh Dam in the National Assembly in late monetary terms, runs into billions. Twenty-two of Baluchistan Tele: E-mail addresses: [email protected] © 2011 Elixir All rights reserved 2918 Muhammad Iqbal et al./ Elixir Bio. Diver. 35 (2011) 2917-2920 26 districts — covering 43 per cent of Pakistan's total land mass and has also barren-ed a large area of Punjab province by taking — have been declared calamity-hit. In Thar, Sindh, 127 deaths out three rivers. Punjab's view is that a dam of above 3GW have been recorded because of the drought — though he production can finish all the energy crisis of Pakistan. Overall, it qualifies the number of the dead with the adverb “only" and will help Pakistan to grow further as electricity produced by adds that “the situation is not as bad as being reported in the water is cheapest compared to all other resources. Punjab has press". It is inconceivable that the making of the drought disaster also agreed not to claim any royalty on generation of resources could have remained unnoticed through all these years. That it from Kalabagh dam. was allowed to turn so bad is unforgivable. To call this disaster a Sindh view Point natural calamity is to pass the blame on to fate and condone the Sindh objects that their share of the Indus water will be criminal apathy of policymakers and local administrative setups curtailed as water from the Kalabagh will go to irrigate (DFID, 1998). farmlands in Punjab and Khyber PukhtoonKhawa at their cost. Despite global shortage of water, Pakistan can still be Sindhi people hold that their rights as the lower riparian have surplus in its water requirement provided the waste of huge precedence according to international water distribution law. water can be checked. According to Economic Survey of The coastal regions of Sindh require a constant flow of water Pakistan (2010), Pakistan is most unfortunate to waste 60% of down the Indus into the Arabian Sea so that the flowing water its life saving water in seepage and floods due to chronic and can keep the seawater from intruding inland. Such seawater gross water mismanagements. At the same time, it is the victim intrusion would literally turn vast areas of Sindh's coast into an of repeated wrong planning of its land and water resources to arid saline desert, and destroy Sindh's coastal mangroves. With produce food. All this is due to the apathetic and inert attitude of the construction of dams, such as Mangla Dam and Tarbella the technocrats, bureaucrats, politicians and the government as Dam across the Indus, Sindhis’ have seen the once-mighty Indus no national policy on water development was framed even after turned into a shadow of its former glory downstream of the Kotri signing the Indus Water Accord. It is lamentable that even after Barrage up to Hyderabad. They fear that there simply is not 10 years fertile lands under irrigated agriculture in the Indus enough water for another large dam across the Indus, let alone Basin ruined by water logging and salinity is not recovered. This three. The Kalabagh site is located in a highly seismic zone shows incapability to handle and develop water resources by near an active fault, and the underlying rocks are likely to implementing Integrated Comprehensive Water Management contain numerous fractures, causing the reservoir water to seep (ICWM). The root of the water problem is the failure of the through the catacomb of fractures and discharge at the lowest successive governments and the civic authorities to plan and point around the reservoir and the Indus river. Damming the manage the country's water resources in such a way as to make Indus has already caused a number of environmental problems the optimum use of them. There are certain quirks of nature that that have not yet addressed. Silt deposited in the proposed cannot be changed but they can be neutralized. For instances, the Kalabagh dam would further curtail the water storage capacity 140 million acre feet of surface water in Pakistan comes from of Manchar Lake and other lakes and of wetlands like Haleji the snows and glaciers in the mountainous north.
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