tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87422070628360946462024-03-21T06:18:14.781-07:00Fateh Gandapur's Blog on Water Issues of PakistanEngr. Fateh Ullah Khan Gandapur writes on Water Issues of Pakistan and its SolutionsEngr. Fateh Ullah Khan Gandapur 1925-2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/05168447883122388737noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8742207062836094646.post-69596046603784729132012-11-28T09:32:00.002-08:002012-11-28T09:32:42.856-08:00Water Development in Pakistan is pre-requisite to change its culture, destiny, bring prosperity and eradicate terrorism<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="text-align: justify;">A hungry man will become mercenary
terrorist used by foreign agencies</span></div>
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Earth is a unique planet in the
universe. Its three-fourth area is covered with Water. Man is a unique creature
created by God in the universe and is gifted with Conscience to know what is good and what
is bad. The Quran reveals:-</div>
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“And He it is Who hath created
man from water” (25:54)</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“Allah
made every living thing of water” (21:50)” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“And
Allah hath created every animal of water. (<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This shows God created life out
of Water on earth to create humankind and made water as the source of his survival.
Man basically depends on Water, land and air to survive.</div>
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Pakistan is a land gifted with
enough water, excellent land and hard working farmers to produce food, creates
jobs, earn money and create conditions of peace. Pakistan has developed the
largest contiguous canal irrigation system in the world about 150 years ago.
The 180 million population of Pakistan depends on irrigated agriculture to
produce food for survival and earn source of living. Pakistan exports
agricultural products to the world besides meeting its food requirements and
other needs for agro-based industry. </div>
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For maintaining peace in the
region and in the world, the development of water to produce food, provide
jobs, bring prosperity is pre-requisite. This will permanently eradicate
terrorism. An earning and well-to-do- man, will never become terrorist to earn
source of living. </div>
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It is pre-requisite that for
water development, avoiding corruption, and increasing efficiency, excellent
governance is required. Moreover, for water development there should be no
dirty political interference. For smooth water development, a Master Plan must be
prepared and its implementation should be provided in the Constitution for
execution, within a specified time.</div>
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More over this country is highly negligent
in its water development. It suffers heavily due to many water issues, like
floods, salinity, silting of reservoirs. Water shortage, Power shorted and food
shortage since it is created. Moreover, Water Accord and Indus Waters Treaty
are almost failure. Lands are getting saline and out of cultivation due to lack
of drainage. These issues severely affected Pakistan economically besides affecting
the whole world directly and indirectly. The negligent state is a burden on
other nations. Poor governance invites terrorism but terror is never eradicated.
Huge Powers like Russia and USA invited trouble without foreseeing the consequences,
as billions and billions of dollars are wasted in wars to fight terrorism, but
war is never won after killing, and dislocating large population. On the
contrary war is exaggerated. </div>
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Alternately, if 15% money of the
long war was spent on Pakistan education and on its water developed, there
would have been no terror in Pakistan. Moreover, Kashmir dispute is also water
war, forcibly occupied by India. This dispute is not solved by UN for 60 years.
It is a time bomb for 2050. Kashmir is sign of UN failure. Islam teaches a
culture of peace, equity and justice. The Quran teaches;</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“If you kill one mankind is like if you have killed all
mankind”. </span>“If you have saved one mankind is like if you have saved all
mankind”.</div>
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Pakistan’s Water issues of
destructive nature caused poverty, ignorance and terrorism. Water Development
has shown change in culture and not the wars</div>
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A recent example of this fact is
quoted in case of Gomal Dam Project completed in 2012, though the network of canal
system is in progress with the USAID. The people of Kulachi Tehsil known as
Gandapur Tribe, touching its boundary with South Waziristan Agency were very
poor. They had no source of income except cutting fuel wood from the fields.
They used to sell their lands at the rate of Rs 2 to Rs 50 per Kanal. 0ne acre has 8 Kanals. Most of the young men joined the nearby
Taliban in South Waziristan Agency as adventurers. After the construction of
Gomal Dam, all young men came back to develop their lands as the value of land
per Kanal has reached from Rs40,000 to RS 110000/-. They are busy developing
their lands. Great change in their culture has been noticed. Similar is the
case of the poor farmers of Chashma Right Bank Canal in D.I Khan District. It
totally changed the culture of the people of D.I. Khan. This shows prosperity
through water development, swiftly changes the culture of the whole area. Let
us use this methods for peace as it is popular, humane, and the permanent source
of living rather wars, destruction, devastation, killing, waste of money,
destruction of economy and creating hatred against humankind. </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pakistan’s main water
and power issues are;<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Mismanagement of canal irrigation
system that is 150 years old, has highly incompatible canal design to match
agricultural water requirements of today, besides highly wasteful, wasting about
50 per cent of the water, out of about 100 maf that enters the network of canals.
This needs modernization of the canal irrigation system to save huge quantity
of water and irrigate more area to feed the rapidly growing population. The
canal irrigation system has become obsolete.</div>
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* Moreover, floodwater wastage ranges
between 122.804 maf to 0.281 maf each year. On the average the floodwater
wasted to sea is 35 maf. This shows Pakistan must build many dams to store
floodwater for irrigation and power generation. Pakistan has imposed self
poverty on itself.</div>
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* This essentially needs to build
the 35 maf, multipurpose, Katzarah Dam on the Indus that will store huge floodwater
going waste to sea, serve as flood control structure on the Indus, generate
power and serve as Water Shed management Dam to prevent silt, and prolong the
life of Basha Dam and all dams on the downstream.</div>
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* It essentially needs to build
the 8.5 maf, multipurpose, Guroh Dop Dam on Punjkora River, a major tributary
of Swat River. This will store water, generate power and control floods in
Kabul River. </div>
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If the above two dams were built in time, Pakistan
would have been safe against the devastating floods of 2010 and destructive
rainwater of 2011. There would have been no crippling load shedding. There
would have been no water shortage, besides no rapid silting of dams.</div>
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* To build substitute project for
Kalabagh Dam by changing its wrong design and adverse effects on provinces by providing
new concept of low dam-cum-high Fateh barrage
at an Ele: 700 . This will cost about $2 billion and build within two
years and 6 months. This will produce power on run-of-the-river from about 2000
MW to 6000 MW. It requires no land acquisition, no cost of compensation, and no
population movement.</div>
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* To build All Pakistan Grand
Canal, branching from Chashma Barrage and fed by Katzarah Dam to irrigate the
3.5 million acres of barren land of Kachi Plain in Baluchistan. This Project
discovered by me in 1961 is extraordinarily vital to develop Baluchistan. All
the above projects were discovered by me in 1961. Pakistan wasted time and
money by taking off Kachi canal from Mithan Kot. It failed and abandoned. </div>
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* Regarding Basha Dam on the
Indus, the World Bank has refused to fund it, asking Pakistan to get NOC from
India. The World Bank has ignored the fact given by Senator John Kerry that
India has built 32 hydraulic structures on Pakistani Rivers in the disputed
territory of Occupied Kashmir and is building more dams. It is very unfortunate
that the World Bank did not object in case of India who built dozens
dams/hydraulic structures without getting NOC from Pakistan.. This obviously
seems to be the political interference at that level. Please refer to John
Kerry report: </div>
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<b>“that India has acquired the ability to store enough water to limit the
supply of water to Pakistan at critical moment in the growing season”.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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* The refusal to finance Basha
Dam by the World Bank is in spite of the fact that Pakistan suffers due to
acute shortage of water and the crippling load shedding. Moreover, Pakistan has
built dams on the Indus, under the Indus Waters Treaty at Tarbela, Mangla and
Chashma. This means the World Bank violated the Indus Waters Treaty by not
financing a multipurpose dam on the Indus as Replacement to Tarbela. Pakistan also
lacks mega dam sites on the Indus except Basha Dam and Katzarah Dam. Other dam
sites on the Indus are for power generation. There are no dam sites on Kabul
River in Pakistan. NO dam sites on
Jehlum River and Chenab Rivers in Pakistan to store floodwaters going waste to
sea. </div>
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* Moreover, the storage-based Water
Accord, signed in 1991, is not yet implemented due to lack of storage dams. The
result is acute water and hydro-power shortage prevailing in spite of Water
Accord.</div>
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* The site for the Kalabagh Dam
Project proposed by WAPDA at the very end of the Indus valley in fifty’s was
unsuitable. Therefore, it became highly controversial politically. Also the
design of Kalabagh Dam became controversial technically between the Project
consultant and WAPDA. As a result, 50 years status quo was created by WAPDA. WAPDA
adopted a policy of “Kalabagh Dam or no dam”. The feasibility of Basha Dam was
prepared in 1981 but WAPDA did not build the dam because of Kalabagh
controversy. This created water and power crises.
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* Storage in Pakistan is
subjected to rapid silting due to no watershed management. Storage under the
Indus Waters Treaty at Tarbala, Mangla and Chashma are silted by 6.5 maf and
there is no replacement storage built so far. This will create more water and
power shortage in future.</div>
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* Pakistan, on the average waste
water to sea of about 35 maf each year. The range of wastage is between 122.804
maf to 0.787 maf. This shows the Indus River is highly erratic. Therefore it
needs to build several storage dams to support irrigated agriculture, provide
jobs, bring prosperity and create food for its rapidly growing population and for
export. This will prevent terrorism.</div>
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* For no dams, in 2010, about 22%
of Pakistan was destroyed causing loss of $ billions in property and killed
2000 people, besides displacing millions of population. Again in 2011, rains
hit the same areas causing more destruction. </div>
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* The other serious issue faced
by Pakistan is the salinity, sodicity, and water logging in the Indus basin
irrigated lands, rendering about 20 million acres of irrigated lands out of
cultivation. The world’s largest irrigation system is without its drainage
system since its construction, about 150 years ago. The saline drainage
effluent is accumulated as groundwater. Unfortunately, the drainage effluent that
becomes groundwater is pumped and used for the irrigation of lands due to shortage
of canal water. This injects another 350 million tons of injurious salts in the
soil each year.</div>
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* WAPDA started two drainage
schemes naming, SCARP and NDP on wrong concepts. Both schemes failed wasting
billions of dollars. After that WAPDA abandoned the drainage schemes as a bad
job. The colossal canal irrigation system is now without drainage system. </div>
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* During the partition of India,
Pakistan was compensated with a dam on the Indus at (Tarbela) and a dam on Jhelum
River at (Mangla). Both these dams rapidly silted up by 6.5 maf. This is a
great loss of water. On the contrary, India was allowed to divert the perennial
flows of two eastern rivers that are Ravi and Bias, depriving Pakistan of its
perennial flow and gave in return time-based storage water. <b>Pakistan was given part-time storage-based
non-perennial water for a limited period depending on the life of dam. Who will
now compensate this huge loss of 6.5 maf of water periodically occurring all
the time?</b></div>
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* In 1959, I discovered Khajuri
Katch dam site on Gomal River. The site was highly appreciated by our
consultants, namely HARZA International. Work started on the dam. Unfortunately
there was no progress. The dam was only completed in 2012 that is after 52
years delay. The canal network is now being completed with the help of the
Government of USA. </div>
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* In 1961, I was appointed in
Dams investigation Division. I discovered 12 mega, multipurpose dam sites.
WAPDA, ignored these dams. All these projects are unique some of these are
quoted above. </div>
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Engr. Fateh Ullah Khan Gandapur 1925-2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/05168447883122388737noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8742207062836094646.post-10025519941450910972012-09-06T00:42:00.001-07:002012-09-06T00:42:03.575-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Appeal for restoration of water rights
as per Riwaj-e-abpashi usurped </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">by WAPDA by thrusting varying cropping intensities </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b>The water rights of Gandapurs in Gomal Zam fixed under the Riwaj-e- abpashi / Kulayat in 1880 and the Bolton Irrigation
Notes of 1908 considered as the Bible of Rod Kohi, are disregarded by WAPDA<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>WAPDA usurped Kulachi Tehsil Water Rights by changing its established
and recognized water rights in the Riwaj-e-Abpashi to adopt changing cropping
intensities that needs changed water supplies whereas, the Rivaj-e-abpashi
provides water on equitable basis.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Agriculture Department of KPK Govt: on the advice of WAPDA wrongly prepared
PC-I, by inducting varying cropping intensities for Gomal Zam Project. It drastically
reduced Water rights of Kulachi Tehsil.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>WAPDA knowingly violated the old and established Riwaj-e-Abpashi of
1880, by not obeying the instructions of irrigation department and the PCC,
built canal network on the basis of cropping intensities, depriving Kulachi
Tehsil of its floodwater rights in Gomal Zam by half (423 cuscs).<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Request to issue stay order, and stop further illegal construction of
canals, remodel canal network to restore equitable water rights as in the Riwaj-e-abpashi
and include the area of Kulachi Tehsil ignored from irrigation. This area is
called ‘Left Over Area’</b><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Farmers
of Gomal Zam command area of Kulachi Tehsil with 90% water share not consulted
while preparing the PC-I, therefore PC-I wrongly prepared and project wrongly
executed by WAPDA. It needs correction to avoid water war.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b>Kulachi Tehsil has 90 % share in floodwater of Gomal Zam as per
Riwaj-e-abpashi 1880 that distributes floodwater on equitable basis for all
areas, and not on the basis of varying cropping intensities. This illegally
reduced Kulachi Tehsil water share from 811 to 425 cusecs. A loss of 386 cusecs
of water as it adopted 60%, 100, and 120% cropping intensity on the same kind
of land, with the same alluvial soil, in an area where people have equal water
rights under the Riwaj-e-abpashi.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Tank Tehsil has only 5% share in Gomal Zam water but is illegally given
381 cusecs against its established perennial water share of 30 Janders or 30
cusecs in Gomal Zam violating the Riwaj-e-abpashi and depriving Kulachi Tehsil
by 386 cusecs. One Jander is considered equal to one cusec.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Tank Tehsil has legal share of perennial water only of 30 Jander or 30
cusecs in Gomal Zam flow, and not in
floodwater. Floodwater only belongs to Kulachi and Dera Tehsils. Discharge over
30 cusecs is considered floodwater.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>In the preparation of PC-I, it was the duty of the Government to have
consulted the major owners of floodwater of Kulachi Tehsil as per the
Riwaj-e-Abpashi and the Gandapur farmers Association to know the local and
traditional water rights of the respective areas under Gomal Zam River since
1880. The Gandapurs waited for the construction Gomal dam a century ago as Gomal Zam destroyed its area
by forming ravines.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Those who prepared the PC-I by violating the Riwaj-e-abpashi, and
without the consultation of land owners are responsible for the loss and its
consequences and for committing unpardonable blunder.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>The Government may hold inquiry and fix responsibility on all those who
illegally introduced varying cropping intensities in an area where water rights
are fixed under the Riwaj-e-abpashi, prepared the PC-I without consultation,
have sown the seed of disputes by violating the law of land and wasted USAID.
They must be dealt with according to law.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>The forcing of varying cropping intensities by WAPDA and changing water
rights will surely create disputes as it reduced the water rights of Kulachi
Tehsil by about half and gave 13 times more water to the undeserving area of
Tank Tehsil. This deprived the people of Kulachi of their source of living. Please
note there is no concept of varying cropping intensities in the Riwaj-e-abpashi
as it violates the centuries old Kuliyat/Riwaj-e-abpashi.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>PC-I makers must ensure and protect the water rights of all farmers.
The officials who prepared the PC-I should have first investigated and visited
the proposed areas, obtain views of the farmers, got the record of water rights
from the Revenue Departments of all the three Tehsils, and should have
discussed the issue of varying cropping intensities of 60%, 100% and 120% with
the major land owners of Kulachi farmers. Cropping intensities involves drastic
change in water rights and in the Riwaj-e-abpashi. This change is offending as it sows the seeds
of water war. Instead of bring prosperity the Gomal Zam Development will bring
misery, infighting, deaths and destruction. PC-I may be revised.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>It is lamentable why this terrible blunder is committed.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>It will be very interesting to know that Tank Tehsil has its own big river,
namely Tank Zam with dam site at Hanis Tangi, already approved for
construction. Tank Tehsil has its own separate catchment area and hydrologic
zone of Tank Zam. Kulachi Tehsil has its own separate catchment area and
hydrologic zone of Gomal Zam.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The sponsoring authorities for the Gomal
Zam Project include the following:-<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Government of KPK, Department of Agriculture,
Livestock and cooperatives</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->The US Agency for International Development
(USAID)</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Farmers of the Gomal Zam Dam’s command area to
be developed under the proposed Project. <b>(This
is wrong, the farmers are not consulted).</b> </div>
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The Department of Agriculture and
the USAID Agency both have prepared the PC-I on the advice of WAPDA, the two sponsors
have no knowledge of the established and recognized water rights of the three
Tehsils under the Riwaj-e-Abpashi of 1880. The consultation of Revenue Record
is pre-requisite for the preparation of PC-I on which the project is based and
the water rights are ensured. These two sponsoring agencies have no idea about
the water rights share in floodwater of Kulachi Tehsil, Tank Tehsil and Dera
Tehsil. The Gandapur farmers were ignored. </div>
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The PC-I is therefore prepared at
random, in routine, and on the advice of WAPDA without verification of facts,
without consulting the concerned farmers, their water rights in the project
area, and without consulting the Revenue Departments. As such <b>the major water owners, the farmers of Kulachi Tehsil, are deprived of
their water rights. Their water rights are not confirmed from the District and Tehsils
Revenue officials.</b> It is wrong to claim that the third sponsor, namely the
farmers of Kulachi Town were consulted. </div>
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It was binding on those who
prepared the PC-I that the PC-I should have been based on ground facts, the
Riwaj-e-abpashi, and not on the basis of the varying cropping intensities at
random falsely naming a group that is, the farmers of the Gomal Zam Dam’s
command area—the Gandapurs. The cropping intensities have been included in the
PC-I to favor Tehsil of Tank at the cost of Kulachi Tehsil. This must be revised
to match Riwaj-e-abpashi.</div>
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One cannot imagine that the water
rights of Kulachi Tehsil, is grabbed to favor Tank Tehsil, though Gandapurs faced the fury of Gomal Zam for more than a century.</div>
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The major owner of water of
Kulachi Tehsil, that is, the farmers of Gomal Zam Dam’s command area to be
developed under the proposed project are absolutely ignored. The concerned farmers are not consulted while preparing the
PC-I. They came to know that they are deprived of their water rights when the
canal network was being laid in their area on the basis of 60% cropping
intensities that reduced their water rights by about half. .</div>
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It’s a great blunder that the
owners of water in Kulachi Tehsil are deprived of their legal share and water
is given to Tank Tehsil who does not own the floodwater of Gomal Zam. This will
create law and order problems and damage the project, the source of earning and
prosperity. </div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->The 90% area having water rights as per
Riwaj-e-abpashi in Gomal Zam lies in Kulachi Tehsil where Gandapurs reside for
the past 450 years. </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Forced
cropping intensities violated Riwaj-e-abpashi 1880 and water rights of
Gandapurs<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->In view of the equitable water rights, a varying
cropping intensity of 60%, 100% and 120% cannot be forced on the area in
violation of the Riwaj-e-abpashi because this will deprive one area of its
water rights and benefit the other undeserving area by13 times its water
rights. Riwaj-e-abpashi gives equitable water rights to all areas.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Cropping intensities should be planned by a
farmer within his own land, using his own share of water in view of the record
of rights. The aspect of cropping intensities should be left to the will of the
farmers and how economically he uses water. The area should not be forced to
adopt varying cropping intensities not provided in the Riwaj, as this will
reduce water rights of one area by half and give 13 times more water to the
other undeserving area. This is in violation of the Riwaj-e-abpashi.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Life of storage water of Gomal Reservoir limited due
to silting<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->A storage reservoir has limited life span. It is
recommended to change the method of application of water and use water through
sprinkler and drip irrigation for raised cropping intensities. Also carry water
through pipes, replacing water courses. This will irrigate lands more than two
times or raise cropping intensity from 150% to 200%. Water rights should not be curtailed by inducting
varying cropping intensities. Cropping intensities should not be forced. </div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Moreover, law may be framed to plant 10% of farmer
land with fruit trees to improve environment, mitigate climate change and
generate income. The Government may be requested to carry out water shed
management in the catchment area of Gomal Zam to increase the useful life of Adom
Kok Reservoir of Khajuri Katch Dam. The Government should grow trees along the
Gomal Reservoir mountains range by using water from the reservoir. </div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->The PC-I is prepared on theoretical basis, in
routine, without considering the fact that Riwaj-e-abpashi gives equal water
rights irrespective of the cropping intensities.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->The PC-I is wrongly prepared depriving the area
of Kulachi Tehsil who have water rights. This resulted in the execution of
project on wrong basis. It has thus sown the seed of water war between the two
Tehsils of Kulachi and Tank.</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->The network of irrigation canals must be
re-planned on the basis of Riwaj-e-abpashi. The canal built on the basis of 60%
cropping intensity may be remodeled to carry water as per water rights.</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Water should not be allowed to flow in the canals
built on the basis of cropping intensities till these are remodeled. This is
vital to avoid bloody disputes.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->The Gandapur welfare farmers association
D.I.Khan must be consulted to hear their views on Riwaj-e-abpashi and water
record.</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->One fears if the grievances and water rights are
not set right in time, the Gandapur Tribe may create law and order problems to
seek their water rights, the source of their living. The adjoining Taliban getting
opportunity may join them to aggravate law and order. </div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->It may be noted that three Provincial
Coordination Committees dated 14.10.2002, and 24.1.2004 and 2007, the Project
Director Irrigation, the Advisor water, the Project Consultant Conny-ta-Biller,
Mr Bolton report 1908, Javed Ahmad Mirza report, Safi Assistant Commissioner
Tank, all insisted to follow the Riwaj-e-Abpashi and the implementation of the
project on the basis of Riwaj-e-abpashi. WAPDA stubbornly opposed all, violated
the Riwaj-e-abpashi and is building the canal network on the basis of varying
cropping intensities in violation of the Rivaj and the water rights. Moreover,
it illegally included the area of Tank Tehsil that has no floodwater rights and
‘left out’ the water rights area of Kulachi Town and around, and part area of Dea
Tehsil. </div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->WAPDA has misused USAID by the wrong execution
of the network of canals under the Gomal Dam Project. For this terrible
blunder, WAPDA and the Agriculture Department are responsible as one of them prepared the wrong PC-I, and the other is
executing the project on wrong basis in spite of opposition from three PCC
meetings, the Irrigation Department, the Project Director Irrigation and the
Revenue department.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->The Gandapur Association prays that the construction
of canal network of Gomal Zam on varying cropping intensities should stop.
Gandapurs water rights restored as per Riwaj-e-abpashi, Kuliyat, and Bandobast.
The canal work redesigned to carry water as per the water rights in the
Riwaj-e-abpashi and NOT on the basis of cropping intensities. The canal network
may be re-modeled.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Water rights area under Gomal Zam of
Kulachi Tehsil <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Area under Rod Kohi flood
Irrigation System in Kulachi Tehsil since 1880 is 143660 acres.</div>
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Area of Dera Tehsil under flood
irrigation from Rod Kohi before Gomal Dam = 30328 acres.</div>
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After the construction of CRBC,
out of 30328 acres, 20335 acres will be covered by CRBC.</div>
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The remaining area to be
irrigated from Rod Kohi floodwater is (30328- 20335= 9993 acres.</div>
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After this, Kulachi Tehsil is
entitled to cover its (143660+20335) = 163325 acres.</div>
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As such, Kulachi Tehsil has water
rights in Gomal Zam floodwater in 163325 acres. This area should be brought in
the CCA of the Project.</div>
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Kulachi Tehsil Land entitled to
receive Gomal Zam River water after the area of 20335 acres covered by CRBC=
143660+163325 acres.</div>
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Illegal Distribution of Gomal
floodwater by WAPDA after changing the water rights is violation of the
Riwaj-e-abpashi should be set right. The Bolton irrigation Notes of 1908 are
considered as the Bible of Rod Kohi but is violated by WAPDA.</div>
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In view of all above, we request the
honorable Court to stop building network of canals on the basis of 60%, 100%
and 120% cropping intensities, and distribute water as per the Riwaj-e-abpashi,
and remodel network of canals wrongly built accordingly to Riwaj-e-abpashi.
Till then the network of canals building be stopped.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Data on which Project is based by WAPDA
in violation of the Riwaj-e-Abpash<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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The perennial flow from the
Khajuri Katch Reservoir of Gomal Zam = 848 cusecs.</div>
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WAPDA has illegally and wrongly built
network of canals on the basis of varying cropping intensities, and distributed
water in the three Tehsils accordingly, ignoring the water rights and the
Riwaj-e-abpashi. This was also against the instructions of the PCC on three
occasions besides the advice of Project Director Irrigation and the Revenue
officials. The water distribution is as follows:-</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Perennial flow from Gomal Dam Reservoir equal to 848 cusecs</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Tank Tehsil 45% of 848 cusecs equal to 381 cusecs</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Kulachi Tehsil 50% of 848 cusecs equal to 425 cusecs</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Dera Tehsil 5% of the share of floodwater of Kuachi Tehsil
= 41.5 cusecs</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Kulachi Tehsil share on the basis of 90% of 848
cusecs = to 811 cusecs less Dera share</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Kulachi Tehsil deprived of its legal water share
by 848-425 cusecs= <i>423 </i>cusecs</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Tank Tehsil legal share in perennial water and
not in floodwater= 30 Jandars= 30 cusecs</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Tank Tehsil illegally given water = 381 cusecs
on the basis of cropping intensities</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Tank Tehsil water rights as per Riwaj= 30 Jandar
or 30 cusecs.</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Kulachi Tehsil entitled area to receive irrigation
water = (143660+20335)=163325 acres</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Dera Tehsil area 9993 acres</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Tank Tehsil
700 acres</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->The Rivaj-e-abpashi distributes uniform
floodwater to Kulachi and Dera Tehsils</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->The Riwaj does not distributes floodwater on the
basis of cropping intensities</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Tank Tehsil has no share in floodwater in the
Riwaj-e-abpashi</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Tank Tehsil has share only in perennial water up
to 30 Jander. Jander is equal to a cusec</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Perennial water more than 30 Janders is
considered as floodwater in Riwaj-e-abpashi</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Tank Tehsil has its separate river of <b>TANK ZAM </b>approved for construction.</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Kulachi Tehsil has its own separate river of
Gomal Zam with seperative catchment area and separate hydrologic zone. </div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->In view of above, we appeal for issuing immediate
stay orders, directing WAPDA to build network of canals as per water rights in
the Riwaj-e-abpashi, and undertake remodeling of canals accordingly. The canal
wrongly built on cropping intensity basis should be set right. </div>
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Engr Fateh Ullah Khan Gandapur 5.9.2012</div>
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Former Chairman Indus River
System Authority </div>
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Distinction holder in Dams and
Reservoir Engineering</div>
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Discoverer of 12 mega Dams in
Pakistan including Khajuri Katch dam site on Gomal Zam, and Tank Zam Dam, at Hanis
Tangi.</div>
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Engr. Fateh Ullah Khan Gandapur 1925-2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/05168447883122388737noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8742207062836094646.post-81891126650749613512012-08-25T00:43:00.001-07:002012-08-25T00:43:40.116-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">WAPDA interfered with Riwaj-e-abpashi by
reducing the legal water share of Gandapurs of Tehsil Kulachi by half, and illegally
increased the share of Tank Tehsil by 13 times, though Tank Tehsil is not
entitled for Gomal Zam flood water.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i>The Gandapurs in search of Justice
for water rights—the source of their living for centuries.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Water rights history of Gandapurs<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Gomal Zam is notorious for
causing flood havoc in Tehsil Kulachi. This very area has a history of
irrigation from Gomal Zam hill torrents ever since 300 years B.C. The Gandapurs
expelled ‘Kulachi Balochs’ from this area. The city of Kulachi was developed by
‘Kulachi Baloch’ named Hussain Khan. The Gandapures were a Pawinda tribe. They
came from the hills east of Kandahar in search of water and settled along the
banks of <b>Luni Stream, the major branch
of Gomal River,</b> about 450 years ago. Gomal Zam floodwater branches and spans
all over the Gandapur area of Kulachi Tehsil. This is why the soil of Kulachi
Tehsil is formed of deposited silt from the floodwater of Gomal Zam. Kulachi
was once a flourishing trade center and a fertile area as it was irrigated by
floodwater of Gomal Zam. It produced the sweetest melons in the world. Kulachi was
an agriculture city. </div>
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The Town of Kulachi was severely
damaged by the record flood of 1955 by Gomal Zam River. Gomal Zam floodwater
has eroded the soil of Kulachi Tehsil and formed ravines/Khads by the force of
floodwater. This history shows that Gomal Zam was irrigating the whole area of
Kulachi Tehsil by its floods and was the most productive area in food grains in
the district. Its people used to go up to
Calcutta for trading. </div>
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But the un-control floodwaters of
Gomal Zam destroyed this green area by land erosion and ravines formation,
changing the course of its flow, shifting flood irrigated area every now and
then, after breaching the Rod Kohi <b>bunds</b>
built under the Rod Kohi System of irrigation and then release floodwater to
the downstream area for more irrigation. As a result the agriculture produce
became uncertain as there was no control on the furious floods. As such, the
people focused on education and now there are a big number of highly educated
Gandapurs spread all over the world. Most of them are Doctors, engineers and in
various other professions and businesses. </div>
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The British officers reduced all
the working of floodwater irrigation, called <b>Rod Kohi irrigation</b> to writing during the “Land Settlement” in 1880
and 1908.<b> Mr Bolton irrigation Notes of
1908 are still considered as the Bible of Rod Kohi irrigation system. The
British officers who fixed the water rights of Gandapurs in Gomal Zam. </b>For
this, the then British Government prepared the ‘<b>Riwaj-e-Abpashi</b>, <b>kulyat, </b> fixing water rights of the whole area under
the command of Gomal River, in 1880, 1908. The Riwaj-e-abpashi covered the area
of Gandapurs where Gomal River floodwater spreads. D.I.Khan, its lower riparian
area was also given its floodwater share in Gomal River. </div>
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<b>Herbert Edwards said “Let me remind my readers that they need not go to
Kulachi, unless they are in search of two things, namely brave soldiers and
very sweet melons”. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Water rights of Gandapurs in
floodwater of <b>Gomal</b> Zam were
confirmed and finalized in <b>settlement</b>
by <b>Mr Bolton</b> in his last <b>settlement report</b> <b>in 1908. </b>This final report confirms that floodwater belongs to
Gandapurs, and to a few villages in Dera Tehsil. The floodwater of Gomal River has
its outfall in the Indus River. Kulachi Town formed the <b>pivotal center </b>of flood irrigation from Gomal Zam. </div>
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The 63 Km long main canal should
have passed through the Town of Kulachi. Surprisingly, this is ignored due to
poor knowledge of WAPDA. WAPDA deprived Kulachi Tehsil of its floodwater share as
it failed to cover the legal and entitled area for the use of floodwater stored
in Gomal Reservoir. Till recently Gandapurs of Kulachi Town were under the
destructive hit of the furry of Gomal Zam. Now, when the Gomal Zam is
controlled after the construction of Khajuri Katch Dam, a spectacular Dam site discovered
by <b>Engineer Fateh ullah Khan Gandapur </b>in
1959, the storage water that belongs to Gandapurs
are gifted by WAPDA to the people of Tank who are not at all entitled to
receive floodwater as under the Riwaj-e-abpashi the floodwater belongs to
Gandapurs.</div>
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<b>The LUNI River</b> bed remained the source of drinking water for the
people of Kulachi Town for centuries. The area around Kulachi is irrigated by
the floodwater of Gomal Zam in Luni Stream. </div>
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Kaur Nullah in Tank is not the
branch of Gomal Zam. It gets rainwater and feeds a few villages in Tank Tehsil.
The floodwater of Gomal Zam spreads into many branches in Kulachi Tehsil. </div>
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Gomal River feeds Kot Azam,
nullah Naskor, nullah<b> Cross wait (the
name of British Revenue Officer), Bolton Wah (another British revenue officer)</b>
and Khad Amani. All these branches of floodwater irrigated Gandapur area of
Kulachi Tehsil under the <b>Rod Kohi system.
</b>Historical facts establishes, the water rights of Gandapurs on Gomal River
since 1880, irrigating an area of 143660 acres. Similarly, the Gomal Zam floodwater
irrigates 30328 acres in Dera Tehsil from <b>LUNI
River, the main branch of Gomal River.</b> Now by the construction of CRBC,
about 20335 acres of Dera Tehsil is irrigated by the CRBC and the remaining
area of 9993 acres still depends on the floodwater of Gomal Zam. As a result, the
water share of 20335 acres will now be attached to Gandapur area.</div>
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As such, the floodwater of Gomal
Zam will now irrigate (143660+20335)= 163325 acres of Gandapurs of Kulachi Tehsil.
The Gomal Dam floodwater must cover 163325 acres of Kulachi Tehsil. This is the
<b>core area</b> of the Project for
irrigation under the Rod Kohi irrigation system. This established area must be
included in the PC-I, and the canal system remodeled accordingly <b>to cover 163,325 acres by the network of
canals in Kulachi Tehsil.</b></div>
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It is immaterial, if the
floodwater of this area is sufficient or not, it must uniformly cover an area
of 163,325 acres in the project boundary, and this area be included in the CCA
and the PC-I as per the water rights of Kulachi Tehsil and as per the <b>Riwaj-e-Abpashi/Kuliyat</b> of 1880, and
1908 and as per <b>Settlement. </b>As such,
the floodwater share comes to as follows:-</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Lands entitle to receive Gomal Zam River
water<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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* Kulachi Tehsil (143660+20335)= 163325 acres</div>
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* D.I.Khan Tehsil (9993 acres).</div>
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*Tank Tehsil (700 acres) </div>
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The Khajuri Katch dam site for Gomal
Zam was discovered by <b>Engr Fateh Ullah
Khan Gandapur</b> in 1959 as the then Project Director Gomal Zam. He also
discovered the dam site for <b>Tank Zam at
Hanis Tangi</b> and for all other hill torrents. <b>Engr Fateh ullah Khan is the discoverer of 12 multipurpose maga dams in
Pakistan when he was incharge of Dams Investigation Division. Tank</b> <b>Zam</b>
will shortly be built as it is already approved for construction. </div>
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The centuries old established
Riwaj-e-abpashi shows that 90% floodwater of Gomal Zam belongs to Gandapurs of
Kulachi Tehsil. </div>
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Please refer to Assistant
Commissioner Tank letter No: 319/NTI dated October 14, 1975. He said that
maximum amount of Kalapani, (perennial water) from Gomal Zam belongs to Tank
Tehsil. He did not mention the Floodwater of Gomal Zam. Tank Tehsil is entitled
to 30 <b><i>‘Jandar’</i></b> of <b>perennial
water that is about 30 cusecs of Kalapani and not the Floodwater from Gomal
Zam.</b> A discharge greater than 30 <b><i>‘Jandar’</i></b> is considered as
floodwater. </div>
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Please watch the confusing and
interfering behavior of WAPDA that plays political role under political
influence by ignoring the Centuries old established floodwater rights of
Gandapurs of Kulachi from Gomal Zam. WAPDA has illegally imposed its own whimsical
and illegal decision of floodwater distribution from Gomal Zam in <b>the garb of</b> <b>intensity of irrigation.</b> WAPDA does not know the Riwaj-e-abpashi as
90% floodwater of Gomal Zam belongs to Gandapurs of Kulachi. WAPDA should have planned
and built network of canal system accordingly. <b>The Gandapurs settled in this area about 500 years ago in search of
water.</b> They settled in Kulachi Tahsil along the bank of <b>LUNI River</b>, major branch of Gomal River
about 450 years ago. They depend for living on Gomal River floodwater for
irrigating their lands. This is why they settled on the Bank of the <b>Luni River</b> as that area was fertile. It
is not understood, why WAPDA a mere contractor in status is interfering in the
Riwaj-e-abpashi and changing the nature of Gomal River flow. Please see data
below.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Illegal distribution of Gomal floodwater
by WAPDA violating the Riwaj 1880<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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The Gomal Zam storage water of 381
cusecs out of 848 cusecs is illegally allotted by WAPDA on the basis of three <b>intensities of irrigation</b> that amounts to
cheating. It is bizarre. Tank has no water rights in Gomal floodwater. </div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Tank
45% equal to 381 cusecs</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Kulachi 50% equal to 425 cusecs</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Dera
5% equal to 42
cusecs</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Riwaje-abpasi’s authorized
distribution of Gomal Zam water as
follows:-<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Kulachi Tehsil (143669+20335)= 163325 acres. (Water
share 811 cusecs) but given 425 cusecs.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Tank Tehsil
(700 acres) (but Water share given
381 cusecs) against only 30 cusecs (30
Janders)</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Dera
Tehsil (9993 acrse) water 42 cusecs.</div>
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<b>It may be noted that Kulachi Tehsil has 90% share of Floodwater from
Gomal Zam whereas, WAPDA gave 50% floodwater ie 425 cusecs against 811 cusecs.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Using the trick of intensity of
irrigation to raise the floodwater share of Tank. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Please watch the trick of “<b>intensity of irrigation</b>” played by
WAPDA with the water rights of Gandapurs by usurping the floodwater of
Gandapurs, and favoring the people of <b>Tank
Tehsil that has only 30 cusecs perennial water share of water rights but is given
381 cusecs share in Gomal floodwater.</b> The trick lies in the induction of <b>three different cropping intensities</b>
that is 120%, 100%, and 60%. This will result in inequitable distribution of
water rights on the same canal though the <b>Riwaj-e-abpashi
provides equal water rights for all the land holders.</b> Those who are allowed
120% intensity of irrigation will get two times more floodwater than those who
are allowed 60% intensity of irrigation on the same canal. It is pointed out
that there is no concept of distributing water on the basis of varying
intensities of irrigation in the Riwaj-e-abpashi when people have equal water
rights. Cropping intensity on this project governed by Riwaj-e-abpashi is absolutely
irrelevant, as water is governed by the Riwaj-e-abpashi that cannot be
violated. <b>Let the farmers increase water
use efficiency by adopting Sprinkler and Drip irrigation methods to increase
intensity of irrigation as far as possible with the same quantity of water as
the storage water is crystal clear and the land is ideal. Besides this, resort
to “pipe Supply” replacing water courses to save seepage and evaporation
losses.</b></div>
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It is surprising that Gandapures
share in floodwater is arbitrarily <b>reduced
by half </b>and the share of Tank <b>Tehsil
is illegally increase by about 13 times.</b> (381 cusecs divided by 30
Jander/cusecs)= <b>13 times. All this is
under the pretext of intensity of irrigation. </b></div>
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It may be noted that WAPDA is<b> merely a contractor to obey the orders</b>
of the client, the owners of water, and the irrigation Department. WAPDA has no
legal authority to change the Riwaj-e-abpashi. It cannot interfere with the
Riwaj-e-abpashi and with the water rights of the people as established since
1880 and 1908. The Riwaj-e-abpshi is sacrosanct and no one can alter this. It
shows WAPDA has knowingly <b>committed a
crime that has sown the seeds of water war, disputes, law and order problem between
the people of Kulachi and the people of Tank that will result in bloodshed.</b>
This is extremely malicious and wicket to interfere in the Riwaj-e-abpashi and in
the water rights of the people. The Government should take immediate notice to
avert the ugly law and order situation.</div>
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<b>It is warned that the time-based Gomal Dam storage will lose its
storage capacity due to silting when irrigation from the storage reservoir will
stop due to water disputes.</b> The disputes will disrupt its functioning that
may continue for years when rapid silting of reservoir will reduce its storage
capacity. This will be a terrible blow to the Project. The discharge of 848
cusecs will be reduced by silting to a lower discharge that will hurt the
farmers. “It is said <b>“the death of the
reservoir starts the day it is built”. </b>WAPDA would be held responsible for
destroying the Gomal Dam Project by poking its nose in the Riwaj-e-abpashi, illegally
reducing the water rights of Gandapurs by half though it has no concern with
the Riwaj-e-abpashi. </div>
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<b>It is very vital that all the network of canal irrigation system should
be redesigned to carry water as per the water rights of the area forgetting the
cropping intensity.</b> Canals designed on the basis of 60% intensity of
irrigation should be redesigned and remodeled to carry water as per the water
rights of the area. The Gandapur area of Kulachi, about 163325 acres, must be
brought under the command of canal system and provided water as per its share
in the Riwaj. </div>
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Please refer to letter No:
18286/Rev dated 10.11.1973 from <b>Secretary
Board of Revenue.</b> It states that Tank, Kulachi and D.I.Khan are entitled to
get water from Gomal Zam according to the manner recorded in the record of
rights, Kuliyat/Riwaj-e-abpashi as per last settlement in 1968.</div>
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<b>Minutes of the Provincial coordination Committee (PCC) on Gomal
Zam dated 14.10.2002 <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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The committee said, Gomal Zam
floodwater and perennial water has historical and established water rights
based on the Rewaj-e-abpashi/Kuliyat. It further said, <b>the inclusion of land in the CCA having no water rights, and the
excluded area having water rights, may lead to litigation, law and order
problem and result in delaying the completion of the project. This should be
set right at once.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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To avoid litigation and
bloodshed, it is essential that lands having water rights are confirmed by
WAPDA from Revenue Authorities of both the districts before fixing alignment/chaks
of canal system. WAPDA disregarded all these clear instructions issued by the
PCC.</div>
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<b>The Project Director Irrigation</b> last month revealed that revenue
record shows that 107 Mouzas have water rights on Gomal Zam for Kulachi Tehsil,
against this, 67 Mouzas have been considered in the planning of irrigation
system within the project boundary. It is said; this blunder is committed by
WAPDA under political influence at the cost of Gandapurs. It needs correction
at the earliest. Water should not be released till the bitter problem is
corrected. WAPDA has committed a crime of theft, loss of trust, and lack of
responsibility.</div>
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During the planning of irrigation
system by WAPDA, it was estimated that the average inflow is 674Mm/year whereas
the network of canal system within the Project boundary is estimated to use
only 400Mm/year. This shows the remaining inflow of 200Mm/year is diverted to
unauthorized areas. This will not be available to Kulachi Tehsil to cover the
area of 107 Mouzas. It appears that the
water rights area of Rod Kohi of Kulachi Tehsil is intentionally ignored. <b>It appears WAPDA has usurped water rights of
(107-67)=40 Mouzas of Kulachi Tehsil and gifted it to Tank Tehsil illegally.</b>
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<b>The Project Director WAPDA </b>said, the aspect of water rights was
considered in the Feasibility study by the Consultant <b>MS Cyne-et-Biller and the water rights area is completely covered / included
in the CCA.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>But the Project Director Irrigation</b> was not satisfied with the indirect
and vague reply of the P.D. WAPDA in the first meeting of the PCC. P.D.
irrigation wanted more assurance and further confirmation. P.D. irrigation said
water rights must be confirmed as it is supreme, and shall be fully safeguarded.
He further emphasized that WAPDA will be responsible for including and
protecting the water rights of the land having water rights of Gomal River
water. This was WAPDA’s responsibility. Unfortunately, WAPDA did not listen to
any one, and large area of Kulachi Tehsil is ignored and not given their water
rights as provided in the Riwaj-e-abpashi. Thus WAPDA violated the 1880
established water rights of Gandapurs of Kulachi Tehsil.</div>
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The PC I initially adopted 86.5 %
intensity of irrigation on Gomal Zam for the entire CCA of 66000 ha. This is a
uniform intensity of irrigation based on equal water distribution as per the
Riwaj-e-abpashi. Refer to pages 28, 29. But<b>,
the Riwaj-e-abpashi does not mention the intensity of irrigation as there was
no such concept.</b> It was rather mentioned that <b>floodwater area </b>has more floodwater rights on storage water than
the area getting perennial flow under Gomal Zam as the dam is built to store
floodwater. In the use of floodwater under the Rod Kohi System of Irrigation,
there was no concept of intensity of irrigation. </div>
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Varying intensities of irrigation
results in inequitable distribution of floodwater that violates the
Riwaj-e-abpashi. This must be understood by WAPDA who are ignorant of these Centuries
old established customs and at the same time do not obey the instructions of others.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>The Project Director Irrigation</b> said the adoption of higher
intensity of irrigation of 120%, 100%, and 60% is not justified according to
the Riwaj-e-abpashi because water rights are equitable for all areas. It is not
required to introduce varying intensities of irrigation in Gomal Zam Project by
WAPDA. This is because, 90% floodwater belongs to Gandapurs of Kulachi as per
Riwaj-e-abpashi. WAPDA has wrongly built canal network, providing floodwater on
the basis of varying cropping intensities. This needs to be set right. </div>
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WAPDA has therefore wasted
billions of Rupees and time besides inciting
disputes and law and order problems. <b>This is because on the same canal one area will illegally get 13 times
more water than its share, whereas the other deserving area will get half of
its legal share in clear violation of the Riwaj-e-abpashi.</b> <b>The P.D.
Irrigation </b>did not agree with the <b>P.D.
WAPDA, </b>as varying cropping intensities will create disparity, and unequal
distribution of water in water rights, that is not just, as it violates the
Riwaj-e-abpashi. <b>This will create water
war, disputes, litigations and in-fighting.</b> This will cause great harm to <b>the time-based storage Project of Gomal
Zam.</b> WAPDA has clearly violated the water rights as provided in the
Riwaj-e-abpashi/Kuliyat and the <i>‘Bandobast’</i>.
<b>This needs immediate correction before
the water is released in the canal system otherwise, it will create terrible
law and order problems.</b> </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The illegality of varying intensities of
irrigation in the Riwaj-e-abpashi where the land owners have equal floodwater
rights.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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It is pointed out that intensity
of irrigation in Gomal Zam floodwater is absolutely irrelevant as floodwater
rights are equally distributed on the whole area under the Riwaj-e-abpashi. Varying
cropping intensities negates this basic principle of the water rights in the
Riwaj-e-abpashi. WAPDA officials are foreign to understand and appreciate the
local established water rights as provided in the Riwaj-e-abpashi enforced since
1880. Over and above this, WAPDA is obstinate to force its wrong wish, not
realizing what the client, the owners of water, the Irrigation Department, and
the local concerned peoples repeatedly say. The project should not be based on
inequitable distribution of floodwater rights for illegally enforcing varying
cropping intensities. <b>The Court may
direct WAPDA to stop its further activities till it restores water rights in
floodwater of Gomal Zam as per the Riwaj-e-abpashi / Kulyat of 1880 and 1908
and as per Land Settlement.</b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The crux of the matter and the ground
facts to be followed are:-<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Gomal River floodwater storage is fixed as 848
cusecs.</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->The Riwaj-e-abpashi distributes and provides
equal/uniform floodwater rights to all areas in Kulachi Tehsil and for Der
villages.</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->The legal area to receive floodwater of Kulachi
Tesil is known and is fixed in the CCA.</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->There is no concept of varying intensities of
irrigation in the Riwaj-e-abpashi as it results in inequitable distribution of
floodwater. The Riwaj distributes uniform floodwater of Gomal Zam on all areas
under its girdles/zone. What is the authority to defy these rules.</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Tank Tesil has no floodwater share from Gomal
Reservoir. Tank Tehsil has 30 cusecs /
30 Jandars of perennial floe from Gomal Zam.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Tank Tehsil has its own Major River named <b>Tank Zam shortly to be built.</b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The details of water rights of Gandapurs
as per Riwaj are given as follows:-<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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* Kulachi Tehsil water rights areas as per
Riwaj-e-abpashi. (143660+20335)=163325 acres.<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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* D.I.Khan area (30328 acres). Out of this CRBC
covered 20335 acres. Remaining 9993 acres to be irrigated from the floodwater of Gomal Zam
in Kulachi Tehsil being upper riparian. .</div>
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* Tank Tehsil has 700 acres to be irrigated from
Gomal Zam. </div>
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The floodwater of Gomal Zam equally
belongs to each land owner in Kulachi Tehsil. This cannot be altered/interfered
with. It depends on the farmers how they use their share of floodwater and to
what intensity of irrigation they achieve. The land is fixed, the water
quantity is fixed, therefore a uniform intensity of irrigation of 86.5% or
whatever it comes to, is to be achieved as assumed in case of equal
distribution of water. WAPDA cannot impose 120% and 60% intensity of irrigation
by illegally reducing the water rights of one area by <b>half,</b> and illegally raising water of the other area <b>by 13 times</b> as shown above. Here, on
Gomal Zam Rewaj-e-abpashi is the law on floodwater use. This is supreme and
sacrosanct.</div>
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WAPDA has committed a crime of
theft of water by usurping the legal share of Gandapurs of Kulachi by
drastically reducing the share of its floodwater and ill-legally giving it to
the area not eligible to claim Gomal floodwater rights. WAPDA has committed
robbery on the water rights of Gandapurs in the garb of intensity of irrigation,
violating the Riwaj-e-abpashi. Please
refer to paras 6 and 9 of the PCC meeting held on 24.1.2004 on Gomal Zam
floodwater for observing the views of participants. It is not understood how
WAPDA dares to play politics and builds mega projects in a wrong way without
any authority or concern. This is why Sindh has no trust in WAPDA on Kalabagh
Dam. I can quote the failure of half a dozen mega projects wrongly conceived,
planned and built or abandoned after failure by WAPDA. It is therefore not new
for WAPDA. </div>
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<b>The Project Director Irrigation</b> informed that as per standing
practice, the design and construction of the Project should be on uniform
intensity of irrigation from head to tail under the command of flood irrigation
system. But surprisingly, the <b>Project
Director WAPDA</b> has altered the water rights of Gandapurs of Kulachi Tehsil
and gave water illegally to Tank Tehsil.</div>
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<b>Extension of canal network, item No 4 of the PCC <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Adviser Irrigation</b> said that WAPDA has introduced on the same
canal, three different intensities of irrigation ie, 120%, 100% and 60%. This
means different amount of water will be given to the land holders who have
equal water rights on the same canal. This will be like snatching water rights
of Gandapurs of Kulachi and gifting it to the people in the head reach in
Tehsil Tank. Will this violation not create terrible disputes? Why WAPDA’s
workings are malicious?</div>
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By grabbing Gandapurs water, <b>a core area of 28500 acres along the right
bank of LUNI River, the major branch of Gomal River, passing by the side of Kulachi
Town, and upto tail area touching the CRBC boundary, has not been included by
WAPDA in the command area of the Project having legitimate water rights under
Kuliyat/Riwaj-e-abpashi. Besides this, more area is ignored by its random
activities. </b>These areas are called <b>“left
over area” or intentionally ignored area of Kulachi Town, that is the heart of
Gomal floodwater</b> or the Rod-Kohi area, that has established water rights in
the Project area since 1880.</div>
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The ignored area of Kulachi Town
is <b>the most essential area of the Gomal
Zam Project.</b> Even a lay man will know that the major branch of Gomal Zam,
the <b>LUNI Stream,</b> irrigating area
around Kulachi Town, is <b>the heart or the
pivotal area of Goml Zam floodwater flow.</b> As a matter of fact, <b>the main canal should have been aligned
parallel to the Luni stream. The LUNI Stream passes by the wall city of Kulachi
Town.</b> </div>
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The Project Consultant <b>Conny-ta-Billar </b>said that <b>“Whatever water is available, the same must
be equally and judiciously distributed without depriving any chunk of rightful
area”</b>. What the Consultant said, is not followed and not implemented by
WAPDA.</div>
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Over and above this, the issue of
intensity of irrigation was discussed in the First and in the 2<sup>nd</sup>
meetings of the PCC on Gomal Zam. In the 2<sup>nd</sup> meeting it was
categorically directed to maintain equity in the distribution of floodwater for
irrigation by adopting uniform intensity of irrigation all over the area. To
avoid disputes on water rights, the Riwaj-e-abpashi should not be altered.
(Refer to item No 9). <b>It was further
decided to remodel the canal system for uniform intensity of irrigation what so
ever it comes to, so that the deserving area of water rights is served with
water and no area is left out. (item No 14) </b> </div>
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<b>Water Advisor</b> said that in the present EPC contract executed in
2007, the<b> left over area or the ignored
area</b> by WAPDA should have been included. This omission and wrong may be rectified
in the revised PC4 in consultation with the irrigation department. The chair
said varying intensity of irrigation would not be successful. It will create
problems, disputes for irrigation department during operation. It was desired
to carry out modification and incorporate it in PCI.</div>
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In spite of repeated directions
and guidance, WAPDA turned deaf ear and did not comply with the instruction of
large number of bodies governing the Project at various tiers.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Tank Tehsil has water rights on Tank Zam
with dam site at <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Hanis Tangi, and not on Gomal Zam<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Tank Tehsil has almost no water
rights in Gomal Zam passing in the old Gomal nullah and Kot Azam. This is the
decision of the Revenue officer of the British era. This decision is dated <b>20.12.1895 about 117 years ago.</b> The
people of Tank knew that they have no rights in Gomal River water. They have
their own big river of <b>Tank Zam</b> as
the name indicates. Refer to <b><i>Bandobast</i></b> on water rights vide page
No 30 line, 367 of <b><i>Bandobust.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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However, in case of super floods
the <b>over flow</b> from the nullah of
Gomal River ie, <b>spill or <i>chal,</i></b> spread over the villages
Shada, Mata, Jamal, Rawai and Azim Mian seldom occur. The area of these
villages is 700 acres. The Gandapurs may allow Gomal water to 700 acres. Refer
to page 37, line 8 to 11. The people of Tank Tehsil have no water rights in
Gomal Zam water. <b>This decision is dated
on 8.4.1899.</b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Mr Bolton report on 1908 on page 5, line
7 to 10 of <i>Bandobast</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b>Mr Bolton </b>report clears the matter and status that <b><i>Bunds</i></b>
will not be constructed to divert Gomal water for the above villages in Tank as
floodwater of Gomal Zam belongs to Gandapurs of Kulachi Tehsil. This clears the
matter of water rights. </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Report by Javed Ahmad Mirza-<i>Bundobast</i> 1968<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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This report reveals that 90% of
Gomal water belongs to Kulachi Tehsil and to D.I.Khan. Refer to paragraph 8, 100,
104. Mr Mirza said the people of Tank Tehsil has no water rights in Gomal River
water. Tank has its own river the <b>Tank
Zam.</b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Mr Safi Assisstant Commissioner Tank</span>
</b>letter No 315/NTI dated 14.10. 1973 confirms that <b>30 Jandar of perennial water from Gomal Zam </b>has water rights in
Gomal Zam water. One Jandar is about one cusec. Tank Tehsil has no water rights
on floodwater of Gomal Zam. Please see Kuliyat-e-Gomal Zam page No 12. <b>It says that more than 30 jandar of water
is considered as floodwater.</b> These water rights are sacrosanct.</div>
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About 30 Jandar water is equivalent
to 30 cusecs of perennial water for villages Jamal etc. This may be given to
Tank area. Add another 7 cusecs<b> as extra
grace water.</b> This comes to 37 cusecs for Tank. The remaining water
(848-37)=811 cusecs is for Kulachi Tehsil and Dera Tehsil. Again, out of 811
cusec, 95% water belongs to Kulachi Tehsil and 5% of 811 cusecs to D.I.Khan
Tehsil. The Project area shows 66000 ha or 163086 acres in PCI. It seems that a
duty of about 200 acres per cusec is assumed for the project by WAPDA.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">WAPDA violates Riwaj-e-abpashi knowingly
and shows injustice and favoritism at the cost of Kulachi Tesil of Gandapurs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
It is shocking that Tank Tehsil entitled
for 30 Jandar/cusecs is given 381 cusecs arbitrarily. Similarly, <b>Waran canal that is a water course with a
discharge of about 4 to 5 cusecs is given 240 cusecs almost equal to the
discharge of a main canal of some irrigation system.</b> Kulachi and Dera Tehsils
that have water rights up to 811 cusecs are given 450 cusecs. This shows pre-planned
interference by illegally reducing the share of Kulachi and D.I. Khan Tehsils
by <b>half, and illegally increasing the
share of Tank by 13 times.</b> This is a clear violation of the
Riwaj-e-abpashi/Kuliyat by WAPDA. Kulachi
is deprived of its water rights on its own river that spreads all over Kulachi
Tehsil where Gandapurs are settled in search of water more than 450 years ago.
Kulachi Tehsil is within the <b>hydrological
zone of Gomal River.</b> Tank Tehsil is within <b>the hydrological zone of Tank Zam. WAPDA must understand the hydrological
unit for Kulachi Tehsil.</b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
WAPDA played this trick through ‘intensity
of irrigation’ in violation of the Riwaj-e-abpashi creating inequality in the
equal water rights for all areas. Riwaj-e-abpashi has no concept of the
intensity of irrigation. Intensity of irrigation is irrelevant. Three different
intensities of irrigation mean to deprive one area of its water rights and give
water to an area not entitled for it. This means WAPDA has created three <b>Divides</b> of the same land.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Let WAPDA build <b>Tank Zam</b> for Tank Tehsil. Tank area has
a separate hydrological unit.</div>
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One thing is most disturbing that
the Provincial irrigation Department as a client, the various decisions of the
PCC meetings in 2002, 2004 and in 2007, the Project Director irrigation, the
Advisor (irrigation) and the Gandapurs of Kulachi-the owners of land, all
firmly demand that water rights in the Riwaj-e-abpashi of 1890, 1899, 1895,
1908 and 1968 should not be violated. </div>
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In spite of ignoring all the
above directions, WAPDA ignored the water rights of Gandapurs reducing their
share <b>by half,</b> whereas the share of
Tank Tehsil is increased <b>by 13 times, </b>violating
the Riwaj-e-abpashi. WAPDA has thus sown the seeds of disputes and bloodshed.
WAPDA’s status is no more than a contractor. It should <b>obey</b> what is asked for by <b>the
owners of water.</b> WAPDA has played mischief under political influence by introducing
the <b>intensity of irrigation.</b> WAPDA
using this trick, reduced the water rights of Kulachi Tehsil <b>by half,</b> and increased the water rights
of Tank Tahsil by<b> 13 times</b> in
violation of the Riwaj-e-abpashi.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Power Generation from Gomal Zam<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Gomal Zam is basically built to
store floodwater for irrigation use as per the water rights according to the
Riwaj-e--abpashi. Power generation is by-product. The water of Gamal Zam cannot
be regulated to produce power at the cost of irrigation. Irrigation gets first
priority. In Riwaj-e-abpashi there is no mention of power generation. There is
no objection to power generation if there is no interference with the releases of
water for irrigation. Flow should be regulated according to the irrigation
water needs so that water is not wasted. Please refer to <b>Water Accord</b> in this respect for the release of water from the
multipurpose Reservoir. </div>
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During 1959, I located three dam sites on Gomal River for power
generation,, downstream of the Khajuri Kach Dam site. These sites were pointed
out by me during the investigation of Khajuri Katch Dam. If more power is
required then build dams on the downstream of Khajuri Katch Dam on Gomal River. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b>This document reveals the history of the development of Rod Kohi Flood
Irrigation by the British in 1880 from the hill torrents of Gomal Zam for the
Gandapur Pathans of Kulachi by inundating their lands by floodwater to produce
food for themselves. It shows the floodwater rights of Gandapurs. The British administration
prepared water rights named Riwaj-e-Abpashi / Kultat for the distribution of water. The British
officers reduced this all in writing during their Land Settlement in the later
part of nineteen century. The Bolton Irrigation Notes of 1908 are still
considered as the Bible of Rod Kohi Irrigation. The area was then most
productive in food grains. Now the area of Rod Kohi is in shamble due to
official neglect. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>God helped Gandapurs that I was posted as the Project Director Gomal
Zam. I shifted the Gomal dam site in 1959 to Khajuri Katch Dam site because dam
on Gomal River was selected at random, and wrongly located in
the upper most reach of the Gomal River, harnessing hardly 12% of Gomal waters.
The dam site was shifted 30 miles on the downstream below the confluence of
Gomal Zam, Zob River, and Wana Toi. The Khajuri Katch Dam site, 30 miles on the
downstream of Gul Katch site is spectacular and hardly 80 feet wide at the dam
site river bed. I started the preliminaries of the dam in 1959. It should have
been completed in 1964. But WAPDA due to its apathy indefinitely delayed its
construction and built the Dam in 2012. Even now its canal system is not built.
<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Not only this, WAPDA has sown the seeds of disputes between Kulachi and
Tank Tehsils by interfering in the Riwaj-e--Abpashi and favoring the people of
Tank due to political pressure. God knows how long this will take that
Gandapurs get back their water rights? We the Gandapurs pray for justice. In
the mean time stay orders be issued and water should not be released in the
canal system till water rights of Gandapurs are restored and the canal network
remodeled and extended to the area deprived of water rights. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b>Engr. Fateh Ullah
Khan Gandapur 22.8.2012</b> </div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">B.Sc Engg. Ist Division.
(Distinction in Dams and Reservoir Engineering), M.ASCE (USA), FIE (Pak)</span><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Former Chairman Indus River System Authority (IRSA).</b> </div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">(The
discoverer and initiator of Khajuri Katch Dam site on Gomal Zam in 1959) & 12
mega Dams in Pakistan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Engr. Fateh Ullah
Khan Gandapur<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">B.Sc Eng. First Division, Distinction in Dams and
Reservoir Engineering. M.ASCE (USA), FIE (PAK).<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b>Former Chairman Indus
River System Authority<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Author of: 1. God ,Universe, and Man, the Holy Quran
and the Hearafter (1982) and<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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2. God created the Universe with purpose to serve Humankind (2009)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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F-10/2, Margalla Road (Service Road North) Islamabad<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Engr. Fateh Ullah Khan Gandapur 1925-2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/05168447883122388737noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8742207062836094646.post-27479418984775174352012-08-15T09:51:00.001-07:002012-08-15T09:51:02.463-07:00Happy 65th Independence Day Pakistan 2012<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Sub: Technical status of Kalabagh Dam. Petition by
Syed Feroz Gilani in the High Court, Lahore. <i> (Information for the assistance
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Sir,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> I
request the court considering my views based on facts and experience, free of
water politics as 37 years long status quo in Kalabagh issue destroyed the
country by 2010 floods, 2011 rains, and crippling load shedding. My views are to help the court by revealing
facts. Kalabagh Dam has become a puzzling dilemma for all political parties in
power <i>to build or not to build the Dam.</i>
Lack of decision has created long status quo. This cancer needs cure.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I am former Chairman IRSA.
I have expertise in Dams and Reservoir Engineering and have more than 50 years
experience in Water and hydropower development Resources. I am Distinction
holder in Dams and Reservoir Engineering. I am the discoverer of 12 mega Dams
in Pakistan during the period 1959 to 1962. I was in-charge of Dams
Investigation Division. I submit in brief my views on Kalabagh dam’s technical
feasibility as I have read all the 27 volumes of <b>Kalabagh Dam Feasibility Report prepared by the Consultants </b>when I
was Chairman IRSA in 1994. I want to help solve this ugly issue from
professional point of view in national interest. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">This is because the
controversy and not building dams <b>destroyed
the country by 2010 floods and the crippling load shedding due to long status
quo intentionally caused by WAPDA. It did not build any other dam on the Indus though
Basha Dam feasibility was ready in 1981.</b> WAPDA stuck to Kalabagh Dam and
misguided the people and the Government. Unfortunately all the heads of the
Departments are non-professionals who depend on the advice of lower staff.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To settle this ugly issue,
I suggested unique substitute of “<b>Raised
Fateh Barrage” </b>in place of Kalabagh Dam, involving change in <b>hydraulic design</b> and shifting the dam
site about <b>3 miles upstream in the Indus
valley in 1994 </b>when I was Chairman IRSA. Basically the new structure
conceived by me is a kind of combination of small dam over <b>Raised Barrage</b> which evacuates silt, passes maximum floods safely,
as well as creates reasonable storage, and generates hydropower. My concept of
Raised Barrage is in agreement with the consultant’s recommendation as it is
clear from the first <b>excerpt</b> quoted
in this report. The present site of Kalabagh Dam is on the downstream of Soan
River and Indus River. The dam is about two miles long and is on the downstream
of the confluence of Indus River and Soan River. None of the four provinces
know the technical aspects of Kalabagh Dam. My sincere professional views on a
project are in national interest and in the interest of development of sound
Water and Power Resources for the country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I agree, the objections of
all the three provinces on Kalabagh Dam are vague, as these are based on lack
of information, with no technical knowledge and understanding of the Kalabagh
Dam’s hydraulic design, and its adverse
consequences. The provinces only play <b>water
politics</b> without knowing the technical side of Kalabagh Dam. No technical
objection is made by any province. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Exactly is the case with
Punjab, as Punjab too is ignorant and its politicians only aggravate the issue
politically that has influenced WAPDA at Lahore. Equally ignorant is WAPDA.
Apparently Kalabagh is not the site for the Dam as chosen by WAPDA. This is
evident from the <b>poorest Capacity-inflow
ratio on the Indus of (6:93).</b> The reservoir will have short life due to
rapid silting. Annual silt flow is about<b>
540 million tons, converting this in to volume, it comes to 0.3 maf.</b> The
storage capacity of Kalabagh is about 6.1 maf. The reservoir will silt up in
about 25 to 30 years as it will not evacuate heavy sediment load that will be
deposited upstream of Attock gorge. At
the same time it will cause severe backwater flow and flooding of Peshawar
valley.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The silt deposited
upstream of Attock gorge will not be evacuated due to wrong hydraulic design
imposed by WAPDA on the consultant in the <b>TOR,</b>
except a very small amount. Refer to KBD main project report Vol 1. Few<b> excerpts</b> are quoted at the end of this
report. Huge silt will be deposited on the upstream of Attock gorge, will
create <b>severe backwater flow and
flooding in Peshawar valley.</b>
Nowshera and all villages will be severely inundated. Even during 2010
floods, the floodwater level on the G.T road opposite to Nowshera was as high
as 12 to 14 feet over the road. This was without a dam at Kalabagh. What will
happen after the dam may be imagined.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">WAPDA’s motto is <b>“Kalabagh Dam or no Dam”.</b> This is clear
from the fact that WAPDA did not build the second dam on the Indus after
Tarbela Dam in 37 years. Tarbela was completed in 1974. Surprisingly, Basha Dam
feasibility was completed in 1981. It was ready for construction but WAPDA did
not built it and stuck to Kalabagh Dam. Basha will be completed in 10 years
from now. This means no dam on the Indus for 47 years. It was a great blunder
not to build Basha in 1981. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The obstinacy of WAPDA and
its political wish and 37 years delay in not building the second dam on the
Indus <b>resulted in the devastating floods
of 2010, destroying 22 per cent area of fertile land and population, created
horrible load shedding, crippling economy, and water shortage beside creating
silt problem that results the in loss of storage water. What a colossal loss.
WAPDA practically turned into Water and Power Destructive Authority.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For no dams in 37 years,
it created <b>3 maf water shortage</b> for
irrigation this season. The water requirements of provinces could not be met.
Moreover, Tarbela Reservoir has silt up by about <b>5 maf of Live storage, against its original storage of 9.6 maf.</b> We
have lost about<b> 6.5 maf of Live storage
in Tarbela, Mangla and Chashma</b> so far with no replacement by WAPDA. In
fact, WAPDA should have built <b>four dams
in 37 years. The actual fault for delay and keeping the Government in dark lies
with WAPDA. </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">WAPDA was created in 1958
to develop water and power resources but due to its political affiliation and
professional inefficiency, it turned <b>Water
and Power Destructive Authority.</b> Please read the attached three papers for
ready reference.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sir, the court will be
surprised to know that I suggested in 1961 <b>the
construction of unique 35 maf Katzarah Dam with storage capacity of 35 maf of
water that is about six times the storage capacity of Kalabagh Dam or Basha
Dam. </b>Katzarah Dam will control 100 per cent floods in the Indus River,
generate huge hydropower and prevent silt flow in the Indus water. This is
because all the silt comes from the Skardu valley that has <b>highly erodible soil</b> as reported by the world Bank hydraulic expert
Dr Attaullah in 1974. If <b>Katzarah Dam</b>
is built, the life of Basha will increase from about 80 to 90 years to about
700 years. Life of Tarbela will increase by about 45 years. This is a unique
quality of building Katzarah Dam. Refer to my web site for article titled “<b>Katzarah Dam short”.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that I suggested in 1961 is the <b>8.5 maf
multipurpose Guroh Dop Dam on Punjkora River.</b> This dam if built will
control 100 per cent floods in Kabul River. But, WAPDA is adamant to build
Kalabagh Dam to follow its motto of <b>“Kalabagh
Dam or no Dam”.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Please refer to the<b> Nisar Memon Parliamentary committee report</b>
who visited all the provinces and the <b>AGN
Kazi Technical committee report </b>on Kalabagh Dam and other dams including
Katzarah. Both the committees recommended Katzarah Dam on the Indus and
rejected Kalabagh Dam after hearing the provinces.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To end mad controversy, I
suggested a unique, feasible, and multipurpose, substitute replacing Kalabagh
Dam in 1994 when I was Chairman IRSA. This substitute is of a <b>“Raised Fateh Barrage”. </b>This is a
unique and simple, cheap and immediately implementable project at the end of
the main Indus River about 3 miles on the upstream of the Kalabagh Dam site at
Elevation of 700 feet. KBD is located at El: 680 feet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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store 3.4 maf of water up to El 86o feet, 4.7 maf at El: 880 feet and about 6.2
maf water at El: 900 feet. Please refer to Kalabagh Dam storage capacity curve.
All storage water will be within the Indus River valley. The<b> Raised Fateh Barrage </b>will function as
a traditional barrage like Chashma and Taunsa. It will completely evacuate silt
and pass maximum floods without causing backwater flow and floods in Kabul
river of Peshawar valley. It will not inundate any area in any province.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">There is no need of land acquisition and no land
compensation. There is almost no population movement as storage is within the
Indus River valley. Within the water-way where there is no population.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> The Raised Fateh Barrage will function as <b>Balancing Reservoir</b> if more power
generation is required at Tarbela without the loss of irrigation water. It is
highly beneficial for all provinces. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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installed hydropower generation will nearly be between 2000 MW to 6000 MW on
run-of-the-river depending on the amount of flow in the Indus. There will be
two power houses located on each bank. One is for Punjab and the other is for
KPK. It can irrigate <b>Lakki Marwat area
of KPK </b>from the Raised Barrage Reservoir through a tunnel. Raised Fateh
Barrage can be completed within two and a half years at a cost of about $ 2
billion. The major change is in
hydraulic design that will evacuate silt and floods. If this proposal was
implemented in 1994, there would have been almost no load shedding, and no
water shortage. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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suggested <b>“100 days unrestricted low-level
silt sluicing hydraulic structure” to evacuate silt and to pass maximum floods</b>
whereas, WAPDA wanted to implement<b> “50
days restricted mid-level silt sluicing hydraulic structure”</b> as per the <b>tailored TOR given by WAPDA to the consultants with
instruction to follow what they desire. It was an unusual TOR to force the
consultants to do something unprofessional and unusual. This design was to
achieve a specific purpose of building the high level left bank canal with a
discharge of 15,000 cusecs. Excerpt on TOR quoted at the end of this report. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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cause huge and rapid deposition of silt upstream of the Attock gorge, severe
backwater flow, and flooding, in Peshawar valley. The floodwater will inundate
Nowshera town, and other vast areas. The entire area will <b>become calamity hit area.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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was no dam at Kalabagh, all area around Nowshera was inundated up to 12 to 14
feet floodwater, flowing over the GT Road opposite to Nowshera Town. What will
happen after the dam? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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generation from Kalabagh Dam, after reducing its height from 925 feet to 915
feet, is about <b>1250MW and not 3450 MW as
claimed by WAPDA.</b> Kalabagh Dam will be on run-of-the-river for about more
than three months in a year to pass floodwater. One month will be spent in
empting and filling the reservoir. Therefore there will be no power generation
during this period. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the low hydropower generation, WAPDA has instructed the consultants to install<b> 2000 MW of Thermal Power Plant attached to
Kalabagh Dam.</b> WAPDA falsely claim that KBD will produce 3450 MW of power.
Besides this, there are many other flaws. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The Kalabagh Dam site is
not for a high dam due to weak foundation, therefore the Project
Consultant have recommended that the <b>hydraulic head of the structure</b> at this
site should not be higher than 160 feet due to weak foundation, whereas, WAPDA
is building 260 feet high dam at Kalabagh. Refer to Volume XIII Miscellaneous,
July 1988, the report by Prof Skemton and Mr Little, the consultants for
Kalabagh Dam. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The risk is taken because
WAPDA wants to take off a high level canal with a discharge of <b>15,000 cusecs on the left bank of the Indus
River.</b> This is the reason that Sindh has lost trust in WAPDA and objects to
Kalabagh Dam. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">WAPDA is not at all trust
worthy <b>because it kept the design of
Kalabagh Dam secret from NWFP</b> as stated by the then Member Water <b>Mr Shams ul Mulk</b> in a meeting held at
Peshawar with the Additional Chief Secretary Development (Mr Khalid Azia) who
demanded a copy of the Kalabagh Dam feasibility report for study. The
Additional Chief Secretary was surprised to hear the answer of Member Water who
refused to give a copy of the report as it was a <b>secret document/classified document.</b> The ACS said: how is it that
you are building a dam in our territory and the design is kept secret from
NWFP? Member Water could no longer refuse and gave a set of the Kalabagh Dam
feasibility report. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Besides this, WAPDA
provided freak design of <b>50 days
restricted mid-level silt sluicing hydraulic structure in a freak TOR</b> that
will not evacuate silt and cause severe backwater flow and flooding in Kabul
River in Peshawar valley. This design was adopted to build a dam with a height
of 260 feet to be able to build Left Bank Canal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For more information on
Kalabagh Dam and on water development resources, please refer to my website <b>“ fatehuk. blogspot. Com”. The website</b>
contains about 100 articles, on <b>Water
and power issues of Pakistan and their solutions. The website</b> is visited by
about <b>8500 Research workers and
Engineers throughout the world.</b> Also refer to articles<b> on Substitute for KBD, on Kalabagh Dam, and on Water and Power Destructive
Authority, Katzarah Dam, Guroh Dop Dam, Akhori Dam and many other dams,</b>
besides suggesting many water and power projects<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I am 86 years old, and
recently unable to walk due to knee joints problem. I therefore cannot attend
the court. In case, my advice is needed, I would suggest, the court may
appoint a commission to record my views at my residence. My
address is: 518, F-10/2, Margalla Rosd,
Islamabad. My line No is 051-2106387 and my mobile is : 0300-5920641. My
email address Is <b>Fatehuk @ gmail. com.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I submit to the honorable Court few excerpts from the
Kalabagh Dam project report indicating serious silt problem due to unsuitable
hydraulic design because Kalabagh is not the site for a dam but for a barrage.
The consultants have also indicated this in technical language in the excerpt
immediately below, shown in bold besides other excerpts quoted below:-<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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that must be adhered each year in order to sluice sediment from KBD, <b>but the lower the draw down level, the
longer this level is maintained and the higher the flows then the more
effective the sluicing will be”.</b> Refer to KBD project report page 3.8,
para3.27. <b><i>(This quotation in technical language suggests low level sluicing
hydraulic structure like a barrage with unrestricted low level silt sluicing
structure. The consultant could not over look the rigid TOR. Therefore they
expressed their views in technical language. Let WAPDA understand it. ) </i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kalabagh has an <b>important bearing on the
design of KBD and on the operation rules for the reservoir.</b> If a high
proportion of sediment is trapped the storage volume would rapidly reduce with
the loss of irrigation benefits derived from storage. Such sedimentation could
eventually also cause <b>unacceptable
backwater effects”.</b> Refer to Project Report 1988, page 3.5, para 3.17.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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excerpt shows that silt evacuation depends on the design of the dam as it has
an important bearing on the design of Kalabagh Dam.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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benefits, the lower the draw down level and the longer the sluicing period, the
greater is the loss of power and energy generation”. Refer to Project report
1988, page 3.8, para 3.27 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“Upstream
of Attock the flood levels are sensitive to the amount of sediment so that
flood level will increase with time”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in general terms only and local behavior will depend on actual sediment inflows,
reservoir operation and local flow pattern”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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be practically viable”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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run-of-the-river”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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para 3.17, page 4.12, para 4.57, page 3.9, para 3.31.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“Basically the design
criteria were set during the initial appraisal of scheme and development out
line design. <b>These were based on the
requirements of the client through the Terms of Reference or subsequent instructions”.</b>
Refer to Project Volume N, Appendix N.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">IRSA rejected the hydraulic design of restricted
mid-level silt sluicing of Kalabagh Dam on 22.10. 1996 with 4:1 majority as the
design would not evacuate silt. Refer to The Frontier Post.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> The consultants recommended “50 days restricted
low-level silt sluicing structure”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“Mr Yuki Tanabe,</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> a representative of Japan Centre of Sustainable Society has termed the
proposed Kalabagh Dam disastrous for people, agriculture, and environment.
Refer to DAWN datd September, 2006”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">W APDA overlooked all
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The proposed “Raised Fateh
Barrage” is a trouble free, short term, cheap, technically sound, and a
multipurpose, non-controversial and unique substitute for KBD. It is a highly
improved and flawless version of Kalabagh Dam nearly at the same location. It
will use all technical deta collected for Kalabagh Dam. The KBD colony at site
will be used. Dispute and political controversy will end. It will evacuate silt
and pass maximum floods. It will cause no backwater flow and flooding in
Peshawar valley. It needs no land acquisition, no land compensation and almost
no population displacement because the storage will be within the waterway. It
generates hydropower and creates storage from 3.4 maf to 6.2 maf. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The consultants should
work out which storage is the best and economical. It will mitigate floods and
serve as Balancing Reservoir. This project will give breathing time for
undertaking other mega storage dams on the Indus. Let WAPDA EGO allow this unique,
substitute project, and appreciate it in national interest. This is to end
sufferings of the people created by WAPDA.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Engr. Fateh ullah Khan
Gandapur, Former Chairman IRSA.
Dated Aug, 9, 2012.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">B.Sc Engg’, ist Division,
(Distinction in Dams and Reservoir Engineering), M.ASCE (USA), FIE (Pak)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">518, F-10/2, Margalla
Road, Islamabad. Mobile 0300-5920641
and 051-2106387.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Copy to:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> The
Secretary Water and Power, <b>Islamabad </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Chairman Indus River System Authority, <b>Islamabad<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> The Chief Minister of KPK, Chief Minister House, PESHAWAR<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Chief Minister Government of Sindh, KARACHI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Chief Minister of Government of Punjab, LAHORE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Chief Minister of Baluchistan, QUETTA For information
and further action <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div>Engr. Fateh Ullah Khan Gandapur 1925-2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/05168447883122388737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8742207062836094646.post-78931317681728898122012-08-05T23:56:00.002-07:002012-08-05T23:56:31.607-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Water and Power
Destructive Authority<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Water and Power development Authority turned <b>Water and Power Destructive</b> <b>Authority.</b> This is because the Water
and Power Destructive Authority has showered rain of miseries on 180 million
people of Pakistan due to its inefficiency, incapability, stubbornness, lack of
initiative and deep involvement in politics of <b>“Kalabagh Dam or no Dam”. Besides this, it failed to warn Government in
time, and failed to foresee water and power requirements of the growing
population.</b> The whole country is on fire due to 18 to 20 hours of crippling
load shedding (never heard before). Moreover, it failed to control floods and
silt. Police shot two people dead while demonstrating against load shedding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The development of
water and power for agriculture, industries and business, means prosperity and
peace in Pakistan. If this is not provided, un-ending terrorism will prevail
and spread, as terrorism will become lucrative source of living. People due to
poverty are selling their children and committing suicide. Therefore develop
water and power resources at once as article 38 of the constitution requires. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For no dams on the Indus in a period 47 years, about 22 per
cent of Pakistan most fertile and populated area destroyed by the historic and
destructive floods of 2010 and by the devastating rains of 2011, destroying
Sindh <b>due to disappearance of the
natural drainage system by unchecked encroachments.</b> Sindh has become the
drainage bowl where flood and rain water stagnates for years. Sindh must demand
dams on the main Indus to control floods. The infeasible and superseded <b>Akhori Dam </b>proposed by WAPDA as
substitute for <b>Kalabagh</b> is not the
solution. Go for direct reservoirs on the main Indus to control floods and
silt, and to generate hydropower and store water going waste to sea. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This year the alarming <b>water
shortage</b> <b>is 9.2 maf as reported by
IRSA.</b> Please see The News dated August 4, 2012. This colossal shortage is very alarming as I
fear the irrigation system may not become non-perennial or seasonal within the
next 20 years if dams are not built immediately. The solution lies only in
building <b>the unique 35 maf Katzarah Dam
and not the indirect and superseded Akhori Dam. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Severe load shedding caused rioting in every city of
Pakistan. This is shameful. People have gone psychic. Business of all types
suffered to the roots. Industries are closed. People have gone out of job.
students, children, Doctors, house wives, tailors and all small technicians
suffered heavily. Patient’s sickness lying in hospitals increased. Pakistan <b>lost $3 billion in 3 years </b>due to
energy crisis reports the Daily Observer. These are the grounds for terrorism
to continue. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Due to the <b>absence </b>of multipurpose Dams on the main Indus for the <b>last 37 years</b> and another 10 years for
Basha to be completed, <b>47 years in all, </b>Pakistan
is destroyed economically and physically by floods of 2010, rains of 2011 and
the unending crippling load shedding by the so-called Water and Power
Development Authority. Over and above, water shortage reached to<b> 9.2 maf. This will create food problem. </b>Water
and Power <b>Destructive Authority</b> was
still stubbornly sticking to the motto of <b>“Kalabagh
Dam or no Dam” </b>even after destroying the country economically and
physically. No one worries. No one feels responsible. For all these miseries,
WAPDA is responsible if water and power not developed and peace is not restored
and source of living is not created.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I have given a <b>unique
substitute for Kalabagh Dam </b>nearly at the very same location in the Indus
River valley, with <b>changed hydraulic
design</b> to evacuate silt. The substitute for KBD is the “<b>Raised
Fateh barrage”</b> but the destructive Authority wants nothing but Kalabagh Dam
that has become part of DNA of WAPDA engineers. WAPDA has a problem of ego if
someone gives good suggestions as they feel small after keeping hoards
consultants and advisors. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The floods of 2010 dislocated about 8 million people of Sindh
beside the people of Punjab, NWFP and Baluchistan. The 2010 floods caused 2856
breaches in the Indus Bunds and canal system. Floods damaged 2300 Km of roads.
About 2000 people died in floods as there was no dam on the Indus. WAPDA forgets
this terrible dislocation of population but cares most for the small
dislocation of population by the <b>unique,
35 maf Katzarah Dam </b>which it opposes on the grounds of dislocation of
population. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Now watch the
headlines of the country’s top Daily Newspapers what the people say on water
and power shortage:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Planning Commission warns of a <b>Water crisis</b>. (The News June 30, 2012)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Punjab power outages spark violent
protests, as Electricity short fall rising to<b> 8500 MW</b> (Observer 18 June 2012 and the Daily Azkar).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Power riots turn violent in Punjab, <b>20 hours shortage (Observer June 19, 2012)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Disorder in Punjab, as riots rage.<b> Train set on fire (Dawn June 19, 2012)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Power shortage to worsen in future. <b>(The News (30.5.2012)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pakistan lost $18 billion due to energy crisis in 3 years. (Observer
August 1,2012)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">105 maf water wasted last year. (Sept 22, 2011)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dams vital </span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">to
save Sindh from flooding.<b> (The News)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Punjab foresees Rabi water crises. (Sept 29, 2011)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Energy crisis leading to destruction. Ansari. (Observer. August 2, 2012)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">US Senate report cautions against Water War in South Asia. (Dawn, 22.6.
2011)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">US Intelligence sees global water conflict risk rising.(News 28.3.2012)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Water War warning. (News 23.2.2012)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Water issue could sweep away Indo-Pakistan peace process.( News
25.4.2012)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Global famine if India Pakistan un-leash nukes: Study. (Dawn 25.4.2012
and Observer).<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">India to help Afghanistan build 12 dams on Kabul River. News (12.5. 2011)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">How can peace be achieved when
chances of nuclear water war is feared. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Forcible occupation of Kashmir by India is the potential source of
nuclear water war as all Pakistani Rivers originate from Kashmir. India has
built more than 32 hydraulic structures on Pakistani Rivers, including big
dams, reports Senator John Kerry to US Senate: The excerpt is “India has
acquired the ability to store enough water to limit the supply of water to
Pakistan at critical moment in the growing season”. Senator John Kerry reports
to US Senate fearing water war between India and Pakistan.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The whole problem is created by the wrong partition of India as the
hydrologic unit from where Pakistani Rivers originate and the canal head works
have gone to India. This is a great sore point, a potential source of conflict.
UN must enforce the 62 years old referendum in occupied Kashmir to ensure peace
in the region. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Water and
Power Destructive Authority’s shameful mega projects failures brought to
Government notice for action to avoid further losses in future<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span></span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Kachi Canal alignment from Mithan Kot
badly failed</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> to irrigate
lands due to wrong planning by WAPDA. It was abandoned on the quiet after
causing loss of billions of rupees. Government took no action.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To control Salinity, evacuate injurious salts out of the area,</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> reclaim land, and maintain salt and
water balance in the soil, drainage project by the name of <b>SCARP</b> was prepared by WAPDA with a wrong concept of drainage
through tube wells, ignoring the correct drainage through surface and
sub-service tile drainage to evacuate and control salinity out of the area.
This was planned because the Destructive Authority did not know the <b>correct definition of drainage</b>. This
resulted in billions of losses in Dollars. This was also abandoned on the
quiet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Again, another mega drainage project
was planned by the name of<b> National
Drainage Programme, NDP</b> to control and evacuate salinity. This too failed
resulting in billions of dollars losses.
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After the failure of the two mega
drainage projects to control and evacuate salinity out of the area and after
incurring losses in billions of Dollars, the <b>Destructive</b> Authority finally abandoned the drainage schemes, the
vital component of irrigation as a bad job. WAPDA never knew the correct
solutions to the salinity problem. The correct and established method to
control and remove salinity out of the area is to provide sub-surface tile
drainage and not the tube wells that circulate groundwater drainage effluent. The
world’s largest irrigation system is now <b>without
drainage system.</b> The Indus basin irrigation system is subjected to sever
salinity and sodicity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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installed in the Indus basin are pumping indiscriminately about 45 maf of
injurious saline drainage effluent from the ground as groundwater, injecting
about 350 million tons of salts in the soil. The one million small tube wells
are functioning as<b> anti-drainage system
circulating salinity.</b> The Indus basin will almost lose fertility gradually
and invisibly in a period of about 40 years If sub-surface tile drainage is not
provided as early as possible. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">WAPDA
run by hired persons and headed by non professional Chairman is ignorant, and
helpless to handle these serious matters. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the end of the Indus River is absolutely wrong as it receives about 540 million
tons of silt from a catchment area of 110500 squire miles. Converting this silt
in maf, it comes to about 0.3 maf per annum. This will create terrible silt
problem and backwater flow in Kabul River. Surprisingly, under a wrong and
tailored <b>TOR,</b> WAPDA directed the project
consultants to provide <b>50 days
restricted mid-level silt sluicing hydraulic structure</b> to evacuate silt
that is not possible because of wrong design to evacuate silt. The consultants
therefore suggested <b>100 day low-level
silt sluicing hydraulic structure to evacuate silt.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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consultants design. Besides this, Kalabagh became highly controversial
politically as WAPDA officials created terror in Nowshera that floodwater level
will rise by few feet and the houses will be inundated up to certain level.
WAPDA marked the walls of the houses in Nowshera. Thus, the <b>destructive authority</b> created fear
besides technical controversy and political controversy. This controversy is
stretched to 37 years and counting Basha completion of 10 years to 47 years.
There will be no dam on the Indus for 47 years. This means, problems of water
and hydropower, problems of rapid silting and devastating floods will continue
unabated. This has already resulted in floods of 2010, rains of 2011 and the
unending crippling load shedding causing billions of $ losses. Water shortage
this year has touched <b>9.2 maf, </b>almost
equal to the combined storage of Kalabagh and Basha Dams. While planning the
Kalabagh dam at the end of the valley, the <b>capacity-inflow
ratio</b> at the site was ignored that is the poorest in the world. This
indicated the site is not suitable even for a short-lived dam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Not only this, the destructive
Authority has now proposed a rejected and superseded project of Akhori Dam. <b>Akhori was rejected by Dr Pieter Lieftnick
Head of the world Bank team with a height of 250 feet in 1968.</b> The <b>destructive Authority </b>revised Akhori
Project by raising its height from 250 feet to 420 feet. WAPDA avoids building
a dam on the main Indus except Kalabagh. Therefore, the highly problematic and
infeasible off-channel storage at Akhori is selected for the next dam after
Tarbela, ignoring the main<b> 35 maf
storage dam at Katzarah. The present water shortage of 9.2 maf is ignored by
WAPDA.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The IRSA Act indicates that the Chairman
WAPDA is ex-officio Member IRSA with no power to vote. This shows the Chairman
must be an irrigation expert, engineer to actively participate and contribute.
Contrary to this, WAPDA Chairman is non-professional political man who never
attends the meetings. Similarly, Member Water is always found disinterested and
inert person. He too has never attended IRSA meetings. The so called Water and
Power Development Authority is represented by a retired irrigation engineer
appointed as consultant and Advisor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The professional value of WAPDA
confines to the knowledge of the retired engineers who are directed to follow
the directions of the boss. WAPDA has no professional capability as retired
engineers are appointed as Advisor and consultant to run the organization. The
Authority created dark and doom-like conditions. This will prevail for about 20
years till multipurpose dams on the Indus and Punjkora River are built. At the
same times, coal discovered in the country must be used to generate power. I
foresee floods this year and in the coming years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">All previous Governments seem to be
blind for not taking action on the failure of WAPDA for not preventing 2010
floods and 2011 rain losses besides other failures of mega projects. WAPDA
simply stuck to <b>“Kalabagh Dam or no
dam”.</b> These calamities and losses could easily be avoided if dams were
built in time on the Indus River. I am surprised how these doubtful projects
are approved by the ECNEC? The ECNEC also share responsibility. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I recommend, WAPDA head quarter be
shifted to Islamabad, like of IRSA, to jointly implement storage based Water
Accord. IRSA has demanded 22 maf of storage. The infeasible Akhori is not
capable to meet 22 maf of IRSA water requirements whereas, The 35 maf Katzarah
alone meets this requirement. Please see my blog on Water issues and their
solutions. <b>(fatehuk.blogspot.com). </b>My
blog contains about 100 articles on water issues that is visited by about 8500
engineers and researchers throughout the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Engr Fateh ullah
Khan Gandapur.</b>
August 5, 2012</div>
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Former Chairman IRSA. B,Sc Engg: first Division.
(Distinction in Dams and Reservoirs), M.ASCE (USA), FIE (Pak). 518,F/10-2, Margalla Road Islamabad.
Mobile 0300-5920641, 051-2106387</div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Unique Substitute for Kalabagh Dam</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b>A unique design concept
of unrestricted low-level silt sluicing flexible hydraulic structure is
developed for “creating valley storage in rivers with steep slope” to mitigate
power shortage, water shortage, super-floods and climate change that involves
no land acquisition, no land compensation, and no population displacement. It
is also a mid-term, unique and feasible substitute for</b><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> Kalabagh Dam.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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I suggest long life, far more
beneficial to all provinces, non-controversial, technically feasible, mid-term,
fast track, and a unique design concept for valley storage in rivers with steep
slope by building <b>a raised Fateh barrage </b>to avail <b>site potential </b>at
the end of the Indus River valley.<b> </b>The raised barrage would consist of <b>low dam-cum-barrage </b>at elevation near
700 feet with in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Indus</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">River</st1:placetype></st1:place> valley at its end. This
hydraulic structure will serve<b> </b><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">as unique
substitute for Kalabagh Dam—an astonishing coincidence. </span> </b>It will give low-level unrestricted free
flow passage to super floods, to evacuate heavy sediment out of the reservoir.</div>
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The concept is to build about 100
feet <b>low-dam at the bed level of 700 feet at the end of the Indus valley to
function as</b> <b>dead storage</b> and to <b>gain height </b>for the raised Fateh
Barrage up to elevation <b>800 feet.</b> On
the crest of this low dam a 50 to 60 feet high conventional barrage be built to
function as <b>an unrestricted low-level silt sluicing hydraulic structure</b>
to evacuate silt out of the reservoir. It will create <b>3.4 maf of gross storage at El 860 feet, </b>that would repeatedly be
filled, as the Indus flow at this site is about 90 maf. The <b>low-dam-cum
barrage concept</b> <b>is only possible in a valley and not in plain.</b> The
unique feature of this barrage is that almost <b>no land acquisition, no land compensation and no population
displacement</b> is involved by the storage created. The storage reservoir will
occupy no-man-land within the reservoir.</div>
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Another unique feature is that it
is problems free, has more aggregate storage by repeated filling of reservoir than
Kalabagh Dam, more power generation capability, and needs <b>no thermal power support</b> of 2000 MW as required for of Kalabagh
Dam. The unique feature is that it will give unrestricted passage to supper
floods, evacuates complete silt, and has no adverse effect on Peshawar valley.
Rather the barrage may be able to irrigate lands<b> in Laki Marwat area of
Bannu</b> district by tunneling the mountain. The possibility may be
investigated to know the ground reality.</div>
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Surprisingly, the reservoir maximum retention elevation
of 860 feet is 100 feet lower than the reservoir retention level of Kalabagh
Dam (KBD). The height of low dam-cum-barrage is 100+60=160 feet where as the
KBD height is 260 feet. </div>
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The barrage would end 37 years
long, lunatic, status quo and political, and technical controversies on
hydraulic design of KBD for silt sluicing going on between the KBD consultants
and WAPDA, because of <b>wrong and ordaining TOR.</b> Refer to <b>Volume N,
Appendix N of the project feasibility report.</b> The status quo over KBD
prevailed because of <b>wrong TOR </b>and wrong selection of dam site where the
Capacity-inflow ratio is the poorest on the Indus and perhaps in the world
thereby creating silt evacuation problem and backwater flow in Kabul River
valley. <b>The CI ratio clearly indicates that the</b> <b>site is for a barrage
and not for a dam.</b> The controversy and status quo on KBD resulted in no dam
building for (37+10 years for Basha)=<b>47 years</b>
that resulted in darkness in the country by crippling load shedding that now
seems to be a permanent fixture if <b>four multipurpose, mega dams</b> on the
Indus at Katzarah, Guroh Dop Dam on Panjkora River and Mir Khani Dam on Chitral
Rivers are not built with-in 10 years from now. Moreover, flood of 2010
destroyed 22% of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region>.
Flood phobia persists and may visit any time and many time. </div>
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According to a newspaper, peak
shortage of power touched 7000 MW. The Pakistan observer dated 29 July, 2012,
reports that <b>“Pakistan lost $18 billion
due to energy crises in the last three years”</b>. How to meet this national
crisis as Government and its concerned machinery are still fast asleep as the
faulty projects of KBD and Akhori Dam proposed by WAPDA show, especially when
the unique multipurpose projects of 35 maf Katzarah Dam, 8.5 maf of Guroh Dop
Dam, Raised Fateh Barrage and Mirkhani Dam as proposed by me since 1990-91 are
rejected by WAPDA and the so called its advisors. Water and Power development
should be free of dirty politics creating infighting. </div>
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Status quo for not building mega
dams in time resulted not only in <b>crippling load shedding</b> but in <b>super-flood
devastation</b> of one-fifth of <st1:place w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:place>
and in <b>water shortage</b> for agriculture, creating <b>insecurity for food</b>
and grounds for famine, hunger and terrorism.</div>
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I, after conducting research on “valley
storage”, suggest a unique and multipurpose raised barrage to allow<b> unrestricted
low-level silt sluicing design for hydraulic structure, to store water,
generate power, and evacuate silt.</b> The raised Fateh barrage is an <b>unrestricted
low-level silt sluicing structure, giving free passage to super-floods and to
the evacuation of silt out of the reservoir. The KBD Project consultants did
not agree with 50 days restricted mid-level silt sluicing design suggested by
WAPDA, as silt deposited upstream of Attock gorge would not be evacuated and
that would cause backwater flow in Peshawar valley.</b></div>
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I first gave this suggestion for
the raised Fateh barrage in 1994, when I was Chairman IRSA, 17 years ago. It
went un-noticed as water development was out of vision.</div>
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The project conceived is<b> a
combination of a low dam-cum-barrage</b> all confined to the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Indus</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">River</st1:placetype></st1:place>
valley. The storage created by the <b>60 feet raised barrage</b> at the end of
the Indus River would be about<b> 3.4 maf
at elevation 860.</b> The reservoir full supply level at El 860 will be within
the valley few miles on the downstream of Attock gorge. At El 880 feet the
storage is 4.4 maf with in the valley. At El: 900, the storage is about 6 maf
extending up to Attock Gorge. Please refer to Kalabagh Dam capacity curve. Fix
economical storage as desired. The storage gives no obstruction to free flood
flow to eveacuate silt. The Indus River annual run-off at the site of barrage
is about <b>90 maf.</b> The reservoir could
repeatedly be filled. </div>
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The barrage project will not
cause inundation of <st1:city w:st="on">Peshawar</st1:city>
valley as it allows <b>unrestricted passage to sever flood flows.</b> The
sediment load from a catchment area of 110500 squire miles at this site is <b>540 million tons, equivalent to 0.3 maf
annually,</b> that will be evacuated.</div>
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The project would be acceptable
to the Government of KP and other provinces as it is equally beneficial to all.
However, Sindh and <st1:place w:st="on">Baluchistan</st1:place> will get assured
water distribution facilities at critical time of crop sowing from the unique
barrage. <st1:place w:st="on">Punjab</st1:place> and KP will get power royalty
equally. NWFP may irrigate Laki Marwat area. All provinces would get improved
irrigation facilities. </div>
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The barrage storage will serve as
<b>balancing reservoir</b> between power
generation and irrigation water conservation. The project can start at once and
completed with in about 3 years. The reservoir will silt up to elevation 800 (crest
of low dam) in four years time if built up to El 860. Storage between elevation700
to 800 feet of about 1.17 maf, is <b>dead storage, and between 800 to 860 is all
time live storage.</b> Only the barrage will be visible on the upstream. The
project would generate hydropower between <b>2000
MW to 6000 MW </b>on run-of-the-river with Power Houses located on both banks,
that is in NWFP and Punjab both.</div>
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The project will be a unique
water regulating and water distributing pivotal structure for IRSA. The cost of
the project would be about $ 2.5 to 3.0 billion dollars. The project would give
breathing time by immense relief to power shortage, flood havoc and water
shortage till four mega dams are built, that is Katzarah, Basha, Raised Fateh
Barrage on the Indus, and Guroh Dop dam on Panjkora River with storage capacity
of 8.5 maf. The fourth dam is at Mirkhani on <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Chitral</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">River</st1:placetype></st1:place>,
its floodwater will be diverted through a tunnel to the catchment area of Guroh
Dop Dam.</div>
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I wish the Government get the
credit of implementing this <b>unique barrage</b> without loss of time. The
proposed substitute will also cool the craving for KBD, for which the country
suffered unending load shedding, and flood devastation of 22% of Pakistan.</div>
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<b>Warning: Because the Raised Fateh Barrage project is unique and
feasible, therefore WAPDA would definitely avoid it, to go for Akhori-another off-channel
controversial and infeasible project, ignoring multipurpose projects on the
main Indus.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Afforestation of mountain range from the Indus River
Lake to mitigate climate change<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Another benefit from the raised Fateh
barrage project is that nominal water from the Lake created at the end of the
Indus River valley can be pumped for the afforestation of the mountain range
along both banks of the Indus River in a length of about 90 miles. This is to
mitigate climate change. Similar action can be taken on Tarbela Reservoir for
growing forest on its banks. </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Engr. Fateh Ullah Khan
Gandapur<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 8.0pt;">B.Sc. Engg; (Distinction in
Dams & Reservoir Engineering)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 8.0pt;">M.ASCE (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>) FIE (Pak) <b>Former Chairman IRSA<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 8.0pt;">Author of 2 books on<b>
science and Quran.</b> 1. God, Universe & Man; The Holy Quran
& The Hereafter<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 8.0pt;"> 2. God Created The Universe With The Purpose
To Server Human Kind<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><u><span style="font-size: 8.0pt;">Address:</span></u></i><i><span style="font-size: 8.0pt;"> </span></i><span style="font-size: 8.0pt;">H# 30-H2, <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Main
Road</st1:address></st1:street>, Phase-2, Hayatabad, Peshawar-PAKISTAN<i> <u>Tel:</u> +92 91
582 4918 <u>Mob:</u> +92 300
592 0641<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b>Secretary Water and Power, Islamabad<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Deputy Chairman Planning Commission,</b> Planning
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<st1:placename w:st="on"><b>Chairman</b></st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Indus</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">River</st1:placetype>
System Authority IRSA, <st1:city w:st="on">Islamabad</st1:city></div>
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The delay of 37 years for not
building Basha Dam whose feasibility was completed in 1981, the second dam on
the Indus, after completion of Tarbela in 1974 is a crime against the nation. Adding another 10 years delay for Basha Dam
completion will further aggraravate agonies. No dam, for 47 years would cause a
direct and indirect recurring economic loss of $200 billion per year. So far it
resulted in crippling load shedding, and devastating floods of 2010, water
shortage creating food insecurity, no jobs, rising prices and lawlessness,
creating no source of living. As a consequence some people committed suicide,
and some selling their children. Terror originated due to no job and no ROTI.
Poor governance for the past about 40 years is responsible for corruption.
Justice is costly and late. It should be quick and cheap. I wish some patriotic
Advisors and known experts guide the Prime Minister and the President to
improve things in each profession, and not the <b>sycophants and charlatans</b>
as they misguide them. There is dire need to change laws for good governance
and to develop natural resources of land, water and hydropower for irrigated
agriculture to produce food, secure jobs as provided in the Constitution
Article (38), 38 (a) to (d).</div>
</div>Engr. Fateh Ullah Khan Gandapur 1925-2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/05168447883122388737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8742207062836094646.post-16842371231645179082012-07-28T22:36:00.001-07:002012-07-28T22:36:12.154-07:00Sanjwal-Akhori Dam site<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There is a general trend by WAPDA
to select dam sites at random without caring for <b>Capacity-inflow ratio</b> to have long life span, unlike the Kalabagh
Dam. WAPDA selects dam sites on political grounds that becomes controversial
besides problematic. After committing blunders, WAPDA sticks to it, creating
status quo indefinitely like as of Kalabagh. A dam site on a river should be
given priority that should have multipurpose functions with long life span.
Each dam on the upstream of a river supports the dam on the downstream by prolonging
its life span besides producing hydropower, controlling floods and silt, and
help proper development. <o:p></o:p></div>
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WAPDA selects faulty dam sites, ignoring
their multipurpose merits, like in case of Akhori, the indirect reservoir off
the natural channel. Akhori is almost single purpose off-channel storage dam. This
shows WAPDA has no vision to find dam sites on the mighty Indus. Therefore the
country is deprived of many functions of direct reservoir. Indirect Reservoir
has no silt control function. Indirect reservoir is unable to mitigate floods
like the direct reservoir. Basically Akhori is not a power project. It’s a
water project. We direly need multipurpose power project to remove crippling
load shedding and control flood. There is therefore dire need of direct storage
dams on the Indus like the <b>35 maf unique
Katzarah Dam followed by Raised Fateh Barrage as the genuine substitute for
Kakabagh Dam.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Please note, <b>there are no dam sites on Kabul River, Jehlum River and Chenab River.</b>
<b>Indus is the only river that is the life
line of Pakistan and the 35 maf Katzarah Dam is the key to all of Water, Power,
Silt, and Floods problems.</b> Indus River multipurpose potentials must be
given top priority by its early construction to remove shortage of power, and
water, besides controlling crippling load shedding and flood havoc as of 2010
and control silt. Pakistan is hard hit by climate change. Indirect reservoirs
should be given the last priority if found feasible. I warn of floods like of
2010. Floods will visit again and again as climate change is severe and
unpredictable.<o:p></o:p></div>
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WAPDA may note that Dr Pieter
Lieftnic Head of the World Bank Team in his report in three volumes “Water and
Power Resources of West Pakistan” volume I page 269 and 292, <b>rejected Akhori
Dam due to serious foundation problems </b>and, other considerations. As such,
Akhori Dam was <b>superseded by Gariala Dam.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Akhori Dam was proposed on Haro
River, with a height of 250 feet, creating a gross storage of 3.6 maf, and live
storage of 3.3 maf. This was proposed fearing that Tarbela Reservoir will silt
up soon as it has <b>poor capacity-inflow
ratio.</b> The length of Akhori Dam would be 15,800 feet. Dr Pieter Lieftnick
report Volume I, page 269 states that “<b>inordinate amount of earth moving
would be involved and that serious foundation problems would be encountered at
each site”.</b> Cut-off grouting would be required along the axis of Sanjwal
Dam, the embankment of which would be <b>12.5 miles long</b> and extensive
treatment would be required at Akhori. In view of this and other
considerations, <b>Akhori project was deemed less favorable than Gariala”</b>,
page 269. Dr Lieftnick report says, “<b>Akhori is superseded by Gariala”.</b>(Page
292).<o:p></o:p></div>
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In spite of all these <b>serious faults</b> WAPDA selects the next dam at Akhori with a height
of 420 feet against the original height of 250 feet to bring early doom of
water and power- a blow that an enemy will not inflict.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ignoring all these serious
drawbacks WAPDA is going ahead with Akhori Dam with a raised height of <b>420 feet against 250 feet</b>. This shows
political influence. Sindh will not agree to Akhori Dam, specially for its
location in Punjab in view of mistrust already prevailing. Besides this, water
diversion for Akhori Dam and water diversion for Ghazi Barotha Channel <b>will render Indus River reach from Ghazi
Barotha to Attock absolutely dry. The people on the downstream will seriously
suffer. River water rights cannot be denied to the area of NWFP by diverting
the river flow in this reach.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Dr Pieter Lieftnick report pages
265 and 266 reports that, <o:p></o:p></div>
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“In recognition of high rate of
depletion of storage capacity at Tarbela, various proposals have been put
forward by <b>the Pakistan authorities</b> for auxiliary (side-valley storage)
reservoirs on the Haro and Soan Rivers which would be filled by the diversion
of the Indus water through canals from the Siren Arm of Tarbela Reservoir. A
study of the proposal, however, suggests that <b>the cost of dams considered in
connection with the cost of conveyance canals, would make construction of
side-valley storage project as expensive, than as reservoirs on the main stem
of the Indus”.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b> </b>This means that only the cost of
conveyance<b> </b>of water<b> </b>system will be equal to the cost of dam<b>. The
raised Akhori Dam will cost </b><b>three
times more than a dam on the main stem of the Indus River besides many other
complications. Dr Lieftnick reports: </b> <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>“For any such undertaking,
Tarbela would have to be built to elevation 1565 feet in order to facilitate
the transference of water across the divide.</b> Also because diversion would
be possible only when <b>Tarbela Reservoir might be full or nearly full,</b> it
would be necessary to fill Tarbela as soon as possible each flood season.”
page 266. Will rise in elevation of
Tarbela by 15 feet will be possible? Raising by 15 feet will submerge vast
area.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“A canal with a capacity of 76000 cusecs with
ancillary structures including dams, siphons, aqueducts, bridges and culverts
would be constructed from the Siren Arm of Tarbela Reservoir to Jabba Kas
River, a tributary of Haro River for storage at Sanjwal Akhori site” page 266.
“The operation of the conveyance would be complicated by the fact <b>that it
will be empty for some nine months in each year.</b> Maintenance cost would particularly
be heavy”. Page 268.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Moreover, Akhori is single purpose storage dam
with almost no power or nominal power component to generate electricity. There
is dire need for hydropower, therefore multipurpose dams producing hydropower
should first be built on the main stem of the Indus River rather indulging in
complicated, single purpose storage dams on side-valley. There is news in
today’s paper, dated 29<sup>th</sup> June, 2011 wherein <b>WAPDA chairman said
that load shedding would continue till 2018 and that power demand by the year
2030 would be 130,000 MW.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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I believe, load shedding would
continue till <b>Katzarah Dam, Basha Dam,
Raised Fateh Barrage, Guroh Dop Dam and Mirkhani dams are built. Bunji Dam and
Dasu Dams are also vital. It is senseless to propose off channel Akhori and
call it alternative to Kalabagh. The alternative to Kalabagh is Raised Fateh
Barrage on the Indus. </b>The present shortage of power is a backlog of the
past 46 years for not building any multipurpose dam. The concerned authorities
were busy in Kalabagh controversy, therefore status quo in dam construction
prevailed for (36+10)=46 years. <b>This resulted in water shortage, crippling
load shedding and devastating floods of 2010. Now Akhori will replace Kalabagh
in controversy.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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It is surprising no one
critically studied the Kalabagh consultants report for its infeasible hydraulic
design of <b>50 days restricted mid-level silt sluicing to evacuate silt. KBD
consultants recommended 100 days unrestricted low level silt sluicing</b>.
Exactly is the case of Akhori Dam, as no one studied Dr Pieter Lieftnick report,
who rejected Akhori Dam due to serious foundation problem. Refer to <b>The Water and Power Resources of
West Pakistan.</b> <o:p></o:p></div>
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It is shocking to know that Dr Pieter Lieftnick rejected Akhori Dam on
sound technical grounds <b>even then
WAPDA appointed local consultant to prepare a fresh feasibility report for a
greater height of Akhori Dam to store more water and generate little power. </b>The new proposal for Akhori is that the
height of the dam is raised from 250 feet to 420 feet, to create 7.0 maf of
storage reservoir in place of 3.6 maf. The length of the dam with <b>high embankments </b>would increase to 25,000 feet. <o:p></o:p></div>
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To fill the originally proposed reservoir of 3.6 maf, a canal with 76000
cusecs was required. It is surprising to note that Akhori Dam that is
infeasible due to serious foundation problems for a height of 250 feet, how can
it be feasible for a height of 420 feet, to create 7.0 maf storage? The new
proposal will require a conveyance canal with a discharge of 150,000 cusecs to
fill it. Will that much water be possible to divert in two to three months
time? Will a channel virtually equivalent to a river waterway be possible to
built to convey water? What would be the consequences of such diversion on
Ghazi-Barotha Power generation, and on the water rights of the downstream
people in NWFP? The cost of project would be unbearable. The channel would
remain dry for 9 to 10 months a year with heavy maintenance cost.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Akhori will follow the example of failures of first Kachi canal, drainage
projects of SCARPs, NDP, and selecting controversial project of KBD. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I believe, it may not be possible to fill the reservoir of 7.0 maf
storage capacity during the monsoon. Moreover, <b>elevation of 1565 feet for the diversion of water </b>may not be able to maintain for three
continuous months of monsoon period. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The construction of single purpose side-valley reservoirs should be the
last option when all the direct reservoirs on the Indus are silt up. First,
direct reservoirs should be built as they are multipurpose, cheap and easy to
build. When all direct storage sites are exhausted, then consider the
side-valley storage. The side-valley reservoirs are three to four times more
costly than direct reservoirs. Moreover, side-valley projects are
problematic. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The most difficult and alarming aspect of side-valley storage <b>is a condition that Tarbela reservoir
should be raised by 15 feet (1550+15) = 1565 feet for the transference of water
</b>It is yet to be examined, if it is
technically, and environmentally feasible to raise the height of Tarbela Dam by
15 feet. Moreover, the consequences of raised Tarbela Dam shall have to be
examined, how much area is going to be submerged under the raised reservoir? How
many people would be displaced? The cost of compensation may be worked out. The
raising of Tarbela Dam is yet another technical hurdle of the side-valley
storage besides its cost. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Water and Power</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">, Government of
Pakistan, Islamabad<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">It
is requested that WAPDA may be asked if they have read Dr Peter Lieftnick
report on Akhori Dam that it is superseded by Gariala Dam and that Akhori has
serious foundation problems. Moreover, it requires raising the height of
Tarbela Dam by 15 feet to elevation 1565 feet for the diversion of water from
Tarbela Reservoir to fill Akhori. Will it be possible to raise the height of
Tarbela Dam? How much area will it inundate? Will it be possible to build a dam
with a height 420 feet when foundation for a dam with 250 encounters serious
foundation problems? Has WAPDA studied the effects of diversion of about
150,000 cusecs of water on power generation of Tarbela Dam and Ghazi Barotha
power channel? Will it be possible to constantly maintain elevation of about
1565? Akhori is a single purpose dam. We need multipurpose dam to generate hydropower.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Please
arrange study of the adverse effects of single purpose Akhori Dam that suffers
from many problems as reported by Dr Pieter Lieftnic Head of the World Bank
Team to Pakistan who investigated dam sites and other water and power
developments schemes. Pakistan cannot afford to build infeasible and
controversial dams and waste time. Multipurpose dams must be planned on
technical merits to have long life span, control floods and silt and generate
power.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Chairman
IRSA Government of Pakistan.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> The
authority is created for regulating and monitoring the distribution of water
resources of the Indus River and to provide for matters connected therewith and
ancillary thereto. IRSA has to play the <b>role of a monitor</b> for monitoring
the water resources in selecting long life storage dam sites, as it is a
connected and ancillary matter. This is what the IRSA Act Preamble reveals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Pakistan
is woefully unprepared for new floods.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">
The 2010 devastating floods can be repeated any time and many times. I
therefore suggest building of the <b>35-maf
multipurpose Katzarah dam </b>as Katzarah will control floods in the Indus, and
the <b>8.5 maf</b> multipurpose dam at<b> Guroh Dop on Panjkora River to control
floods in Kabul River.</b> There is no remedy to control floods other than the
combination of the two dams as proposed. Akhori is out of line and irrelevant
under this situation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The real alternative to Kalabagh Dam is
the Raised Fateh Barrage as already suggested by me and not Akhori Dam rejected
by Dr Pieter Leiftnic Head of the World Bank Team specially appointed to
identify and investigate dams sites indicating their pre-feasibilities besides
Water Resources Development Schemes. .<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</div>Engr. Fateh Ullah Khan Gandapur 1925-2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/05168447883122388737noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8742207062836094646.post-51507338867803409352012-07-10T23:57:00.001-07:002012-07-10T23:57:40.442-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Water Development in
Pakistan suffered heavily due to Geopolitics<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Water
development in Pakistan suffered heavily due to<b> Kalabagh Dam</b> controversy, <b>provincial
water disputes</b> between Sindh and Punjab for the last about 70 years, and
due to <b>water dispute with India</b> for the
wrong partition of India and the forcible occupation of Kashmir where the
origin of all rivers originate. The provincial
water dispute was settled in 1991 under the <b>IRSA Act </b>in the shape of <b>Water
Accord Agreement</b> between the provinces. To implement Water Accord, <b>Indus River System Authority IRSA </b>was
created in 1993. Water Accord para 13 states that IRSA is created to implement
Water Accord. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Surprisingly,
no financial and administrative powers were given to IRSA to implement Water
Accord, meet water requirements of paras 2, 4, 6, by creating <b>22 maf storage dams </b>and to carry out <b>Integrated Comprehensive Water Management
(ICWM) to implement para 14(e)</b> to avoid all wastage of water. The ICWM will
save 40 maf to 50 maf wastage of water in the <b>highly wasteful, incompatible and obsolete canal irrigation system that
is 150 years old.</b> The result is that
water dispute between the provinces continued in spite of the Water Accord due
to continued shortage of water for no dams. WAPDA has created no storage since
the completion of Tarbela Dam Reservoir in 1974. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Due to Kalabagh Dam controversy, WAPDA
created status quo and built no storage dam for the last 38 years. Basha will
take another 10 years if funds are available. Basha feasibility was established
in 1981, even then Basha was not built. This means <b>no dam for the last 48 years on the Indus due to the obstinacy of WAPDA.</b>
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The dispute on Kalabagh Dam is
due to political controversy, and technical controversy between WAPDA and the
project consultant. Project consultant did not agree with the hydraulic design
dictated by WAPDA under the tailored TOR to provide <b>50 days restricted mid-level silt sluicing hydraulic design.</b> The
consultant recommended to provide<b> 100
days un-restricted low-level silt sluicing hydraulic design to evacuate silt
out of the reservoir.</b> WAPDA design gives very short life span due to heavy
and rapid silting. Silt flow at Kalabagh Dam site from a catchment area of
110,500 squire miles is about 540 million tons equivalent to 0.3 maf. Moreover,
the dam site selected at the end of the Indus valley is wrong as capacity
inflow ratio at Kalabagh Dam site is the poorest in the world. It is 6:93
besides many other reasons and some more technical flaws given in my blog. </div>
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WAPDA gave <b>tailored TOR</b> to the consultants. Such TOR imposed on consultant was
not found feasible. The KBD consultants gave technically very safe hydraulic design
to evacuate silt but WAPDA disagreed and wanted to impose its own hydraulic design.
WAPDA hydraulic design will not evacuate silt out of the reservoir. Rapid silt
will be deposited upstream of the Attock gorge that would cause severe
backwater flow in Kabul River that will cause, flooding of Nowshera city and Peshawar valley.
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The ugly KBD controversy
continued for 48 years. Even now WAPDA is adamant to build another dam and
resists not to consider other unique and multipurpose dams, like <b>the 35 maf Katzarah Dam, the 8.5 maf
multipurpose Guroh Dop Dam and even the unique substitute for Kalabagh Dam, in
the form of 4.4 maf Raised Fateh barrage, replacing Kalabagh Dam. </b> The dam-cum-raised Fateh barrage was initiated
by me and suggested to the Government in 1994 when I was Chairman IRSA. No one
cared. Even now KBD controversy is as severe as before. </div>
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The result of disputes,
controversy for 37 years on dams and the prevailing lunacy resulted in <b>the devastation of 22 per cent of Pakistan
most developed area by the historic floods of 2010, causing losses worth
billions of dollars and the crippling load shedding of worst type rendering
more than 70 % industries idle. Economic life in Pakistan ceased, causing
billions of dollars loss. People are on the verge of revolt.</b> The Water
Accord is continuously un-implemented. The miseries will only end <b>if four dams proposed by me </b>are built.
For all these matters please refer to my blog titled <b>fatehuk.blogspot.com</b></div>
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There is <b>yet another water dispute between India and Pakistan</b> created after
the wrong partition of India. This is because the <b>hydrologic unit of Kashmir, from where all Pakistani rivers originate</b>
is forcibly occupied by India. The <b>Indus
Waters Treaty</b> between Pakistan and India was executed in 1960. Under this
Treaty, Pakistan surrendered <b>perennial
water</b> to India that was irrigating vast area in East Punjab of Pakistan. This
is because canal Head works on the three Eastern rivers, Ravi, Sujles,and Bias
went to India. In replacement to the perennial water surrendered to India,
Pakistan was given <b>time-based storage
water</b> <b>(non-perennial)</b> by
building Tarbala Dam, Mangla Dam and network of link canals transferring water
of one river to the next to feed the area of East Punjab of Pakistan deprived
of its centuries old water rights. Water dispute is created with India due to
wrong partition of India.</div>
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While implementing the IWT, during the period of
37 years Tarbela Dam and Mangla Dam are silted up by <b>6.5 maf.</b> This rendered the Indus Waters Treaty <b>inefficacious</b> as replacement storage at Tarbela and Mangla
reservoirs to feed Eastern area of Pakistan is lost to silting of the reservoirs.
<b>Storage</b> is the basic and integral
component of the Indus Waters Treaty. The question is, <b>Who will replenish the lost storage? This issue is disputable. It needs
settlement.</b> </div>
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Beside the above, India is
allowed to create hydropower on run-of-the-river on our rivers, namely the
Indus, Jehlum and Chenab Rivers. India has mis-used this facility by building
56 hydropower projects including mega dams on our rivers. By doing so, India
played hidden and ill-legal trick by creating more perennial, <b>live storage</b> than as allowed. This <b>live storage water is hidden in the technical
terms of</b> <b>Pondage, Pondage level,
Operating pool, surcharge storage, and run-of the-river wrongly defined in the Appendix
–D of the IWT.</b> This illegal storage is not detected by Pakistan till I
pointed out. Under the guise of these definitions <b>more live storage</b> is created by India and India has acquired the
ability to limit the supply of water at critical moment in the growing season.
This has created fear of war. India is allowed 2.85 maf storage under the
Treaty on the Western Rivers. The Government of Pakistan may request India to
let Pakistan know, how much <b>live storage</b>
India created in the 56 hydraulic structures including mega dams? Commissioner
Water revealed in a meeting that India has built 56 hydraulic structure
including mega dams whereas Senator John Kerry has mentioned 32. Please read my several articles in my blog on
the IWT. </div>
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Surprisingly, this illegal
storage created was confirmed indirectly by <b>Senator John Kerry in his report to the US Senate.</b> An excerpt from
John Kerry report is;</div>
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<b>“India has acquired the ability to store enough water to limit the
supply of water to Pakistan at critical moment in the growing season”.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Pakistan Rabi crop requirement is
36 to 38 maf. This will be adversely affected as India has control on it. The additional <b>live storage</b> has created insecurity of water for our Rabi crop.
This is done with the intention <b>to use
water as a weapon of mass destruction creating famine, hunger, death and
genocide.</b> John Kerry feared <b>Water
war</b> (nuclear) that is not in the interest of USA and the whole world. This
must be avoided by the UN, and Kashmir should be handed over to Pakistan to
avoid the possibility of nuclear war and maintain peace in the region. It is
not possible for Pakistan to live without water. Pakistan will not be able to sustain
its <b>largest contiguous canal irrigation
system in the world. This would create food crisis.</b></div>
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My blog will help research workers
as the blog contain about 100 articles on all aspects of water issues and their
solutions. Nearly 7700 thousand research workers have visited the blog throughout
the world till this date. I believe I am the only water resource engineer in
Pakistan, who created such a blog only a year back that help scholars in their
research work but Government is not taking its benefit. My blog will serve as
guidance as it contains 55 years experience of water issues of Pakistan. All
research workers can select articles of their interest out of the 100 articles.
All research workers are requested to study articles of their interest in the
blog. Many Research workers have requested me to advise them. </div>
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Regarding my professional
background, and experience, please find it in my book titled<b> “God created the universe with the purpose
to serve humankind”.</b> Write the title of my book and my name (google) , you
will get the book on internet revealing similarity and agreement of Quranic
verses revealed 1442 years ago with the most modern and established science
laws. This book gives details of my professional background and experience in
its introduction.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b>2.
The prestige and efficiency of WAPDA has drastically dropped since 1974 onward.
It has become politically dominated organization and is at the lowest ebb of
professional efficiency. It abandoned Kachi canal alignment wrongly planned by
it, it failed in its mega project of Salinity control and reclamation project known
as SCARPto evacuate salinity out of the Indus basin and maintain salt and water
balance in the soil. After this failure, WAPDA wrongly conceived and planned
National Drainage Programme (NDP). This too failed. Finally, the idea of
providing Drainage System is abandoned though Drainage is the integral
component of irrigation system. WAPDA made Kalabagh Dam controversial, it
delayed dam construction for 48 years that resulted <b>in shortage of water, flood havoc of 2010 and crippling load shedding.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Now WAPDA is trying to make <b>Katzarah Dam, Guroh Dam and Raised Fateh
Barrage</b> controversial by informing people, that their area will be
submerged by dams. WAPDA is creating fear in the mind of those whose area would
be submerged. WAPDA has become inefficient, corrupt, feels no responsibility
and has become incapable to conceive, plan and execute mega projects. Chairman
WAPDA is not Water Resources Engineer. He is, either General,
politician or a retired civil bureaucrat. This is strange, and shows
political domination. Please, read my various articles in the blog. <b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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3. I have discussed some points of the Indus
Waters Treaty as above. For more see the blog. </div>
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4. The Water Accord has not been
implemented during the past 20 years as storage is not created. The provincial
water disputes continue. There is dire need to implement para 2 of the Water
Accord in which <b>117.35 maf</b> of water
is distributed between the provinces whereas, water available to the system is<b> 90 maf to 95 maf.</b> Moreover, paras 4, 6, and para 14(e) of Water
Accord require immediate implementation to meet 22 maf of water required by
IRSA to implement Water Accord. In a way, IRSA has not proved successful to end
disputes so far, till more storage is created to settle water disputes. This
needs financial and administrative powers for IRSA besides close cooperation of
WAPDA with IRSA. This needs shifting of WAPDA Head quarter from Lahore to
Islamabad and the appointment of experienced Chairman WAPDA. I believe for this
reason, the Chairman WAPDA is made ex-officio Member IRSA with no power to
vote. Please refer to IRSA Act.</div>
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5. During 1994, when I was chairman
IRSA, water shortage was the main problem that I faced. I therefore repeatedly
suggested the immediate construction of <b>the
unique, 35 maf Katzarah Dam, the 8.5 maf, multipurpose Guroh Dam and the 4.4
maf, Raised Fateh Barrage.</b> I discovered <b>12 mega dams in Pakistan during 1959 to 1961.</b> Fateh Barrage was
conceived by me in 1994 to settle water disputes and Kalabagh controversy, but
the lunatic controversy on Kalabagh Dam replacing it by the Raised Fateh
barrage as its substitute is not considered so far. Please refer to my blog for
all these projects. Lack of interest by the Government, by its organizations,
and scarcity of fund and no water policy are the reasons for failure to build
new dams as suggested by me. </div>
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6. No. People are steeling about 16
maf of water from the Indus River indirectly in the river reach from Chashma to
Kotri. This is also the cause of shortage of water shortage that creates water
dispute. The people have installed unauthorized tube wells near the bank of the
Indus River. There is no watch on such theft by the provincial Governments and
IRSA as politicians are involved. Refer to my blog. WAPDA telemetry can serve
no purpose as this theft from the Indus is indirect, via the groundwater
pumping. </div>
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7. Kalabagh Dam site was wrongly
selected as it has the poorest capacity inflow ratio with short life span. Moreover,
WAPDA gave <b>tailored TOR </b>to the
Project consultant, imposing a wrong hydraulic design. The KBD consultant did
not agree. They suggested a design based on the concept of barrage to evacuate silt. WAPDA did not agree to the
design of consultant. Besides this, the project has become politically
controversial due to several other reasons. Please consult my blog for my articles
on KBD and on Raised Fateh Barrage. The KBD controversy cost the nation, <b>flood devastation of 2010, crippling load
shedding, water shortage and failure to implement Water Accord.</b> I conceived
Raised Fateh Barrage, a unique substitute for KBD to settle the mad
controversy. For this purpose, I recently held three meetings with the
Government of Pakistan and allied professional organizations including WAPDA.
Let us hope something good comes out of it. Delay in the construction of dams is
criminal as the remaining part of storage in Tarbela and Mangla Reservoirs will
soon silt up.<b>“death of the reservoir
starts the day it is built”.</b> We cannot afford to waste time as we have
already wasted 48 years by not building the second dam on the Indus though we
have lost 6.5 maf of storage due to rapid silting. </div>
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8 . No. I cannot suggest who can
give such information. For Indus Waters Treaty, the responsible man is the
Commissioner Indus Waters based at Lahore. This organization was sleeping all
the time since 1960 when India built 56 hydropower projects and is building
more. This organization has not pointed out that Tarbela and Mangla Reservoirs
are silted by 6.5 maf and requires replenishment. </div>
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It has also not pointed out the <b>hidden live storage</b> in the technical
terms that are wrongly defined in the Treaty in its Appendix-D. Please see my
articles for details. For example, pondage means<b> still water,</b> but the Treaty
defines it as <b>live storage.</b> </div>
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Engr Fateh ullah Khan
Gandapur
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Former Chairman IRSA.</div>
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Mobile (0300
5920641), Islamabad line No: (051 2106387),
Peshawar line No: is ( 091 5824918)</div>
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<b>Copy to Secretary Water and Power,</b> Government of Pakistan.</div>
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Please refer to your letter <b>No. W1-4(20)/2011 dated May 31,2012.</b>
Subject: <b>Articles written by Mr Fateh
ullah Khan Gandapur.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b> </b>Riaz Ahmad Khan Advisor will
be submitting his repot to you after conducting three meetings on these issues
held in IRSA Office. I submit this report for your information. I thank you for
noticing these issues and directing Riaz Ahmad Khan to hold meetings. </div>
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It is requested to take suitable action as
things are getting worst. Power shortage has created hell, floods have
destroyed the country, floods will destroy again and again, water shortage is a
great threat to cause famine, silt destroys the storage, water disputes are
growing, controversies created by WAPDA have stopped water and hydropower
development, food shortage will cause revolt. Everyone is in agony. WAPDA
attitude towards the development of water and power remained very poor. WAPDA
failed for not building dams on the Indus for a period of 37+1o=47 years itself
is a crime, because people suffered due to 2010 floods and the crippling load
shedding. I request the Government to take notice of water and power woes. </div>
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<b>Copy to Chairman IRSA.</b></div>
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All these problems are required to be solved
with the coordination of IRSA, as control on Indus River water falls under the <b>regulation and distribution of the water of
the Indus River system as provided under
the IRSA Act.</b> Moreover, Water Accord paras 2, 4, 6, and 14 (e) requires
IRSA to implement these paras. Integrated Comprehensive Water Management is the
answer to our water and power issues and to avoid all losses of water as provided
in para 14(e) of the Water Accord. WAPDA has failed as it created controversies
and a long status quo. Therefore Water Accord could not be implemented.</div>
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<b>Copy to Deputy Chairman Planning Commission,</b> Government of
Pakistan. </div>
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Planning Commission is a supreme body
consisting of top intelligent individuals in all fields. I request them to help
by bringing these devastating issues to the personal notice of the President
and the Prime Minister who are in dark.</div>
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There is no <b>Water Development Policy.</b> We cannot utilize our great natural
resources. <b>Article 38 of the
Constitution requires to develop these resources to provide food, clothing,
housing, medical facilities, education and other human needs. </b>Please advise
the President and the Prime Minister that credit will go to their Government if
multipurpose 35 maf Katzarah Dam, 8.5 maf Guroh Dop Dam and 4.4 maf Raised
Fateh Barrage are approved for construction.</div>
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Katzarah Dam will create 35 maf storage equal
to six times the storage of Basha or Kalabagh, control 100% flood in the Indus,
generate hydropower and control silt in the Indus River water that comes from
the highly erodible soil in the Skardu valley. This finding is reported by Dr
Attaullah appointed by the World Bank to investigate the source of silt in the
Indus River water. Katzarah Dam if built shall serve as Water shed Management
Dam. Basha Dam life will increase from 80 –90 years to 700 years if Katzarah is
built. Katzarah has unique narrow dam site in the world. Katzarah cost is not
more than Basha. WAPDA has intentionally avoided preparing Katzarah technical
feasibility though Nisar Memon committee directed WAPDA to prepare it at once.
WAPDA promised to prepare it by September 2005. WAPDA did not comply as it
cannot see any other dam than Kalabagh. </div>
</div>Engr. Fateh Ullah Khan Gandapur 1925-2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/05168447883122388737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8742207062836094646.post-27588293314066006002012-06-25T00:26:00.002-07:002012-06-25T00:26:17.584-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>To,<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Riaz Ahmad Khan,
Advisor, WAPDA, Lahore<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Sub: <b>Proposal to
finance the Unique multipurpose dams to support irrigated agriculture,
industries, produce food, control floods and remove woes of water, power,
floods and rapid silting.</b></div>
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It was desired by you that I should give my suggestions how
to finance these four vital projects therefore I give suggestions as follows.</div>
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For the sustenance of
the nation, suffering from many awful calamities like the crippling load
shedding, the devastating flood havoc of 2010, shortage of water, shortage of
hydropower, and non-implementation of Water Accord for 20 years, rapid silting
of reservoirs losing 6.5 maf storage, the country needs protection from these
issues by financing and implementing Katzarah Dam, Raised Fateh barrage, Guroh
Dop Dam, and Mikhani Dam storage diversion. These dams were discovered by me during
1960-61 when I was on deputation to WAPDA. No one took notice of these dams for
more than 50 years. Now, the issue of financing these projects has arisen as
the Government is unable to finance therefore,
other sources shall have to be found and attractive Water Policy be
implemented. </div>
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At present there is 35 per cent water shortage and 8500 MW
of power shortage, closure of about 70 per cent big and small industries and
the devastation of 22 per cent of the developed area of Pakistan caused by the floods
of 2010 and the rapid silting of reservoirs by 6.5 maf. All these sufferings happened
for not building these dams in time. All these accumulated water and power woes
shall have to be set right by implementing the four life saving dams. Finances
shall have to be arranged and <b>water
policy</b> made to attract financing as Dubai has done </div>
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These water and power woes can only be set right if the four
projects, namely, the unique, multipurpose, flood control 35 maf Katzarah Dam
on the Indus, and the multipurpose, flood control, 8.5 maf Guroh Dop Dam on
Panjkora River, in combination with Mirkhani Dam diverting Chitral River water to
the catchment area of Panjkora River to control floods in Kabul River besides
the generation of hydropower by these dams. Katzarah, Basha and Raised Fateh
Barrage will completely control floods in the Indus and the stored water would
be used for irrigated agriculture.</div>
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The fourth project of Raised barrage is at the tail end of
the Indus River valley, at about <b>Elevation
700, over lapping the Kalabagh Reservoir.</b> This project was initiated by me when I was
Chairman IRSA in 1994. This project is very important from many technical
points of view besides ending lifelong damaging controversy. It is a <b>unique replacement and a unique substitute for
the highly, emotional controversial, Kalabagh Dam. </b>Raised Fateh Barrage can
easily store 4.4 maf of water perennially, if built up to elevation 880. It
will store 3.4 maf of water if built up to elevation 860 as originally proposed
by me. It can store up to 6.2 maf if built to elevation 900 but I would like to
avoid this. A wonderful feature of Raised Fateh Barrage is that its hydraulic
design is unique. It can serve as balancing reservoir. This barrage will give
all time perennial storage water as it has no silting problem. The concept of
Raised Fateh barrage is in agreement with <b>the
concept of Chas T. main of</b> <b>special low
level sluices.</b> Refer to KBD Project report June, 1988, page 3.9, para 3.31.
On the other hand, Kalabagh Reservoir is<b>
time-based storage due to heavy silting. </b>The death of reservoir starts the
day it is built. Therefore avoid rapid silting of reservoirs. Few excerpts on
silting from the KBD project report are quoted. </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">The role of silt in KBD<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Reference is invited to KBD Project report 1988, page 3.5,
para 3.17. The excerpt is;</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><b>“The high
sediment load carried by the Indus at Kalabagh has an important bearing on the
design of Kalabagh and on the operation rules for the reservoir. If a high
proportion of sediment is trapped the storage volume will rapidly reduce with
the loss of irrigation benefits derived from storage. Such sedimentation could
eventually also cause unacceptable backwater effects”.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Refer to KBD Project
report, June 1988, page 3.9, para 3.31 The excerpt is;<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><b>“Chess T.
Main considered special low level sluices to achieve very low level draw down.
In this case power generation must be discontinued. Thus economic penalty is
large”.</b> </div>
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Chas T. main by special low level sluicing means a <b>barrage</b> that evacuates silt.</div>
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Refer to KBD Project report on page 3.5, para 3.17. page
4.12, para 4.57, page 3.9, para 3.31</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><b>“Upstream
of Attock gorge the flood level is sensitive to the amount of sediment so that
flood risk will increase with time”.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><b>“The
future distribution of sediment can be predicted in general terms only, and
local behavior will depend on actual
sediment inflows, reservoir operation, and local flow pattern”.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><b>“In the
long run the operation of power will be on run-of-the-river”.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Please examine the tailored TOR for KBD
that made it controversial<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><b>“Basically
the design criteria ware set during the initial appraisal of scheme and
development on line design. These were based on the requirements of the client
through the terms of reference or subsequent instructions”.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Please read and find the inside purpose of this ridiculous
TOR given by WAPDA. It is wrong to impose conditions on the consultant. He is restricted
from the sound proposal. </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Financial side of these projects and land compensation <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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The Government has no money to finance these vital life savior
four projects. Therefore, there is no alternative but to create own finances or
continue suffering from various calamities.</div>
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</span></span>The displaced population must immediately be
compensated as they will make sacrifice for the18 crores of population of
Pakistan.</div>
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</span></span>Justice demands that when the displaced persons
give sacrifice, the remaining 18 crores of population must pay the cost of
compensation in the form of contribution for the construction of the four life
saving projects. This contribution will be like toll tax on Motorway. </div>
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</span></span>The income from power royalty from these
projects must be shared with the displaced persons for 40 years or so. </div>
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</span></span>WAPDA be asked to float bonds by offering
attractive profits.</div>
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</span></span>The Head of the State should appeal to the
nations of the world to contribute and finance the four life saving projects. The
nations of the world helped Pakistan <b>after</b>
it was hit by the calamities of floods and earthquake. Let they help <b>during</b> the calamities and<b> before</b> the calamities hit Pakistan again.
This would save Pakistan from colossal loss as caused by the 2010 floods,
crippling load shedding and the earthquake that hit Balakot in 2005. All the help
would be on humanitarian basis.</div>
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</span></span>The four projects may be implemented through
public private partnership, local or foreign.</div>
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</span></span>Sometimes back, Saudi Arabia requested Pakistan
to give land on lease so that they develop it and use it for food production to
meet their future food needs. Please offer this proposal to Arab world to
finance these projects and get their share.</div>
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</span></span>All shopkeepers, bureaucrats, advocates,
industrialists, farmers, plaza owners, traders may contribute for 10 years to
finance the life saving projects to avoid load shedding, floods, and other
calamities </div>
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</span></span>The <b>zakat</b>
funds may be transferred to finance these four projects. AT present most of
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</span></span>About 90 per cent of all development projects
must stop. Money given to MNA and MPA must stop. All programs like Benazir
support program must stop as all such people that get help would be benefitted
by the four dams. Jobs will be created. </div>
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</span></span>Terrorism that is due to poverty will be removed
from Pakistan if these projects are implemented</div>
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</span></span>Finance expert may be consulted how to finance
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Beginning may be made with the Raised Fateh Barrage. It is a
short term multipurpose project, requiring short time to built, costing about $
2 billion. The hydropower income from this project may be spent on the
remaining three projects. Almost all investigation made for KBD apply to this
project. The residential colony built for KBD can be used by this project.</div>
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<b>Engr Fateh ullah
Khan Gandapur. Dated June 23, 2012<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Subject: <b>Articles
written by Mr Fateh ullah Khan Gandapur<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Irrigated Agriculture has two basic inputs. These inputs are
<b>Water</b> and <b>Land.</b> In three meetings of the committee, the Chairman of the
committee Engr Riaz Ahmad Khan Advisor has very methodically conducted the
issues, discussing all technical aspects of each issue of water woes. I
discussed dire necessity for implementing Integrated Comprehensive Water Management and
the modernization of the wasteful, incompatible and obsolete canal irrigation
system besides commenting on the IWT. I found agreement on all water issues. The
Chair thoroughly grasped the issues and further elaborated these.</div>
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However, WAPDA representative, as usual expressed opinion
not to build all dams under discussion as population would be displaced, though
these projects are technically very sound, he said. WAPDA therefore ignored and
did not discuss the technical aspects of these issues.</div>
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I suggested immediate
compensation of the displaced population as there is no other alternative for
removing the woes faced by Pakistan. Let the Government decide what is in the
interest of the State and feeding and protecting the 18 crores population.
WAPDA should not thrust its one sided decision, but solve issues on technical
merits and in greater national interest. WAPDA forgets displacement of population
by controversial dams recommended by it, like KBD, Akhori, where as, Munda,
Kurram Tangi are local dams with very small storage and the population is also
displaced by them. It is not the duty of WAPDA to reject unique dams by getting
support from the population of the affected area after creating fear in that area.
WAPDA should investigate technical merits and demerits of the project. It is
the duty of Government to make decision which dam to built, in greater national
interest.</div>
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WAPDA opposition to
these dams without technical reasons is traditional. WAPDA blunders can be
judged from the <b>failure of Kachi Canal
from Mithan Kot, Failure of SCARPs, Falure of NDP, selecting wrong dam site at
Kalabagh with poorest CI ratio making it controversial for 37 years and now
propagating against these new unique dams. </b>As WAPDA failed twice in providing
vital <b>drainage system,</b> therefore it
abandoned to provide the right type of drainage system, an integral part of
irrigation system. All these blunders are committed by WAPDA because no notice
of these failures was taken by the government. I therefore suggest to shift
WAPDA Head quarter to Islamabad to work in collaboration with IRSA. IRSA Head quarter was also shifted
from Lahore to Islamabad </div>
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<b>It is surprising that
all Governments including the Government of Pervaiz Musharraf, were kept in
dark by WAPDA. Katzarah Dam site was not pointed out to the Prime Minister when
he was laying the foundation of Basha Dam. The Technical Committee of Abbassi
and the Parliamentary Committee of Nisar Memon and the Government of Sindh and
NWFP recommended to buid Katzarah Dam but WAPDA ignored all this. Is this not
betrayal? Similarly WAPDA objects to Guroh Dop and Raised Fateh barrage that
population will be displaced though technically these are very sound projects.
It is therefore necessary that WAPDA should work under the supervision of
Government at Islamabad. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Mr M.H. Siddiqi,
consultant, an experienced and competent irrigation engineer of</b> Punjab
irrigation Department appreciated my proposals of new storage. He also
suggested that an<b> international neutral
water expert should be hired</b> to prioritize the construction of proposed dam
sites discovered by me and find their merits and demerits. The Chair also
endorsed the proposal. </div>
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The interest of 18 crores population and their requirements
must be kept in view besides giving them protection against floods and rapid
silting of reservoirs, generate cheap hydropower and store water for irrigated
agriculture to produce food, and avoid wastage of water to sea. The committee chaired
by Riaz Ahmad Khan unanimously agreed to appoint foreign consultant to get his
views.</div>
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At the end of the
committee, Riaz Ahmad Khan Advisor asked me to give my views how to finance
these four projects. I therefore give my suggestions that need to be examined
by the Government and by an economic expert. </div>
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I highly appreciate the wise and intelligent handling of
these vital issues by Riaz Ammad Khan, Advisor.</div>
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I very much
appreciate the formation of this committee by the Secretary Water and Power,
after knowing the issues. His initiative is highly appreciated.</div>
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We discussed Water issues. Similarly, I would appreciate to
discuss <b>land management issues,</b> as
land in the Indus Basin is degrading. Both issues are very important being
inputs of agriculture. The agriculture scientists in the field of agronomy,
soil management, farm water management, salinity, sodicity, water logging and
drainage of irrigated lands shall have to be discussed. At present there is no
drainage system a vital component of irrigation system. One million small tube
wells indiscriminately pumping about 45 to 50 maf of injurious drainage
effluent as groundwater for irrigation use, are playing hell with soil
degradation as they inject 350 million tons of injurious salts invisibly and
gradually in to the land each year. Even the shallow tube wells pump drainage
effluent. The drainage effluent is recycled and salts are not physically
evacuated out of the area. <b>When lands
get degraded then what is the use of water. Moreover, Integrated Comprehensive
Water Management is direly essential to save 40 to 50 maf of water that becomes
drainage effluent.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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I suggest inviting agricultural scientists from the PARC of
the department of agriculture to study land management issue of the Indus basin
and advise.</div>
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<b>Engr Fateh ullah
Khan Gandapur</b>.</div>
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Former Chairman IRSA</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Engr Riaz Ahmad Khan, Advisor, WAPDA, Lahore.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> As desired, I have submitted the financial proposal
to implement the four pivotal dams, not known to WAPDA, and ignored from vision
2025. Arranging to finance these projects is a great job. I therefore pray to
Allah to create circumstances for the implementation of these projects. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Chairman IRSA Islamabad.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> IRSA consists of five high ranking engineers,
therefore I suggest, IRSA will play vital role in building these dams to make
more water available and implement Water Accord and store floodwater that goes
waste to sea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">E M.H. Siddiqi, consultant, Punjab irrigation
department, Lahore.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> I appreciate his findings. M.H. Siddiqi has
rightly pointed out that 40% water is reduced in the existing canal system.
This needs Integrated Comprehensive Water Management. He rightly warned not to play politics in
implementing these dams but to evaluate the projects on their merits and
demerits. He therefore suggested hiring<b>
an international neutral water expert</b> to prioritized the construction of
proposed dam site. The Chair also endorsed the proposal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Encl: Proposal
to finance unique multipurpose dams to support…( three pages)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</div>Engr. Fateh Ullah Khan Gandapur 1925-2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/05168447883122388737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8742207062836094646.post-65623345227668102832012-06-12T01:13:00.001-07:002012-06-12T01:13:06.192-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Riaz Ahmad Khan, Technical Advisor,</b> GM
(C&M) water WAPDA,Wapda House Lahore </div>
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<b>Subject.</b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> Articles written by Mr Fateh ullah Khan
Gandapur<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b>Reference Secretary
Water and Power letter NoW1-4(20)/2011 dated May, 2012<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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My views after two meetings on 18 water issues (copies of
issues sent to all) were discussed hastily and superficially in about 4 to 5
hours in two sittings. Each issue in consequences is as serious as the floods
of 2010 and the ongoing crippling load shedding. The committee discussed some
issues swiftly, where WAPDA representative was arguing as an advocate to defend
the crimes of his client. This is not the way to decide the fate of each burning
issue costing billions of dollars, involving the economy, the food needs, and
existence of the country, and the well fair of the people.</div>
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All the 18 Water issues are very serious. The severe load
shedding is about to create bloody revolution. WAPDA is responsible for the
devastation of floods of 2010, the current power shortage, the water shortage, and
the rapid silting of Terbela Reservoir. for not allowing the building of Basha
Dam whose feasibility was established in 1981. WAPDA stuck to its ego for building
Kalabagh Dam with <b>tailored TOR </b>for
building the Left bank canal with 15,000 cusecs discharge for Punjab. Refer to KBD
Project report June 1991. WAPDA fixed wrong dam site at Kalabagh with tailored
design that was kept secret from the then Government of NWFP for its wrong, <b>restricted mid-level silt sluicing
hydraulic design and the left bank canal.</b> WAPDA did not allow building of another
dam in 37 years, when 4 dams could be built in 37 years. This negligence caused
devastation. WAPDA did that with the nation which the terrorists could not do.
Besides the above, Kachi canal planed by
WAPDA failed, SCARPs failed, NDP failed, Kalabagh made controversial by
selecting and fixing dam at wrong site with
wrong design and now <b>the 35 maf, unique
Katzarah Dam is made controversial by frightening the people of the area, the authorities
of Northern areas, and the Government of Pakistan. WAPDA hides merits and
announces demerits.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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In case of <b>Katzarah
Dam</b> discovered by me in1960-61 and repeatedly pointed out to WAPDA, WAPDA
only prepared its wrong and exaggerated
environmental aspect with a view to show that it is not feasible
environmentally. WAPDA<b> did not touch the
unique, one in four, technical benefits of 35maf storage that is 6 times of
KBD, controlling flood in the Indus, huge power generation and the unique
benefit of controlling silt from Skardu valley that would increase life span of
all downstream reservoirs.</b> Pakistan has no major reservoirs except
Katzarah, Basha and Guroh Dop. All other reservoirs are either very small or
problematic. There is no dam site on Kabul River, Jehlum River and Chenab
River. Indus is the only river and Katzarah is the only unique dam site on the
Indus that would also work as water shed management dam. Let WAPDA study my
articles on <b>Katzarah Dam, Guroh Dop Dam,
Mirkhani Dam and Fateh barrage</b> sent to all concerned. Please get copies
from IRSA or the Secretary Water and Power. Similarly get copies of the
remaining issues from IRSA or the Ministry.</div>
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It is the duty of WAPDA to investigate <b>the technical merits and demerits of each project, </b>specially the
Katzarah Dam, Fateh barrage, Guroh Dop Dam and Mirkhani Dam. It is for the
Government to make decision to build the project or not after judging its
merits and demerits and after obtaining views of foreign consultants. WAPDA has
no authority to reject a project on its own on exaggerated environment issue
and not touching a bit of its multipurpose unique merits. This proves WAPDA’s
psyche of negative tendency and obstinacy. It is surprising that during the
foundation ceremony of Basha, the unique Katzarah was not pointed to the Prime
Minister when he was in that very locality.</div>
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<b>The unique Katzarah
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It is a unique, <b>one
in four</b> project with almost indefinite life span. It creates 35 maf
storage, six times KBD, generates cheap hydropower, controls 100 per cent floods
in the Indus, and controls silt to increase life of all downstream reservoirs.
Basha life will increase from 80 years to 700 years. Tarbala remaining life
will increase by 40 to 45 years. Katzarah
will implement Water Accord by meeting its 22 maf storage requirement. It will replenish 6.5 maf replacement storage
lost. Why WAPDA has shut its eyes to these unique technical merits. Contrary to
this, WAPDA is frightening the local residents and is creating KBD type of
controversy. Please compare the well being of 18 crores population at the cost
of submergence of silt releasing Skardu valley. It’s the Government job to make
decision for building Katzarah and not WAPDA. My report on Katzarah <b>Dam </b>may be examined in details.</div>
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Basically this short term project is substitute for the
controversial KBD to bring peace between
the fighting provinces. The KBD project consultants have also indicated <b>to provide unrestricted low-level silt
sluicing hydraulic structure</b> replacing the KBD dictated design. The
consultants meant high barrage. A 260 feet high dam suffers from silting
problem as reported by the KBD consultants. The consultants have also indicated
to reduce its height from 260 feet to 160 feet because of weak foundation. Fateh
barrage will cost $2 billion and completed in 2.5 years. <b>It will function as balancing reservoir for Tarbela reservoir when more
power is needed at Tarbela.</b> WAPDA estimated
power generation of Fateh barrage as 1366 MW. Actually it is much more. It’s
a run-of-river project, will create minimum to maximum power depending on the
river flow. KBD planned to irrigate<b> Laki
Marwat area </b>from the KBD lake through tunnel. Fateh Barrage will also cover
the same area and not Karak as mentioned by WAPDA. <b>Please refer to “Introducing Kalabagh Dam Project” Report June , 1991
issued by WAPDA.</b> WAPDA cheating may be noticed that in 10 days it has
counted the population of the area and the numbers of villages that will be
submerged. All this is jugglery of words to depict projects infeasible. The reservoir is confined to steep hill where
it is not possible for the villages to develop. This is only stated to shelve
the project initiated by me that hurts WAPDA ego—a strong mafia. </div>
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Moreover, the storage water will be released during the
period of low supplies. Every now and then freshets come that will be stored. How
can the reservoir be empty from October to May? Is the Indus River dry? Will
this be the situation with KBD? Hydrology of KBD and Fateh barrage is the same.
Storage water will properly be regulated. Investigation will reveal facts.
WAPDA should not form opinion on its whim. <b>I
may inform you that at elevation 880, the gross storage is 4.4 maf and even
then the reservoir will be short of Attock gorge.</b> <b>The gross storage of 4.4 maf created by Fateh barrage is equal to the
joint gross storage of Bunji, Dasu, Munda, Kurram Tangi Dams.</b> Is this not
something unique? We can easily create storage upto 4.4 maf instead of 3.4 maf. We can further go up to Elevation
900 for storing 6 maf or so. In that case the reservoir will reach Attock
Gorge. Investigation will reveal the quantity
of reasonable storage. The barrage involves no silting problem and backwater
flow as KBD. It will cost very low. WAPDA arguments are unreliable. Please get
opinion of foreign consultants. Refer to storage capacity curve prepared by
WAPDA that can help to decide the quantity of reasonable storage. </div>
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WAPDA tries to prove that Dr Pieter Lieftnic report on
Akhori is wrong. I do not agree with WAPDA. Dr Lieftnick clearly says Gariala
site is preferred to Akhori. For this, he gives reasons. Let the Government
decide if it agrees with Dr Lieftnic or WAPDA. Dr Lieftnic has pointed out many
drawbacks which seem to be serious. WAPDA is habitual in planning wrong projects
such as Kachi Canal, SCARPs, NDP, KBD etc. all that miserably failed and
billions of rupees wasted. <b>Why, no
inquiry was made for these failures? We must know the causes of failure for
accountability and for getting wise.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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“ For any such undertakings, <b>Tarbela would have to be built to elevation 1565 feet in order to
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of earth moving would be involved and that serious foundation problems would be
encountered. The Akhori project was deemed less favorable than Gariala. (page
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“To convey the Indus water from Tarbela to Gariala; a canal
some five miles long, with a capacity of 76000 cusecs, would be constructed
from the Siran arm of the Tarbela reservoir”</div>
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In view of above muddy situation, a fair and sound opinion
about these projects can only be given by<b>
hiring known foreign consultants.</b> They may be asked to prepare only the
very preliminary feasibility reports of these four projects. I have found that
my articles/papers on Katzarah and other schemes have not been studied in
details. Therefore the two days discussion was all vague and flying. Correct
conclusion cannot be drawn.</div>
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It is pointed out that in IRSA Act, the Chairman WAPDA is
made ex-officio Member IRSA. This naturally means he should be technical man to
actively participate in all such vital technical discussions on projects
costing $ billions. On the completion of term of the present Chairman, the next
Chairman should be an experienced technical person. In my opinion, I consider
Riaz Ahmad Khan Technical Advisor to WAPDA as the most suitable man for the job.</div>
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Let Foreign Consultant give advice on these projects. They
should be asked to further improve these. I give only the project concept which
may further be improved. My figures are very rough and needs investigation and
confirmation. All technical details of
projects may be investigated by the consultants.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Storage problem in Indus Waters Treaty
due to silting<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">How much live storage under definitions is created by
India in 32 hydraulic structures under the Indus Waters Treaty<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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The Foreign Ministry of Pakistan may request the Government
of India to let us know the aggregate quantity of live storage created in maf on
the 32 hydraulic projects under the technical definition in Appendix-D, that
is, <b>Live storage water under Pondage,
Surcharge storage as floodwater storage, storage created under the run-of-river
including pondage storage and operating pool live storage.</b></div>
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The gross replacement storage of Tarbela and Mangla
Reservoirs built under the Indus Water Treaty, lost about 6.5 maf storage due
to rapid silting. The storage were created to compensate for the loss of
perennial water diverted by India from the canals in Eastern Punjab. The lost
storage needs replenishment otherwise the Treaty would become inefficacious.
India may be request under the Treaty to pay the cost for creating replacement
storage or contribute as before. </div>
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The above two basic issues that is, <b>silting of reservoirs and storage created under technical definitions</b>
escaped un-noticed so far, may please be clarified in a spirit of love and
mutual respect. Senator John Kerry report arouses sense of danger. </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Senator John Kerry Report to US senate,
India stored enough water to limit the supply of water to Pakistan<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Senator John Kerry report to US Senate created alarm. It
appears India has created enough water to harm Pakistan at critical moment in
the growing season. Furthermore, John Kerry has shown fear of water war to
congress. An excerpt from John Kerry report is reproduced.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“India has acquired the ability to store
enough water to limit the supply of water to Pakistan at critical moment in the
growing season”.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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The above statement is extremely political with far reaching
consequences. Every word is full of meanings that need political and technical
analysis. The Foreign Ministry and our legal experts may study this statement.
We want to know live storage created under the definition of terms in view of
John Kerry report and the various reports from media showing water war by using
water as weapon of mass destruction by creating famine like situation in
Pakistan..</div>
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<b>Engr Fateh ullah khan
Gandapur<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Former Chairman IRSA.
</b> Mobile 0300-5920641 June 9, 2012</div>
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<b>Copy to;<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Secretary Ministry of
Water and Power,</b> Islamabad for information. The situation is brought to his
notice for guidance and decision. Government decision is required to proceed
further. WAPDA head quarter may be shifted to Islamabad to work in close
coordination with IRSA and other professional organizations at Islamabad. </div>
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Chairman IRSA Islamabad for expressing Authority views to
the Government. Water regulation and its management and distribution fall under
the jurisdiction of IRSA. These schemes are part of water regulation. </div>
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Minister for Water and power for information. He may decide
to appoint foreign consultants to give pre-feasibility reports on at least four
projects. Moreover, WAPDA may be directed not to frighten the people of
Northern area. WAPDA is implanting controversy for Katzarah Dam. WAPDA did the
same for KBD.</div>
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Copy to; All Members of the committee for
information and offering written views</div>
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</div>Engr. Fateh Ullah Khan Gandapur 1925-2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/05168447883122388737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8742207062836094646.post-32581376642241439262012-06-10T23:56:00.001-07:002012-06-10T23:56:39.151-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Rod-Kohi area of Kulachi Tehsil has
floodwater rights in<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> Gomal Zam Dam. Water rights area of Rod-Kohi under
Gomal Zam Dam cannot be ignored from irrigation in view of Riwaj-abpashi if storage
water is available<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Rod-Kohi area has
water rights in Gomal Zam. No one can deny these water rights after controlling
floodwater of Gomal Zam Dam. Floodwater after storage belongs to Rod-Kohi area.
Therefore no Rod-Kohi area should remain un commanded. The network of canal
system should include this left over water rights area. The Rod–Kohi area
covers almost the entire area of Kulachi Tehsil subject to the quantity of
water available each year. As a matter of principle the water rights area must form
project boundary. The network of canals should be planned to cover the entire
area that has water rights under Rod-Kohi. The Rod-Kohi area has legal water
rights under the Rewaj-ab-pashi. The Rod-Kohi irrigation means floodwater
irrigation from hill torrents. Water to the new area can only be given after
covering the entire Rod-Kohi area.</div>
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There are two types of water rights. The one area almost gets
perennial water on a very small scale and the other area under Rod-Kohi gets
floodwater that is now stored. Both the types of areas have the rights in
storage water of Gomal Zam. New area if any should be given the last priority. Project
Manager letter reveals that about 66000 hecters of land would be covered by the
project. 66000 Hecter of land is a lot of land. This is equal to about 163,000
acres of land. Moreover, if sprinkler
and drip irrigation for irrigation is used, water will be saved and then water may
extend to new areas. All this should be planned from day one. Extension of the
system later on would be a severe problem. The infighting may be bloody. </div>
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It is not understood why some water rights area is ignored of
its water rights by the project planners. I believe this must be due to
ignorance. This will result in bloodshed as no one would be ready that its area
under Rod-Kohi is ignored. After the construction of dam, the price of land has
raised from about 20-50 rupees per Kanal to Rs 35000- per Kanal and will
further increase.</div>
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The Project Director has revealed that revenue record shows
that 107 Mouzas have water rights on Gomal Zam, against this, 67 Mouzas have
been considered in the planning of irrigation system within the project
boundary. It is said this blunder is committed by the then Government of NWFP. It
needs correction at the earliest. Water should not be released till then
otherwise burning problem would be created. </div>
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During the planning of irrigation system, it was estimated
that the average inflow is 674 Mm/year, whereas, the network of canal system
within the project boundary is estimated to use only 400Mm/year. This shows the
remaining inflow of 200Mm/year will remain unutilized in the system. It appears
that the water rights area of Rod-Kohi is ignored. This may now be set right.</div>
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It will be impossible to extend the canal irrigation system
to the area once ignored as the US aid will stop. Now there is chance to revise
the project and continue getting aid from USA for the water rights area ignored.
Once the US aid stops, it will be impossible to extend the project. The farmer
then would never allow extending the system. The upper riparian will think
their water rights are being usurped to favor lower area. Besides this, there
will be no money. I am of the opinion that the work should continue till all water
rights area is brought under canal system using 674 Mm/Year.</div>
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The area having water rights in Rod-Kohi floodwater cannot
be ignored when 200Mm/year water is available.
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I may inform you that I discovered the Khajuri Katch dam site
on Gomal River in 1959. But WAPDA could not complete Gomal Zam even in 2012
though the initial work at dam site was started by me in 1959. The work on old
dam site on upper most reach of Gomal River was abandoned. Now in this project,
as I understand more than one-third of the project area that has water rights in
floodwater in Gomal Zam is ignored. This
means, the project is made inherently disputable from day one. This dispute which
may take very long time must be avoided as stored water <b>is time-based and very precious. </b>Irrigation of this area will
change the very life pattern of the people by removing poverty. </div>
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The area needs rapid development by mechanized farming. It
needs cultivation by modern lines. The people have land in pieces. I suggest
some sort of partnership with investors, especially the Arab world. The farmers
should give land say for 40 or 50 years and the investors may do the rest of
all developments. The investor share as fixed in cash or in kind may be taken
away by them. The ownership of land will remain with the owners. He will get
benefit according to his share of land. Let economist improve the suggestion. </div>
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Engr. Fateh ullah khan </div>
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Former Chairman IRSA.
Mobile 0300-5920641 Dated June 7. 2012 </div>
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</div>Engr. Fateh Ullah Khan Gandapur 1925-2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/05168447883122388737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8742207062836094646.post-67692394708993271442012-06-10T23:49:00.001-07:002012-06-10T23:50:09.981-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Water issues faced by Pakistan<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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The alarming water issues that
require immediate solutions are, <b>Water
shorter, hydro-power shortage, Floods, rapid silting of reservoirs, preventing
salinity in the Indus basin, one million small tube wells indiscriminately pumping
huge ‘saline drainage effluent as groundwater’ for irrigation use that increase
salinity, Water wastage in the 150 years old, incompatible and obsolete canal
irrigation system requiring modernization, no drainage system to evacuate
salinity, undertaking Integrated Comprehensive Water Management to save water,
Water shed Management of Indus River to control Silting of reservoirs and
selecting multipurpose dam site. </b></div>
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<b>General issues are;<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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1.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span>The
Kalabagh Dam hydraulic design and its dam site created political and technical
controversies. The KBD Consultants recommended <b>100 days low-level silt sluicing hydraulic design</b> whereas WAPDA,
under the <b>tailored TOR </b>insisted for<b> 50 days restricted mid-level sluicing
design. </b>Status quo prevailed on political controversy for 37 years as no
other dam was considered to be built though feasibility of Basha was ready in
1981, about 31 years ago. Basha Dam will take another 10 years. <b>The result for absence of dam is flood
havoc of 2010, crippling load shedding, water shortage and economic
destruction.</b> More floods are expected in the absence of <b>Katzarah Dam, Guroh Dop Dam and Raised
Fateh Barrage. Kalabagh is not the dam site as its capacity-inflow ratio
indicates. There is best site for raised barrage only three miles upstream of
KBD—with a unique combination of low dam and barrage over it. I prepared unique
substitute for KBD in 1994. It is now resubmitted.</b> </div>
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2.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span>Climate
change is a serious threat. It will affect rivers flow. First more river
discharge and in the second phase less discharge. The building of dams for both
phases is a dire necessary. Plan multipurpose dams to increase greenery. I
recommend the 35 maf Katzarah Dam and the 8.5 maf Guroh Dop Dams. <b>If Kazarah is not built, Pakistan will lose
two-third of its storage potential, waste floodwater and India would assume we
do not need water. </b> </div>
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3.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span>Has
any Master plan for flood control, hydropower generation and silt control
projects conceived? If so, name the feasible dams with storage capacity.</div>
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4.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span>Rapid
silting of reservoirs is the greatest danger to the useful life of our limited
reservoirs. There are no dam sites on Kabul, Jehlum and Chenab Rivers. Tarbela
and Mangla gross storage silted up by 6.5 maf that affected IWT replacement
storage, the Water Accord and created shortage of water. It affects agriculture
production. Had any steps for Water shed management taken to reduce silt in the
Indus? This is necessary to increase life of Basha Dam and other on its
downstream. The source of silt in the Indus, according to the study conducted
by Dr Attaullah, appointed by the World Bank, is <b>the highly erodible soil of Skardu valley.</b> Katzarah will submerge
the silt generating area in Skardu valley, stop silt flow by working as Water
shed Management Dam. Please seriously consider it. Katzarah is recommended by the Government of Sindh,
and the Parliamentary and Technical Committees appointed by the President. In
this respect, I do not agree with the views of WAPDA to ignore Katzarah on the
grounds that Baltic culture will be submerged. The unique technical merits of
Katzarah cannot be ignored. <b>Moreover,
the Government should make decision to build or not to build Katzarah and not
WAPDA after considering its unique and multipurpose technical merits.</b> WAPDA
is habitual in creating controversies from day one. Will WAPDA prefer that
Pakistan should go water scarce, its 18 crores population may suffer hunger,
but Baltic culture should not be displaced? Should 35 maf floodwater go waste
by not building Katzarah? <b>Can two-third water storage potential be
sacrificed?</b> Which technical flaws
WAPDA has found in Katzarah? This shows WAPDA must jointly work with IRSA at
Islamabad.</div>
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5.<span style="font-size: 7pt;">
</span>IRSA declared its storage water requirement as 22 maf.
Which feasible dams would create 22 maf of storage? WAPDA should name the dams
without Katzarah.</div>
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6.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span>Please
note that Akhori Dam is rejected by Dr Pieter Lieftnick as stated in his report
Vol-I on the grounds that it has weak foundation for a dam height of 250 feet,
but now WAPDA has raised its height to 420 feet, increasing storage capacity,
involving huge water diversion in short period, ignoring Dr Lieftnick’s recommendations. Akhori involves earthwork more than two times
of Tarbela Dam. Moreover, Dr Pieter Lieftnic says, to divert huge Indus water
in two months, the height of Tarbela Dam shall have to be raised by 15 feet. Is
that possible?</div>
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7.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span>Water
Accord paras 2, 4, 6, 7, 14 (e) of <b>IRSA
Act </b>is not implemented for the past 20 years. On the contrary about 6.5 maf
of gross storage is lost due to rapid silting. Thus water shortage problem is
not yet solved. Let IRSA and WAPDA jointly work at Islamabad to solve issues.</div>
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8.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span>IRSA
is responsible to implement Water Accord under para 13, but it is given no
powers. IRSA should be given powers. At the same time, WAPDA Head quarter may
be shifted to Islamabad for close coordination with IRSA to implement Water
Accord and to replenish lost storage to revive IWT and remove water shortage.
This is why Chairman WAPDA is made ex-officio Member IRSA. On the expiry of the
present non-professional Chairman WAPDA, the next Chairman should be
experienced irrigation engineer to actively participate and foresee these water
issues and help solving them. I recommend Riaz Ahmad Khan Advisor—the most
suitable and experienced water resource engineer who knows these problems. </div>
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9.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span>Prepare
a<b> Master plan to control floods, solve
water shortage, hydro-power shortage, rapid silting of reservoirs, salinity,
and water wastage.</b> It is direly essential to save huge wastage of water in
the canal system that is <b>150 year old,
incompatible and obsolete wasting about 45 to 50 maf of water.</b> Moreover,
new area is also to be brought under irrigation, preferably
Kachi plain, to meet food needs of the expanding population. It is IRSA,
WAPDA and PARC joint responsibility to avoid delay. I discovered Khajuri Kach
dam site in 1959, started work on it but WAPDA delayed its completion till
2012. </div>
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10.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span>It is
surprising that the world’s largest contiguous canal irrigation system is
without its integral component of <b>drainage
system to control and remove saline drainage effluent.</b> The canal irrigation
system requires protection against salinity, sodicity and water logging.
Drainage is essential part of irrigation, <b>but
is missing.</b> Tile drainage will protect land from getting infertile
otherwise <b>water</b> will be of no use
when Indus basin goes saline waste. </div>
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11.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span>Two mega
drainage projects of SCARPs and NDP based on wrong project concept of tube well
to evacuate and control salinity failed one after the other. Later on, these
were abandoned. It appears nobody could conceive the correct <b>technical definitions of Drainage. Similar
is the case of defining Irrigation, Leaching and Water Management.</b> I can
provide recognized technical definitions to correctly conceive project concept
if asked for. Projects should be prepared as per their technical definitions,
adopting correct project concept. Therefore, it is vital that Food and
Agriculture department, WAPDA, IRSA must jointly work at Islamabad as water is
basic input of agriculture. </div>
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12.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span>Farmers
after knowing that groundwater is available installed more than one million
private small tube wells, indiscriminately pumping about 50 maf of injurious
saline <b>drainage effluent </b>as
groundwater for irrigation. This injurious drainage effluent injects about 350
million tons of injurious salts each year into the soil rendering it infertile.
The process of salinity is going on gradually and invisibly. The Indus basin is
turning into saline waste. Over and above, the one million tube wells could be
consuming about 2000 MW of power. </div>
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13.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span>Lacy canal
system has become obsolete and highly wasteful besides incompatible to meet
intensive crop water requirements in time and in proper dozes. Silting shows
canal has failed. It needs modernization by carrying out <b>integrated comprehensive water management (ICWM) </b>as per its true
definition. The canal system may need redesigning as per Mannings Formula with
silt carrying velocity. Let us consider If 20 maf of water is saved by lining
the <b>obsolete canal system,</b> then,
will it be possible to use the saved water to bring new area outside the
command or the saved water used on the existing crops? Moreover, the one million miles of water
courses be replaced by <b>pipe supply</b>
to avoid seepage losses, evaporation losses and theft. Use sprinkler and drip
irrigation methods to save more water. Abandoned the wasteful and obsolete <b>Warabandi.</b> This will again save water
with in the old command area. How and where to use the saved water? All water
losses are to be removed in view of para 14 ( e ) of the Water Accord – a legal
binding. Therefore, ICWM is necessary.</div>
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<b>Indian
water threat is hanging over our heads as India has built 32 water projects. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>14.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal;">
</span></b>Salinity and sodicity is a great problem. This
needs control by maintaining water table and evacuating excessive salts out of
the area. <b>This requires surface and
sub-service tile drainage. </b>After leaching the soil, evacuating salinity,
reclaiming land, the return drainage effluent from the reclaimed soil would be
useable for irrigation on the downstream.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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15.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span>All natural
drains in the country are blocked by encroachments in violation of the <b>Canal and Drainage Act of 1857.</b> This
needs revival. Sindh is a <b>drainage bowl</b>
of the Indus basin. I understand flood water of 2010 and rainwater 2011 is
still standing in pockets as natural drains are encroached. </div>
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16.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span>All
Pakistan Grand Canal from Chashma barrage proposed by me in 1961 was ignored.
The gravity flow canal would have passed through Sibi Town, irrigating the
whole of Kachi plain, besides other provinces. Kachi canal from Mithan Kot failed
due to poor planning, and now is taken off from Taunsa barrage still depriving
large area of Baluchistan. Is Chashma site not a great loss forever? Can we do
something now?</div>
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17.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span>I
understand there are huge losses (about 16 maf) due to theft/unauthorized water
use in Indus River from Chashma to Kotri. Investigate these losses. Indus River
needs channelization after building Basha Dam and Katzarah Dam. It will reclaim
about 3 to 3.5 million acres of fertile land from its 14 miles wide waterway.
Grow forest on recovered land.</div>
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18.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span>Pakistan is
not a member of the <b>UN Watercourses
Convention.</b> Why?<b> </b>Get membership.
It will help solving water issues with
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<b>Recommendations<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Such series of meetings for the
first time, have initiated steps to solve chronic water issues under the chair
of Riaz Ahmad Khan, technical advisor and other experts from all professional
organizations -- a right step to solve chronic issues. I would also recommend hiring foreign
company, like HARZA for detailed preparation of projects. HARZA worked in the
Indus basin for 40 years as General Consultants to the Ministry of Water, and
WAPDA. Let they work on new projects with IRSA to implement Water Accord and
solve other water issues. Alternately, Chinese Consultants be considered. The
current discussion will prove more helpful if written views are given by the
participants <b>in case where they
disagree.</b> Money or no money, project concept for solving water issues must
be conceived and be ready. There should be<b>
Constitutional provision to solve these issues in 5 year plans each Government.</b>
Political parties should include this in their mandate. This implementation
falls under <b>Article 38 of the
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It is surprising that Army has banned the issue of <b>GTS maps from the Survey of Pakistan.</b>
Water Resource Engineers cannot plan without the GTS maps. The ban should be
removed from Engineers. They should be allowed to place indents on the Survey
of Pakistan as before. <b>I found GTS maps
as seven wonder of the world.</b> A gift left by the British. </div>
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on India acquiring ability to store enough water at critical moment in the
growing season. perennial Replenishment of 6.5 maf replacement storage by India
lost to silting, and unaccounted storage created by India under technical
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Indus Waters Treaty.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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In the last meeting the Commissioner Indus Waters Treaty Pakistan
informed the committee that India has not created more live storage on our
rivers in 32 hydraulic structures, including dams. He said that water stored by
India is even less than what is allowed under the Treaty. It is however
surprising that all the Daily News papers like DAWN and the NEWS report that
India has created much more live storage than as allowed in the 32 hydraulic
structures including big dams. At the same time US Senator John Kerry alarming report
to US Senate on India acquiring ability to store enough water at critical
moment for Rabi and early Kharif indicates scarcity of water to be created by India
by holding enough water, as India can limit the supply of water to Pakistan.
How one should estimate the quantity of <b>“enough
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therefore indicates substantial storage. Present water availability situation
indicates that <b>there is more than 40 per
cent water shortage at the critical moment in this growing season.</b> This
creates doubt though one may blame climate change. IRSA has therefore called
Advisory Committee meeting on 5<sup>th</sup> June to examine the water situation.
John Kerry report indicates <b>creation of enough storage that may affect
Rabi and early Kharif.</b> There is therefore need to find true situation,</div>
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In order to know the truth, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs may
write to India <b>how much live storage India
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I believe unaccountable hidden storage is created by India <b>in the guise of technical definitions, such
as, pondage, surcharge storage, operating pool and run-of-river even that
includes pond.</b> India may be requested to let us know the aggregate storage
on account of technical definitions. This is necessary to know as India does
not count storage in this form. The Treaty allows 2.85 maf of water storage to
India on our rivers whereas India has created large storage under these
definitions as part of design and not as violation of Treaty. India has
acquired the ability to store enough water to affect our Rabi and early Kharif
crops. The present water shortage has created doubt that India may have created
extra storage by adopting a technical trick. The height of dam and its hydraulic
design is fixed by India according to their discretion. The Government may investigate
to know what John Kerry means by <b>enough
water,</b> and how much more storage water, India created under the definitions
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apply to multipurpose big storage dam <b>but
not to a project on run-of-river.</b> The 2.85 maf water storage allowed under
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the Treaty at Tarbela and Mangla have already <b>silted up by 6.5 maf.</b> This has rendered the Treaty<b> inefficacious.</b> <b>The lost replacement storage needs perennial Replenishment to revive
the Treaty.</b> Please examine this aspect in detail. The Foreign Ministry may take
up the case with India on the two issues.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">18 chronic Water issues to be seriously studied.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Besides the above, the 18 vital water issues raised by me
may be discussed point by point to reach joint and definite conclusions. Anyone
who differs may submit his views in writing. Verbal views have no record.</div>
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Copy to all Members with reference to the Secretary Water
and Power letter No W1-4(20)/2011 dated May 31, 2012 for examination in the
light of John Kerry report that India built 32 hydraulic projects including
dams and the unknown aggregate storage created by India in these hydraulic
structures in the guise of technical terms or definitions like, pondage,
surcharge storage, operating pool and
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The repercussions created by 6.5 maf silting of Tarbela and
Mangla may also be discussed what next step is to be taken for their perennial
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Copt to Riaz Ahmad Khan Technical Advisor WAPDA House Lahore
for information. I request written views of Members may be recorded who have
different views for record. The meetings may continue till all 18 water issues
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The country severely suffers from severe load shedding, this
destroyed economy. The country suffers from acute water shortage, rapid silting
of reservoirs, injurious salinity and sodicity, devastating floods, huge water
losses. It suffers from wrong planning and inefficiency that creates indefinite
controversies. KBD controversy, Kachi Canal shifting alignment, wrong project
concepts adopted in SCARPs, NDP, lack of sub-surface and sub-surface drainage,
and no water management. These water issues and others are to be solved. </div>
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Subject- <b>Articles written
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I am attaching <b>18
serious Water and Power issues</b> for solution. Each issue is as serious as
the present energy shortage/load shedding that ruined the country. These issues
are besides the issue of<b> 6.5 maf
replacement storage lost to silting </b>in the IWT and the <b>unaccountable storage</b> created by India under technical definitions
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The Kalabagh Dam’s 37 years bitter controversy, and the
absence of dams for 37+10=47 years, has caused devastating floods in 2010 and
the present crippling load shedding that destroyed economy besides creating
water shortage. Basha Dam feasibility
was established in 1981 but WAPDA did not build it under its policy of
“Kalabagh Dam or no other dam”.</div>
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I have conceived a unique hydraulic design as <b>substitute for Kalabagh Dam</b> with unique
benefits, costing about $2.5 to 3 billion. <b>The
project involves no land acquisition, no land compensation and no population
moment.</b> The project consists of 100 feet low dam with 60 feet barrage on
its crest. The dead storage created by the 100 feet dam will silt up and the
barrage will <b>create 3.4 maf live storage
to be repeatedly filled</b> as the annual flow is about 93 maf. It will
generate about 1500 to 6000 MW of hydropower on run-of-river to be completed in
3 years. The reservoir will be within the Indus River valley up to RL 860 feet.
The resevoir will extent to 7 miles short of Attock gorge in the valley. The
site of <b>Raised Fateh Barrage</b> is
about 3 miles on the upstream of Kalabagh Dam site within the Indus River
valley at elevation 700. The project would be free of controversy. </div>
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The multipurpose Raised barrage would serve as short term,
face saving, water and power project far better than KBD.</div>
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The Raised barrage as substitute for KBD, is one of the 18
water issues, requiring discussions, solutions and implementation. It is
surprising that out 12 top organizations that deal with water for Agriculture are
silent about these water issues. Status quo prevails. </div>
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<b>Chairman IRSA. </b> IRSA may indicate how would it meet its 22 maf
storage requirement? IRSA is responsible for the regulation of Indus flows, and
the storage dams form part of Indus water regulation. It is suggested that WAPDA
Head quarter may be shifted to Islamabad for close coordination with IRSA in
implementing Water Accord. For this reason, the IRSA Act made Chairman WAPDA as
ex-officio Member IRSA. Both organizations should be at one station. The IRSA
Act also indicates that Chairman WAPDA should be professional to actively
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<b>Minister for Water
and Power </b>may take serious notice of these issues. Lesson should be learnt
from 2010 flood devastation and the crippling load shedding. These issues may
be solved with Constitutional support in view of Article 38.</div>
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<b>Copy to: Minister for
Foreign Affairs.</b> The storage issues created by the silting of replacement
storage of 6.5 maf under IWT at Tarbela and Mangla need settlement. The unaccountable
storage created by India under the technical definitions in Appendix – D for
the 32 hydraulic structures built by India including dams may be asked from
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created by India in 32 hydropower generation projects is very alarming as he
fears water war between Pakistan and India. It therefore needs investigation what
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> Gomal Zam Dam. Water rights area of Rod-Kohi under
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water rights in Gomal Zam. No one can deny these water rights after controlling
floodwater of Gomal Zam Dam. Floodwater after storage belongs to Rod-Kohi area.
Therefore no Rod-Kohi area should remain un commanded. The network of canal
system should include this left over water rights area. The Rod–Kohi area
covers almost the entire area of Kulachi Tehsil subject to the quantity of
water available each year. As a matter of principle the water rights area must form
project boundary. The network of canals should be planned to cover the entire
area that has water rights under Rod-Kohi. The Rod-Kohi area has legal water
rights under the Rewaj-ab-pashi. The Rod-Kohi irrigation means floodwater
irrigation from hill torrents. Water to the new area can only be given after
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There are two types of water rights. The one area almost gets
perennial water on a very small scale and the other area under Rod-Kohi gets
floodwater that is now stored. Both the types of areas have the rights in
storage water of Gomal Zam. New area if any should be given the last priority. Project
Manager letter reveals that about 66000 hecters of land would be covered by the
project. 66000 Hecter of land is a lot of land. This is equal to about 163,000
acres of land. Moreover, if sprinkler
and drip irrigation for irrigation is used, water will be saved and then water may
extend to new areas. All this should be planned from day one. Extension of the
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its water rights by the project planners. I believe this must be due to
ignorance. This will result in bloodshed as no one would be ready that its area
under Rod-Kohi is ignored. After the construction of dam, the price of land has
raised from about 20-50 rupees per Kanal to Rs 35000- per Kanal and will
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that 107 Mouzas have water rights on Gomal Zam, against this, 67 Mouzas have
been considered in the planning of irrigation system within the project
boundary. It is said this blunder is committed by the then Government of NWFP. It
needs correction at the earliest. Water should not be released till then
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that the average inflow is 674 Mm/year, whereas, the network of canal system
within the project boundary is estimated to use only 400Mm/year. This shows the
remaining inflow of 200Mm/year will remain unutilized in the system. It appears
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It will be impossible to extend the canal irrigation system
to the area once ignored as the US aid will stop. Now there is chance to revise
the project and continue getting aid from USA for the water rights area ignored.
Once the US aid stops, it will be impossible to extend the project. The farmer
then would never allow extending the system. The upper riparian will think
their water rights are being usurped to favor lower area. Besides this, there
will be no money. I am of the opinion that the work should continue till all water
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I may inform you that I discovered the Khajuri Katch dam site
on Gomal River in 1959. But WAPDA could not complete Gomal Zam even in 2012
though the initial work at dam site was started by me in 1959. The work on old
dam site on upper most reach of Gomal River was abandoned. Now in this project,
as I understand more than one-third of the project area that has water rights in
floodwater in Gomal Zam is ignored. This
means, the project is made inherently disputable from day one. This dispute which
may take very long time must be avoided as stored water <b>is time-based and very precious. </b>Irrigation of this area will
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The area needs rapid development by mechanized farming. It
needs cultivation by modern lines. The people have land in pieces. I suggest
some sort of partnership with investors, especially the Arab world. The farmers
should give land say for 40 or 50 years and the investors may do the rest of
all developments. The investor share as fixed in cash or in kind may be taken
away by them. The ownership of land will remain with the owners. He will get
benefit according to his share of land. Let economist improve the suggestion. </div>
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<b>Subject.</b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> Articles written by Mr Fateh ullah Khan
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My views after two meetings on 18 water issues (copies of
issues sent to all) were discussed hastily and superficially in about 4 to 5
hours in two sittings. Each issue in consequences is as serious as the floods
of 2010 and the ongoing crippling load shedding. The committee discussed some
issues swiftly, where WAPDA representative was arguing as an advocate to defend
the crimes of his client. This is not the way to decide the fate of each burning
issue costing billions of dollars, involving the economy, the food needs, and
existence of the country, and the well fair of the people.</div>
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All the 18 Water issues are very serious. The severe load
shedding is about to create bloody revolution. WAPDA is responsible for the
devastation of floods of 2010, the current power shortage, the water shortage, and
the rapid silting of Terbela Reservoir. for not allowing the building of Basha
Dam whose feasibility was established in 1981. WAPDA stuck to its ego for building
Kalabagh Dam with <b>tailored TOR </b>for
building the Left bank canal with 15,000 cusecs discharge for Punjab. Refer to KBD
Project report June 1991. WAPDA fixed wrong dam site at Kalabagh with tailored
design that was kept secret from the then Government of NWFP for its wrong, <b>restricted mid-level silt sluicing
hydraulic design and the left bank canal.</b> WAPDA did not allow building of another
dam in 37 years, when 4 dams could be built in 37 years. This negligence caused
devastation. WAPDA did that with the nation which the terrorists could not do.
Besides the above, Kachi canal planed by
WAPDA failed, SCARPs failed, NDP failed, Kalabagh made controversial by
selecting and fixing dam at wrong site with
wrong design and now <b>the 35 maf, unique
Katzarah Dam is made controversial by frightening the people of the area, the authorities
of Northern areas, and the Government of Pakistan. WAPDA hides merits and announces
demerits.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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In case of <b>Katzarah
Dam</b> discovered by me in1960-61 and repeatedly pointed out to WAPDA, WAPDA
only prepared its wrong and exaggerated
environmental aspect with a view to show that it is not feasible
environmentally. WAPDA<b> did not touch the
unique, one in four, technical benefits of 35maf storage that is 6 times of
KBD, controlling flood in the Indus, huge power generation and the unique
benefit of controlling silt from Skardu valley that would increase life span of
all downstream reservoirs.</b> Pakistan has no major reservoirs except
Katzarah, Basha and Guroh Dop. All other reservoirs are either very small or
problematic. There is no dam site on Kabul River, Jehlum River and Chenab
River. Indus is the only river and Katzarah is the only unique dam site on the
Indus that would also work as water shed management dam. Let WAPDA study my
articles on <b>Katzarah Dam, Guroh Dop Dam,
Mirkhani Dam and Fateh barrage</b> sent to all concerned. Please get copies
from IRSA or the Secretary Water and Power. Similarly get copies of the
remaining issues from IRSA or the Ministry.</div>
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It is the duty of WAPDA to investigate <b>the technical merits and demerits of each project, </b>specially the
Katzarah Dam, Fateh barrage, Guroh Dop Dam and Mirkhani Dam. It is for the
Government to make decision to build the project or not after judging its
merits and demerits and after obtaining views of foreign consultants. WAPDA has
no authority to reject a project on its own on exaggerated environment issue
and not touching a bit of its multipurpose unique merits. This proves WAPDA’s
psyche of negative tendency and obstinacy. It is surprising that during the
foundation ceremony of Basha, the unique Katzarah was not pointed to the Prime
Minister when he was in that very locality.</div>
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<b>The unique Katzarah Dam.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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It is a unique, <b>one
in four</b> project with almost indefinite life span. It creates 35 maf
storage, six times KBD, generates cheap hydropower, controls 100 per cent floods
in the Indus, and controls silt to increase life of all downstream reservoirs.
Basha life will increase from 80 years to 700 years. Tarbala remaining life
will increase by 40 to 45 years. Katzarah
will implement Water Accord by meeting its 22 maf storage requirement. It will replenish 6.5 maf replacement storage
lost. Why WAPDA has shut its eyes to these unique technical merits. Contrary to
this, WAPDA is frightening the local residents and is creating KBD type of
controversy. Please compare the well being of 18 crores population at the cost
of submergence of silt releasing Skardu valley. It’s the Government job to make
decision for building Katzarah and not WAPDA. My report on Katzarah <b>Dam </b>may be examined in details.</div>
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<b>Fateh Barrage<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Basically this short term project is substitute for the
controversial KBD to bring peace between
the fighting provinces. The KBD project consultants have also indicated <b>to provide unrestricted low-level silt
sluicing hydraulic structure</b> replacing the KBD dictated design. The
consultants meant high barrage. A 260 feet high dam suffers from silting
problem as reported by the KBD consultants. The consultants have also indicated
to reduce its height from 260 feet to 160 feet because of weak foundation. Fateh
barrage will cost $2 billion and completed in 2.5 years. <b>It will function as balancing reservoir for Tarbela reservoir when more
power is needed at Tarbela.</b> WAPDA estimated
power generation of Fateh barrage as 1366 MW. Actually it is much more.
It’s a run-of-river project, will create minimum to maximum power depending on
the river flow. KBD planned to irrigate<b>
Laki Marwat area </b>from the KBD lake through tunnel. Fateh Barrage will also cover
the same area and not Karak as mentioned by WAPDA. <b>Please refer to “Introducing Kalabagh Dam Project” Report June , 1991
issued by WAPDA.</b> WAPDA cheating may be noticed that in 10 days it has
counted the population of the area and the numbers of villages that will be
submerged. All this is jugglery of words to depict projects infeasible. The reservoir is confined to steep hill where
it is not possible for the villages to develop. This is only stated to shelve
the project initiated by me that hurts WAPDA ego—a strong mafia. </div>
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Moreover, the storage water will be released during the
period of low supplies. Every now and then freshets come that will be stored. How
can the reservoir be empty from October to May? Is the Indus River dry? Will this
be the situation with KBD? Hydrology of KBD and Fateh barrage is the same. Storage
water will properly be regulated. Investigation will reveal facts. WAPDA should
not form opinion on its whim. <b>I may
inform you that at elevation 880, the gross storage is 4.4 maf and even then the
reservoir will be short of Attock gorge.</b> <b>The gross storage of 4.4 maf created by Fateh barrage is equal to the
joint gross storage of Bunji, Dasu, Munda, Kurram Tangi Dams.</b> Is this not
something unique? We can easily create storage upto 4.4 maf instead of 3.4 maf. We can further go up to Elevation
900 for storing 6 maf or so. In that case the reservoir will reach Attock
Gorge. Investigation will reveal the quantity
of reasonable storage. The barrage involves no silting problem and backwater
flow as KBD. It will cost very low. WAPDA arguments are unreliable. Please get
opinion of foreign consultants. Refer to storage capacity curve prepared by
WAPDA that can help to decide the quantity of reasonable storage. </div>
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<b>Akhori Dam<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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WAPDA tries to prove that Dr Pieter Lieftnic report on
Akhori is wrong. I do not agree with WAPDA. Dr Lieftnick clearly says Gariala
site is preferred to Akhori. For this, he gives reasons. Let the Government
decide if it agrees with Dr Lieftnic or WAPDA. Dr Lieftnic has pointed out many
drawbacks which seem to be serious. WAPDA is habitual in planning wrong projects
such as Kachi Canal, SCARPs, NDP, KBD etc. all that miserably failed and
billions of rupees wasted. <b>Why, no
inquiry was made for these failures? We must know the causes of failure for
accountability and for getting wise.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Please refer to page 266 of Dr Pieter Lieftnic report Vol 1,
revealing that Tarbela height will be raised for diverting water.</div>
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“ For any such undertakings, <b>Tarbela would have to be built to elevation 1565 feet in order to
facilitate the transference of water across the divide”<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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“For 3.3 maf storage it is evident that an inordinate amount
of earth moving would be involved and that serious foundation problems would be
encountered. The Akhori project was deemed less favorable than Gariala. (page
267).</div>
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“To convey the Indus water from Tarbela to Gariala; a canal
some five miles long, with a capacity of 76000 cusecs, would be constructed
from the Siran arm of the Tarbela reservoir”</div>
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“ See page 292. Akhori is superseded by Gariala”.</div>
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<b>The channel to divert
water will remain dry for 9 months and 20 days.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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There is no surety that in 20 days the reservoir would be
filled to designed capacity.</div>
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In view of above muddy situation, a fair and sound opinion
about these projects can only be given by<b>
hiring known foreign consultants.</b> They may be asked to prepare only the
very preliminary feasibility reports of these four projects. I have found that
my articles/papers on Katzarah and other schemes have not been studied in
details. Therefore the two days discussion was all vague and flying. Correct conclusion
cannot be drawn.</div>
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It is pointed out that in IRSA Act, the Chairman WAPDA is
made ex-officio Member IRSA. This naturally means he should be technical man to
actively participate in all such vital technical discussions on projects
costing $ billions. On the completion of term of the present Chairman, the next
Chairman should be an experienced technical person. In my opinion, I consider
Riaz Ahmad Khan Technical Advisor to WAPDA as the most suitable man for the job.</div>
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Let Foreign Consultant give advice on these projects. They
should be asked to further improve these. I give only the project concept which
may further be improved. My figures are very rough and needs investigation and
confirmation. All technical details of
projects may be investigated by the consultants.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Storage problem in Indus Waters Treaty due
to silting<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">How much live storage under definitions is created by
India in 32 hydraulic structures under the Indus Waters Treaty<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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The Foreign Ministry of Pakistan may request the Government
of India to let us know the aggregate quantity of live storage created in maf on
the 32 hydraulic projects under the technical definition in Appendix-D, that
is, <b>Live storage water under Pondage,
Surcharge storage as floodwater storage, storage created under the run-of-river
including pondage storage and operating pool live storage.</b></div>
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The gross replacement storage of Tarbela and Mangla
Reservoirs built under the Indus Water Treaty, lost about 6.5 maf storage due
to rapid silting. The storage were created to compensate for the loss of
perennial water diverted by India from the canals in Eastern Punjab. The lost
storage needs replenishment otherwise the Treaty would become inefficacious.
India may be request under the Treaty to pay the cost for creating replacement
storage or contribute as before. </div>
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The above two basic issues that is, <b>silting of reservoirs and storage created under technical definitions</b>
escaped un-noticed so far, may please be clarified in a spirit of love and
mutual respect. Senator John Kerry report arouses sense of danger. </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Senator John Kerry Report to US senate, India
stored enough water to limit the supply of water to Pakistan<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Senator John Kerry report to US Senate created alarm. It
appears India has created enough water to harm Pakistan at critical moment in
the growing season. Furthermore, John Kerry has shown fear of water war to
congress. An excerpt from John Kerry report is reproduced.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“India has acquired the ability to store
enough water to limit the supply of water to Pakistan at critical moment in the
growing season”.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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The above statement is extremely political with far reaching
consequences. Every word is full of meanings that need political and technical
analysis. The Foreign Ministry and our legal experts may study this statement.
We want to know live storage created under the definition of terms in view of
John Kerry report and the various reports from media showing water war by using
water as weapon of mass destruction by creating famine like situation in
Pakistan..</div>
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<b>Engr Fateh ullah khan
Gandapur<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Former Chairman IRSA.
</b> Mobile 0300-5920641 June 9, 2012</div>
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<b>Copy to;<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Secretary Ministry of
Water and Power,</b> Islamabad for information. The situation is brought to his
notice for guidance and decision. Government decision is required to proceed
further. WAPDA head quarter may be shifted to Islamabad to work in close
coordination with IRSA and other professional organizations at Islamabad. </div>
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Chairman IRSA Islamabad for expressing Authority views to
the Government. Water regulation and its management and distribution fall under
the jurisdiction of IRSA. These schemes are part of water regulation. </div>
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Minister for Water and power for information. He may decide
to appoint foreign consultants to give pre-feasibility reports on at least four
projects. Moreover, WAPDA may be directed not to frighten the people of
Northern area. WAPDA is implanting controversy for Katzarah Dam. WAPDA did the
same for KBD.</div>
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Copy to; All Members of
the committee for information and offering written views</div>
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</div>Engr. Fateh Ullah Khan Gandapur 1925-2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/05168447883122388737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8742207062836094646.post-78159304584408708392012-06-01T03:32:00.002-07:002012-06-01T03:33:32.631-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Investigation of John Kerry alarming report
on India acquiring ability to store enough water at critical moment in the
growing season. perennial Replenishment of 6.5 maf replacement storage by India
lost to silting, and unaccounted storage created by India under technical
definitions.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Indus Waters Treaty.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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In the last meeting the Commissioner Indus Waters Treaty Pakistan
informed the committee that India has not created more live storage on our
rivers in 32 hydraulic structures, including dams. He said that water stored by
India is even less than what is allowed under the Treaty. It is however
surprising that all the Daily News papers like DAWN and the NEWS report that
India has created much more live storage than as allowed in the 32 hydraulic
structures including big dams. At the same time US Senator John Kerry alarming report
to US Senate on India acquiring ability to store enough water at critical
moment for Rabi and early Kharif indicates scarcity of water to be created by India
by holding enough water, as India can limit the supply of water to Pakistan.
How one should estimate the quantity of <b>“enough
water”</b> that India could with hold to affect Pakistan Rabi supplies that
range between 36 to 38 maf? Excerpt from John Kerry report is;</div>
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<b>“India has acquired
the ability to store enough water to limit the supply of water to Pakistan at
critical moment in the growing season”<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Senator John Kerry feared water war on this account. It
therefore indicates substantial storage. Present water availability situation
indicates that <b>there is more than 40 per
cent water shortage at the critical moment in this growing season.</b> This
creates doubt though one may blame climate change. IRSA has therefore called
Advisory Committee meeting on 5<sup>th</sup> June to examine the water situation.
John Kerry report indicates <b>creation of enough storage that may affect
Rabi and early Kharif.</b> There is therefore need to find true situation,</div>
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In order to know the truth, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs may
write to India <b>how much live storage India
created from all unaccountable hidden sources under technical definitions.</b> </div>
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I believe unaccountable hidden storage is created by India <b>in the guise of technical definitions, such
as, pondage, surcharge storage, operating pool and run-of-river even that
includes pond.</b> India may be requested to let us know the aggregate storage
on account of technical definitions. This is necessary to know as India does
not count storage in this form. The Treaty allows 2.85 maf of water storage to
India on our rivers whereas India has created large storage under these
definitions as part of design and not as violation of Treaty. India has
acquired the ability to store enough water to affect our Rabi and early Kharif
crops. The present water shortage has created doubt that India may have created
extra storage by adopting a technical trick. The height of dam and its hydraulic
design is fixed by India according to their discretion. The Government may investigate
to know what John Kerry means by <b>enough
water,</b> and how much more storage water, India created under the definitions
that are unaccounted.</div>
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The storage created under the technical definitions may
apply to multipurpose big storage dam <b>but
not to a project on run-of-river.</b> The 2.85 maf water storage allowed under
the Treaty should also include unaccounted storage created under the technical
definitions.</div>
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<b>The second issue</b>
is <b>Replacement storage</b> created under
the Treaty at Tarbela and Mangla have already <b>silted up by 6.5 maf.</b> This has rendered the Treaty<b> inefficacious.</b> <b>The lost replacement storage needs perennial Replenishment to revive
the Treaty.</b> Please examine this aspect in detail. The Foreign Ministry may take
up the case with India on the two issues.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">18 chronic Water issues to be seriously studied.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Besides the above, the 18 vital water issues raised by me
may be discussed point by point to reach joint and definite conclusions. Anyone
who differs may submit his views in writing. Verbal views have no record.</div>
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<b>Engr Fateh ullah
Khan. </b> Gandapur.</div>
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Former Chairman IRSA
Dated
31.5.2012</div>
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Mobile 0300-5920641 </div>
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Copy to all Members with reference to the Secretary Water
and Power letter No W1-4(20)/2011 dated May 31, 2012 for examination in the
light of John Kerry report that India built 32 hydraulic projects including
dams and the unknown aggregate storage created by India in these hydraulic
structures in the guise of technical terms or definitions like, pondage,
surcharge storage, operating pool and
run-of-river. </div>
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The repercussions created by 6.5 maf silting of Tarbela and
Mangla may also be discussed what next step is to be taken for their perennial
replenishment as we surrendered perennial flow to India</div>
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The allowable storage to be created by India under the
Treaty includes all other storage created by the running of hydraulic structures.</div>
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Copy to Secretary Water and Power for information.</div>
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Copt to Riaz Ahmad Khan Technical Advisor WAPDA House Lahore
for information. I request written views of Members may be recorded who have
different views for record. The meetings may continue till all 18 water issues
are discussed and conclusion arrived.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Warning<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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The country severely suffers from severe load shedding, this
destroyed economy. The country suffers from acute water shortage, rapid silting
of reservoirs, injurious salinity and sodicity, devastating floods, huge water
losses. It suffers from wrong planning and inefficiency that creates indefinite
controversies. KBD controversy, Kachi Canal shifting alignment, wrong project concepts
adopted in SCARPs, NDP, lack of sub-surface and sub-surface drainage, and no water
management. These water issues and others are to be solved. </div>
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</div>Engr. Fateh Ullah Khan Gandapur 1925-2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/05168447883122388737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8742207062836094646.post-34515612437327298252012-05-28T00:34:00.002-07:002012-05-28T00:34:41.916-07:00Water issues faced by Pakistan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Water issues faced by Pakistan<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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T<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">he
alarming water issues that require immediate solutions are, <b>Water shorter, hydro-power shortage,
Floods, rapid silting of reservoirs, preventing salinity in the Indus basin,
one million small tube wells indiscriminately pumping huge ‘saline drainage
effluent as groundwater’ for irrigation use that increase salinity, Water
wastage in the 150 years old, incompatible and obsolete canal irrigation system
requiring modernization, no drainage system to evacuate salinity, undertaking
Integrated Comprehensive Water Management to save water, Water shed Management
of Indus River to control Silting of reservoirs and selecting multipurpose dam
site. </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span><b>General
issues are;<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">1.<span style="font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">The Kalabagh Dam
hydraulic design and its dam site created political and technical
controversies. The KBD Consultants recommended <b>100 days low-level silt sluicing hydraulic design</b> whereas WAPDA,
under the <b>tailored TOR </b>insisted for<b> 50 days restricted mid-level sluicing
design. </b>Status quo prevailed on political controversy for 37 years as no
other dam was considered to be built though feasibility of Basha was ready in
1981, about 31 years ago. Basha Dam will take another 10 years. <b>The result for absence of dam is flood
havoc of 2010, crippling load shedding, water shortage and economic
destruction.</b> More floods are expected in the absence of <b>Katzarah Dam, Guroh Dop Dam and Raised
Fateh Barrage. </b>Kalabagh is not the dam site as its capacity-inflow ratio
indicates. There is best site for raised barrage only three miles upstream of
KBD—with a unique combination of low dam and barrage over it. I prepared unique
substitute for KBD in 1994. It is now resubmitted. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">2.<span style="font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Climate change is
a serious threat. It will affect rivers flow. First more river discharge and in
the second phase less discharge. The building of dams for both phases is a dire
necessary. Plan multipurpose dams to increase greenery. I recommend the 35 maf
Katzarah Dam and the 8.5 maf Guroh Dop Dams. <b>If Kazarah is not built, Pakistan will lose two-third of its storage potential,
waste floodwater and India would assume we do not need water. </b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">3.<span style="font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Has any Master
plan for flood control, hydropower generation and silt control projects
conceived? If so, name the feasible dams with storage capacity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">4.<span style="font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Rapid silting of
reservoirs is the greatest danger to the useful life of our limited reservoirs.
There are no dam sites on Kabul, Jehlum and Chenab Rivers. Tarbela and Mangla
gross storage silted up by 6.5 maf that affected IWT replacement storage, the
Water Accord and created shortage of water. It affects agriculture production. Had
any steps for Water shed management taken to reduce silt in the Indus? This is
necessary to increase life of Basha Dam and other on its downstream. The source
of silt in the Indus, according to the study conducted by Dr Attaullah,
appointed by the World Bank, is <b>the
highly erodible soil of Skardu valley.</b> Katzarah will submerge the silt
generating area in Skardu valley, stop silt flow by working as Water shed
Management Dam. Please seriously consider it. Katzarah is recommended by the Government of Sindh,
and the Parliamentary and Technical Committees appointed by the President. In
this respect, I do not agree with the views of WAPDA to ignore Katzarah on the grounds
that Baltic culture will be submerged. The unique technical merits of Katzarah
cannot be ignored. <b>Moreover, the
Government should make decision to build or not to build Katzarah and not WAPDA
after considering its unique and multipurpose technical merits.</b> WAPDA is
habitual in creating controversies from day one. Will WAPDA prefer that
Pakistan should go water scarce, its 18 crores population may suffer hunger,
but Baltic culture should not be displaced? Should 35 maf floodwater go waste,
by not building Katzarah? <b>Can two-third water storage potential be
sacrificed?</b> Which technical flaws
WAPDA has found in Katzarah? This shows WAPDA must jointly work with IRSA at
Islamabad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Which feasible dams would create 22 maf of storage? WAPDA should name the dams without
Katzarah.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Please note that
Akhori Dam is rejected by Dr Pieter Lieftnick as stated in his report Vol-I on
the grounds that it has weak foundation for a dam height of 250 feet, but now
WAPDA has raised its height to 420 feet, increasing storage capacity, involving
huge water diversion in short period, ignoring Dr Lieftnick’s recommendations. Akhori involves earthwork more than two times
of Tarbela Dam. Moreover, Dr Pieter Lieftnic says, to divert huge Indus water
in two months, the height of Tarbela Dam shall have to be raised by 15 feet. Is
that possible?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Water Accord
paras 2, 4, 6, 7, 14 (e) of <b>IRSA Act </b>is
not implemented for the past 20 years. On the contrary about 6.5 maf of gross
storage is lost due to rapid silting. Thus water shortage problem is not yet solved.
Let IRSA and WAPDA jointly work at Islamabad to solve issues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">IRSA is responsible
to implement Water Accord under para 13, but it is given no powers. IRSA should
be given powers. At the same time, WAPDA Head quarter may be shifted to
Islamabad for close coordination with IRSA to implement Water Accord and to replenish
lost storage to revive IWT and remove water shortage. This is why Chairman
WAPDA is made ex-officio Member IRSA. On the expiry of the present
non-professional Chairman WAPDA, the next Chairman should be experienced
irrigation engineer to actively participate and foresee these water issues and
help solving them. I recommend Riaz Ahmad Khan Advisor—the most suitable and
experienced water resource engineer who knows these problems. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Prepare a<b> Master plan to control floods, solve water
shortage, hydro-power shortage, rapid silting of reservoirs, salinity, and
water wastage.</b> It is direly essential to save huge wastage of water in the
canal system that is <b>150 year old,
incompatible and obsolete wasting about 45 to 50 maf of water.</b> Moreover,
new area is also to be brought under irrigation, preferably
Kachi plain, to meet food needs of the expanding population. It is IRSA,
WAPDA and PARC joint responsibility to avoid delay. I discovered Khajuri Kach
dam site in 1959, started work on it but WAPDA delayed its completion till
2012. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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canal irrigation system is without its integral component of <b>drainage system to control and remove
saline drainage effluent.</b> The canal irrigation system requires protection
against salinity, sodicity and water logging. Drainage is essential part of
irrigation, <b>but is missing.</b> Tile
drainage will protect land from getting infertile otherwise <b>water</b> will be of no use when Indus
basin goes saline waste. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">11.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Two mega drainage projects of SCARPs and NDP based on
wrong project concept of tube well to evacuate and control salinity failed one
after the other. Later on, these were abandoned. It appears nobody could
conceive the correct <b>technical
definitions of Drainage. Similar is the case of defining Irrigation, Leaching
and Water Management.</b> I can provide recognized technical definitions to
correctly conceive project concept if asked for. Projects should be prepared as
per their technical definitions, adopting correct project concept. Therefore,
it is vital that Food and Agriculture department, WAPDA, IRSA must jointly work
at Islamabad as water is basic input of agriculture. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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installed more than one million private small tube wells, indiscriminately
pumping about 50 maf of injurious saline <b>drainage
effluent </b>as groundwater for irrigation. This injurious drainage effluent
injects about 350 million tons of injurious salts each year into the soil
rendering it infertile. The process of salinity is going on gradually and
invisibly. The Indus basin is turning into saline waste. Over and above, the
one million tube wells could be consuming about 2000 MW of power. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">13.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Lacy canal system has become obsolete and highly
wasteful besides incompatible to meet intensive crop water requirements in time
and in proper dozes. Silting shows canal has failed. It needs modernization by
carrying out <b>integrated comprehensive
water management (ICWM) </b>as per its true definition. The canal system may
need redesigning as per Mannings Formula with silt carrying velocity. Let us
consider If 20 maf of water is saved by lining the <b>obsolete canal system,</b> then, will it be possible to use the saved
water to bring new area outside the command or the saved water used on the
existing crops? Moreover, the one
million miles of water courses be replaced by <b>pipe supply</b> to avoid seepage losses, evaporation losses and theft.
Use sprinkler and drip irrigation methods to save more water. Abandoned the
wasteful and obsolete <b>Warabandi.</b>
This will again save water with in the old command area. How and where to use the
saved water? All water losses are to be removed in view of para 14 ( e ) of the
Water Accord – a legal binding. Therefore, ICWM is necessary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Indian water threat is hanging over our heads as India
has built 32 water projects. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">14.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Salinity and sodicity is a great problem. This needs
control by maintaining water table and evacuating excessive salts out of the
area. <b>This requires surface and
sub-service tile drainage. </b>After leaching the soil, evacuating salinity,
reclaiming land, the return drainage effluent from the reclaimed soil would be
useable for irrigation on the downstream.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">15.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">All natural drains in the country are blocked by
encroachments in violation of the <b>Canal
and Drainage Act of 1857.</b> This needs revival. Sindh is a <b>drainage bowl</b> of the Indus basin. I
understand flood water of 2010 and rainwater 2011 is still standing in pockets
as natural drains are encroached. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">16.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">All Pakistan Grand Canal from Chashma barrage proposed
by me in 1961 was ignored. The gravity flow canal would have passed through
Sibi Town, irrigating the whole of Kachi plain, besides other provinces. Kachi
canal from Mithan Kot failed due to poor planning, and now is taken off from
Taunsa barrage still depriving large area of Baluchistan. Is Chashma site not a
great loss forever? Can we do something now?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">17.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">I understand there are huge losses (about 16 maf) due
to theft/unauthorized water use in Indus River from Chashma to Kotri.
Investigate these losses. Indus River needs channelization after building Basha
Dam and Katzarah Dam. It will reclaim about 3 to 3.5 million acres of fertile land
from its 14 miles wide waterway. Grow forest on recovered land.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">18.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Pakistan is not a member of the <b>UN Watercourses Convention.</b> Why?<b> </b>Get membership. It will
help solving water issues with disputing countries like India and next
Afghanistan. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Such
series of meetings for the first time, have initiated steps to solve chronic
water issues under the <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> chair of Riaz Ahmad Khan, technical advisor and
other experts from all professional organizations -- a right step to solve
chronic issues. I would also recommend
hiring foreign company, like HARZA for detailed preparation of projects. HARZA
worked in the Indus basin for 40 years as General Consultants to the Ministry
of Water, and WAPDA. Let they work on new projects with IRSA to implement Water
Accord and solve other water issues. Alternately, Chinese Consultants be
considered. The current discussion will prove more helpful if written views are
given by the participants <b>in case where
they disagree.</b> Money or no money, project concept for solving water issues
must be conceived and be ready. There should be<b> Constitutional provision to solve these issues in 5 year plans each
Government.</b> Political parties should include this in their mandate. This
implementation falls under <b>Article 38 of
the Constitution</b> that may further be amended. </span> </div>
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It is surprising that Army has banned the issue of <b>GTS maps from the Survey of Pakistan.</b>
Water Resource Engineers cannot plan without the GTS maps. The ban should be
removed from Engineers. They should be allowed to place indents on the Survey
of Pakistan as before. <b>I found GTS maps
as seven wonder of the world.</b> A gift left by the British. </div>
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<b>Engr. Fateh ullah
Khan Gandapur Dated May 26, 2012<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Mobile 0300-5920641.</div>
</div>Engr. Fateh Ullah Khan Gandapur 1925-2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/05168447883122388737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8742207062836094646.post-28909294270669541232012-05-10T04:40:00.002-07:002012-05-10T04:40:58.943-07:00Definitions of technical terms used in Dams and Reservoirs derived from Readers Digest Great Dictionary and other sources<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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body of water,</b> smaller than a lake, often of artificial construction.
Pondage has no storage and is therefore subjected to seasonal flow, like the run-of-river
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An additional discharge added to the usual discharge. An
overcharge specially unlawful. An additional or excessive discharge, an
overload, to fill beyond usual capacity, over fill. A discharge stored without
authorization.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Means the flow of the river as it is, <b>with no live storage</b> in generating power. Run-of-the-river has no
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The Indus Waters Treaty <b>has
fixed the limit of creating permissible storage for India at 4.19 maf from
Pakistani Rivers.</b> India cannot create more storage than 4.19 maf. This storage
can be used under any definitions in Appendix–D from ( C ) to ( g ). India has
misused definitions, coined by it with the purpose to cheat. Storage under any
definition is subject to the extent of 4.19 maf. For authoritative definitions,
refer to International established and recognized definitions as attached.
India has cheated Pakistan and we failed to point it out. No one watched the
working of Commissioner Water for his head quarter at Lahore. He should have
been close to the Ministry who remained unconcerned. This is why India built 32
mega dams and we remained unaware for 40 years.</div>
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We came to know from John Kerry report submitted to the
American Senate that India has built 32 mega dams and <b>has acquired the ability to store enough water to limit the supply of
water to Pakistan at critical moment in the growing season”. </b>India is
building 9 more dams in further violation of the Treaty. </div>
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On the basis of this information<b>, </b>one can estimate that India must have created<b> Gross Live Storage </b>of about 36 to38 maf in 32 mega dams. This will
create <b>Dead Storage</b> of about 12 maf
in addition. Pakistan’s Rabi Water requirement is about 36 to 38 maf. If this
supply of water is stopped by India, the Indus Basin Irrigation System will
turn non-perennial or seasonal. This means India has equipped itself for <b>water war </b>by using water as a<b> weapon of mass destruction to create
hunger, famine, death and genocide</b> of the people of Pakistan. This is why
John Kerry <b>fears nuclear conflict as
mentioned in his report to the Senate.</b> Pakistan should take up the case
with India, <b>on coined definitions,</b>
and on <b>the silting ot Tarbela and Mangla
by 6.5 maf rendering the IWT inefficacious. It requires Replenishment to keep
Treaty alive. </b>We must take the case to the <b>Security Council.</b> It is surprising <b>Pakistan has ignored signing the UN Watercourses Convention that can
help our case with India. Pakistan inaction is surprising. </b>Apply
immediately for Membership.</div>
</div>Engr. Fateh Ullah Khan Gandapur 1925-2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/05168447883122388737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8742207062836094646.post-34215888924200912002012-05-10T04:39:00.002-07:002012-05-10T04:39:49.624-07:00External and Internal water issues faced by Pakistan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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These issues require solutions under the Constitution to
avoid hunger, famine, death, and water war. </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">IWT inefficacious on many counts. These are<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Silting of replacement storage (Tarbela and Mangla) by about
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India used wrong definitions of Pondage, Full Pondage level,
Surcharge storage, operating pool and run-of-river. India created 38 maf of
Live Storage against the permissible of 4.19 maf illegally. There will be no
water for Rabi crop. This violation amounts to cheating.</div>
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India took perennial water and in return gave time-based
storage water and that too on our rivers. This is unjust an</div>
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Pakistan has no control on its rivers allocated to it. These
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Preamble and Article XI (3) guarantees water rights to each
party. This is violated.</div>
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The Treaty provides modification if water rights are
affected or some unseen problem arises.</div>
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India uses water as a weapon of hunger, famine, death and
genocide against Pakistan . Water is to be used as weapon of mass destruction. </div>
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India is planning to build 12 dams on Kabul River. This will
further reduce Rabi crop water requirement.</div>
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India plans to build 9 dams on the Indus, Jehlum and Chenab
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We have no reaction on <b>Senator
John Kerry report.</b> Pakistan should protest to India for violation of the
IWT.</div>
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Pakistan must report to the <b>Security Council</b> for serious violations as there is fear of nuclear
war as feared by John Kerry, John Briscoe and many other authorities.</div>
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It is surprising that Pakistan is not the Member of <b>UN Watercourses Convention</b></div>
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Whose duty is to watch, and correctly implement the Treaty.</div>
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The Kalabagh wrong planning, created controversy on two counts, and there
was statu quo for 37 years as no dam was allowed to be built. This resulted in <b>flood havoc of 2010 and the crippling load
shedding destroying economy.</b> This will continue till Katzarah, Guroh Dop,
Mirkhani and Fateh Barrage are built.</div>
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Climate change is a serious threat. No steps are taken to
mitigate it. The building of dams and the creation of more greenery would
mitigate it.</div>
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Has any flood control and power mitigation projects
conceived? If so, What is that.</div>
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Rapid silting of reservoir is the greatest danger. What
steps are taken to reduce silt, control it and increase the life of Basha Dam
and others on the Indus..</div>
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IRSA declared its storage water requirement as 22 maf. Which
dams would meet these water requirement. Name these with storage capacity.</div>
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Please note carefully that Akhori Dam is rejected by Dr
Pieter Lieftnick report Vol-I on the grounds that it has weak foundation for a
dam height of 250 feet and involves earthwork more than two times of Tarbela
Dam. Moreover, to divert Indus water, the height of Tarbela Dam shall have to
be raised by 15 feet. Is that possible?</div>
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Water Accord para 2, 4, 6, 7, 14 (e) are not implemented for
the past 20 years. On the con trary about 6.5 maf of gross storage is lost due
to rapid silting. Water Accord has become unoperative, as water shortage problem is not
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It is not possible to solve water shortage problem and
hydropower shortage. It is not possible to control super floods. It is not
possible to control silt problem. It is not possible to irrigated new area. It
is not possible to avoid all wastage as required in para 14 (e) of the Water
Accord unless Integrated Comprehensive Water Management of the total water
available is taken in hand.</div>
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According to record, the total water is 142 maf on the
average. Out of this 105 maf is diverted into the Indus Basin Canal irrigation
System designed in 1859. This system has become obsolete, incompatible, and
highly wasteful, wasting 50 per cent water that enters the canals. Another
about 35 maf of water is wasted as floodwater to sea on the average. The water
that enters the canals of about 105 maf, about 50% that is about 71 maf is wasted.
Again, India would divert about 38 maf in winter. The water to be available for
crops would be about 71-38= 33 maf. It is necessary that we should take care of
this horrible situation.</div>
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It is surprising that the world’s largest contiguous canal
irrigation system is without its integral component of drainage system. This has
resulted in salinity and sodicity besides water logging.This will render the
Indus Basin infertile. Then water will be of no use when land goes saline
waste. </div>
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Two mega drainage projects of SCARPs and NDP based on wrong tube
well concept to control salinity failed one after the other. Later on, WAPDA
abandoned the provision of drainage. It is surprising no body knows the correct
technical definitions of Drainage, Irrigation, Leaching and Water Management. I
can provide if asked for.</div>
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Farmers knowing that groundwater is available installed more
than one million private small tube wells, pumping about 50 maf of drainage
effluent as groundwater. This injects about 350 million tons of injurious salts
each year into the lands rendering it infertile. The process of salinity is
going on unknowingly and invisibly.</div>
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Lacy canal system has become obsolete and highly wasteful
besides incompatible to meet crop water requirements in time and in proper
dozes. It needs modernization by carrying our integrated comprehensive water
management as per its true definition. The canal system be redesigned as per
Mannings Formula and the one million miles of water courses be replaced by pipe
supply, using Sprinkler and Drip irrigation methods replacing the obsolete
Warabandi.</div>
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Salinity and sodicity is a great problem. This needs control
by maintaining water table and evacuating excessive salts out of the area.</div>
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All natural drains in the country are blocked by encroachments
in violation of the Canal and Drainage Act of 1857. This needs revival. Sindh
is a drainage bowl of the Indus basin and flood water of 2010 and rainwater 2011
is still standing as the major dams have been silted up. </div>
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All Pakistan Grand Canal from Chashma barrage proposed by me
in 1961 is ignored. This gravity flow canal will pass through Sibi Town,
irrigating all the four provinces, specially the Kachi plain. Kachi canal
failed once and now is taken off from Taunsa barrage.</div>
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It will be in the interest of development to shift the head
quarters of WAPDA and the Commissioner Water from Lahore to Islamabad as of
IRSA for better coordination.</div>
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Poor governance, political interference and controversies
have stopped water and power development since 1974. This resulted in crippling
load shedding, water shortage, and rapid Constitution. The Government that
fails to implement this programme should be disqualified for 10 years.</div>
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<b>Recommendation<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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The Government has taken initial step to solve these issues.
This is a colossal job for the survival of Pakistan. My experience shows that a
foreign company, like HARZA who worked in the Indus basin Pakistan for 40 years
be appointed as General Consultants to the Ministry of Water or IRSA to prepare
a preliminary report on these issues. The next, the Chinese Consultants be
considered. </div>
</div>Engr. Fateh Ullah Khan Gandapur 1925-2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/05168447883122388737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8742207062836094646.post-43374544385028108542012-04-16T08:14:00.002-07:002012-04-16T08:14:35.171-07:00External and internal Water issues of Pakistan and their Solutions.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>AR-SA</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 207.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 207.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Water insecurity means food insecurity aggravated by rapid population growth may result in water war.</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 207.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Fear of water war is growing as circumstances created by India are heading towards it. Senator John Kerry report to US Senate confirms it.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 207.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">God created Life of water. Man uses water for many purposes. The most important of all are drinking purposes and irrigated agriculture to produce food to sustain life.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 207.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pakistan has inherited the largest contiguous, barrage control, canal irrigation system in the world that is more than 150 years old. Before that there were inundation canals for crop growth. The network of barrage control, irrigation systems are fed by many important rivers like the mighty Indus River System, Jehlum River, Chenab River, Ravi, Sujlege and Bias Rivers. Moreover, Swat River, Punjkora River, Kunhar River, Chitral River, Daur River and Siren River and numerous hill torrents which are the tributaries of the Indus River System. God has gifted enough water and excellent land to Pakistan to produce food and hydropower. It is for us to manage it, protect it, and use water efficiently for our existence. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 207.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On partition of India, Ravi, Sutlege, and Bias were allocated to India under the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) and the Indus, Jehlum and Chenab to Pakistan. Unfortunately, the hydrological Region from where these six rivers originate lie in occupied Kashmir under the forcible occupation of India. As such, the control of these rivers is in the hands of India because of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">unjust partition of India.</b> India has started politics in water and uses water as a weapon to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">further</b> terrorist objectives. India has therefore acquired the capability to control water of Pakistan’s rivers namely, Chenab River, Jehlum River and the Indus River that originate in the Indian occupied Kashmir—a disputed territory. Pakistan faces great danger at the hands of India as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">it has built 32 large dams on these rivers creating dead storage of more than 10 maf </b>and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Live storage of about 38 maf in violation of the IWT that only allows 4.19 maf of water </b>to India. Besides this, India is building another <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">9 major dams</b> on these rivers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 207.0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">India uses water as a weapon of mass destruction </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 207.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">India has built 32 large dams in disputed territory on war footings with the purpose to stop water to Pakistan for its Rabi crop growing season. Pakistan Rabi crop growing water requirements presently is about <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">38-39 maf.</b> In fact, it is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">terrorism</b> using water as a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">weapon</b> so that Pakistan is unable to produce food for its rapidly growing population. As a result, Pakistan will face famine, hunger, death, economic devastation and genocide. India has acquired the capability to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">use water as a weapon of mass destruction</b> by causing famine and hunger. India has turned <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">water terrorist</b>—an international crime. It is our right to live on earth and share its natural resources for existence. Such aggressive capability acquired by India is confirmed by the report of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Senator John Kerry</b> submitted to the US Senate. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John Kerry fears water war between India and Pakistan.</b> An excerpt from his report is quoted;</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 207.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“India has acquired the ability to store enough water to limit the supply of water to Pakistan at critical moment in the growing season”.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 207.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">External insecurity of water.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 207.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">India’s activity shows environment is created by India to cause water and food insecurity leading to water war within the next about <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">15 years.</b> Pakistan would not like to see its people dying of hunger. India is compelling Pakistan for water war. Such war (nuclear war) will not only destroy India and Pakistan but the whole of sub-continent. This is not in the interest of the United States as foreseen by John Kerry as well as other nations of the world. This will adversely affect climate change and destroy environment on earth. It will affect trade, health of the people due to radiation, cause diseases, affect land and crop, animals and upset the working of the whole world. It is therefore vital that USA and other nations of the world intervene by making immediate decision on handing over occupied Kashmir to Pakistan and Kashmiri people so that the hydrologic region from where Pakistani rivers originate is peacefully handed over to Pakistan. There is dire need for conflict resolution for the sake of peace as God created earth for the sustenance of humankind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 207.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With evil intension, India manipulated the text of the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan so that it skillfully creates unlimited storage on Pakistani Rivers. For achieving this purpose India cheated Pakistan by providing<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> wrong technical definitions to the technical terms used in building storage dams. </b>For this refer to the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Appendix—D,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>paras ( c ) to ( g ) of the Treaty.</b> The cheating is cleverly camouflaged in the definitions. Power generation is allowed on run-of-the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>river, and run-of-the-river means,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> no live storage.</b> All other definitions are maneuvered. It is further evident from the fact of inequitable water replacement between the two countries that Pakistan gave <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">perennial water</b> to India whereas in return Pakistan got <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“time-based storage water”</b> on its own rivers for a limited period because of rapid silting of reservoirs. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">In about 37 years, Pakistan lost about 6.5 maf of storage capacity. This made the IWT inefficacious as the integral components of the Treaty are storage.</b> Pakistan should get perennial water in replacement of perennial water. Time-based storage water cannot be equated to the perennial water. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Water rights </b>of Pakistan cannot be usurped under the Treaty, and even otherwise. Water rights are protected in the Treaty.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 207.0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 207.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pakistan water rights guaranteed. </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 207.0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Preamble of the Treaty reveals that “the water rights and obligations of each in relation to the others concerning the use of these waters cannot be altered”. Pakistan water rights are further confirmed and guaranteed under article XI (3) stating that “the rights and obligations of each party under the Treaty shall remain unaffected by any provision contained in or anything arising out of the execution of any agreement”.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 207.0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">India violates Treaty on many counts rendering it inefficacious</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 207.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Moreover, under the Treaty, India is only allowed to create<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> 4.19 maf of storage</b> and not more than that. Contrary to this India created <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">about 38 maf of Live storage blatantly violating the IWT. </b>Moreover, India has planned to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">divert the course of Pakistani Rivers linking these with the Indian Rivers, </b>even diverting the floodwater flows in violation of the Treaty. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 207.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Solution to external water issues in avoiding water war. </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The peaceful solution to the issue for avoiding nuclear war is to hand over occupied Kashmir to Pakistan in replacement to Hydrabad Daccan, and Junagarh and Manavadar states. Nuclear war would kill one billion people on earth. This will severely heart US national security interest. This is why John Kerry informed the US senate of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the fear of nuclear war</b> between India and Pakistan in the near future, because, India has acquired the capability to store enough water to limit the supply of water to Pakistan at critical moment in the growing season. It is incumbent on all nations of the world, specially the US to save the earth of such a cataclysmic holocaust.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">fear of water war </b>has been confirmed by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cameron Harrington and Asim Ali</b> in their article titled <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Water Securitisation”</b> in Daily the News. Similar fear is expressed by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fiona Harvey</b> in the Daily Dawn dated 23.3.2012. Some excerpts are quoted from more articles as; “The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">UK Secretary for energy and climate change,</b> warned that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">water war could be a real prospect</b> in coming years. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ED Davey</b> told a London conference that growing pressure on food could lead to new sources of conflicts and worsening of existing conflicts. Beside the above, the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> US intelligence</b> said that areas including <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa </b>would face major challenges in coping with water problems that could hinder the ability to produce food and generate energy. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">It said water war is feared beyond 10 years.</b> The use of water as a weapon or to<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> further terrorist objectives </b>also will become more likely. The<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> climate change</b> will play a growing role with reduced rivers flow, after about 2040.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In view of many similar views on water war and in view of the developing circumstances created by Indian <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">water aggression,</b> I foresee the devastation of Pakistan in the near future, first<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> by floods like of 2010</b> for not building dams for the past 37+10 = 47 years, and then due to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">climate change in </b>the drastic reduction of river flow of about <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">45 to 50 per cent</b> before the year 2040. These are vital causes for shortage of water. The reduction of water by withholding of about <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">38 maf of water in 32 storage dams</b> by India, on Pakistani rivers in occupied Kashmir, will destroy the world’s largest canal irrigation system in the Indus basin. The perennial system will become non-perennial as it was before 1859.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Internal insecurity of water and food, due to climate change </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">At present the average annual flow in Pakistan is about <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">142 maf.</b> Out of this, the canal system capacity is to divert <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">105 maf</b> for irrigated agriculture. Out of 105 maf about <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">50 % of it is lost in the wasteful, incompatible and obsolete canal irrigation system</b> more than 150 years old. The coming events will reduce the annual flow of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">142 maf by nearly half. </b>The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">climate change is therefore <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>likely to reduce about 50 per cent of the rivers flow after 2040.</b> This means Pakistan will get half of 142 maf that is, about<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> 71 maf.</b> Out of this, reduce the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">38 maf of water to be retained by India due to its water aggression in 32 dams</b> in occupied Kashmir. This comes to 71-38 = 33 maf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The canal system will get about 33 maf against 142 maf.</b> Again about 50 per cent of 33 maf of water will be lost in the wasteful and obsolete canal irrigation system unless it is modernized to avoid wastage, and water is used by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">sprinkler and drip irrigation method</b> to irrigate more area. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Warabandi system is obsolete.</b> This should be replaced by providing water as per crop consumptive use. Agronomists must be associated with irrigation and drainage engineers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is in US interest to avoid nuclear war between India and Pakistan. The solution to all disputes and to avoid the fear of nuclear war lie in peacefully handing over occupied Kashmir to Pakistan. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">US resolution on Kashmir must be implemented. </b>Pakistan will never tolerate that its population die of hunger. It will prefer to die nuclear death than death by hunger. This is reality. Peace is in the interest of all nations of the world. Let wisdom prevail. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The external Water insecurity means food insecurity that would result in war.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pakistan faces two types of water insecurity. The one is external and the other internal. The external insecurity in water is from India as discussed above. Pakistan faces more than a dozen of internal water insecurities. I will only point out a few due to shortage of space. For full details including their solutions please refer to my website,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">fateuk.blogspot.com</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Issues causing Internal insecurity of water needs immediate solutions.</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Undertake implementation of Integrated Comprehensive<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Water Management</b> true to its <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">technical definition </b>to save water and produce food.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Modernization</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> of the wasteful, incompatible and obsolete canal irrigation system designed 150 years ago on empirical formula for regime flow conditions, no longer workable. The unscientific and wasteful Warabandi system for the supply of water to crops must be abandoned. Water to crops must be made available as per crop consumptive use as and when required in proper dozes. The wasteful use of water creates insecurity of water. It also affects food production.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">No dams built for the last 37+10 = 47 years to control devastating floods as of 2010. It created water and power shortage. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The unique multipurpose 35 maf Katzarah Dam, the 8.5 maf of Guroh Dop Dam and the unique Fateh Barrage at the end of the Indus River valley</b> ignored. Fateh Barrage, as a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">substitute for Kalabagh</b> will forever settled the Kalabagh controversy by its unique change in hydraulic design and structure, minor change of site, requiring<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> no land acquisition, no land compensation and no population displacement. </b>It will generate more power and store more water than KBD with no silting problem and indefinite life span. These three multipurpose projects would solve many issues. These will also solve insecurity of water, food, energy and silt. Katzarah will function as watershed management dam to help remove silting problem. Fateh Barrage would act as balancing reservoir and ensure the water right to Sindh and Baluchistan.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rapid silting of reservoirs due to absence of watershed management resulted in loss of 6.5 maf of storage. Selection of dam sites keeping in view the Capacity-inflow Ratio will serve as watershed management infrastructure. Silting of reservoir is a great water issue of serious nature. The Skardu valley is the source of silt, if Katzarah Dam is built almost all silt flow will stop. Katzarah Dam will serve as watershed management dam, increase the life of Basha Dam from 90 years to about 800 years, and of Tarbela by 40 years.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Absence of surface and sub-surface tile drainage the vital and integral component of irrigation system rendering millions of acres of fertile lands as saline, saline sodic and water logged. There is no means to control and remove salinity out of the area and keep salt and water balance in the soil. There is no control on water table. Injurious salts are accumulated in the soil in the form of drainage effluent as groundwater. It is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is pumped for irrigation use. The increasing salinity is creating insecurity of land, water and food. </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Tube wells based drainage project of SCARPs and drainage project of NDP both tried and failed wasting Rs 750 billion. The idea of providing Drainage System, which is the vital and integral component of Irrigation System, is abandoned by WAPDA as it faced project failed twice. This is a serious matter as the Indus basin will be rendered saline waste in about 45 years. The remedy lies in providing sub-surface tile drainage.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">About one million small tube wells are installed in the Indus basin, indiscriminately pumping the accumulated 45 to 50 maf of the saline groundwater drainage effluent for irrigation use. This injects about 350 million tons of injurious salts into the Indus basin each year. The Indus basin soil is getting more and more saline gradually and invisibly. There will be no use of water if land gets saline waste. This is an issue of insecurity of land, water and food. A very serious matter. Sub-surface tile drainage system should be provided to control and remove salinity out of the area and maintain salt and water balance.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Water getting short, no increase in canal irrigated area for the past 40 years, rapid growth of population, lands getting saline, rapid silting of reservoirs, flood havoc, power shortage, wastage of water, climate change, poor faulty planning, poor governance, corruption, lack of political will, and food needs increase, are all issues creating insecurity of water.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Wrong planning of dams, wrong planning of drainage system, wrong planning of Kachi canal, controversy on Kalabagh, no storage water and no power generation for the past 37+10=47 years has resulted in acute water shortage and crippling load shedding. The silting of reservoirs by 6.5 maf aggravated the problem creating insecurity of water, food and energy.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Kalabagh controversy continued for 37 years, maintaining status quo under the motto of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Kalabagh Dam or no dam”. </b>This resulted in water shortage, food shortage and energy shortage causing crippling load shedding.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Water Accord of 1991 and its vital paras 2, 4, 6, 14 (e) not yet implemented. This makes the Water Accord useless. It creates insecurity of water. IRSA needs 22 maf of storage dams to implement Water Accord.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">IWT inefficacious on four counts needs revision/modification for correction</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Indus Waters Treaty has become <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">inefficacious</b> due to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">silting of Replacement storage</b> Reservoirs at Tarbela and Mangla built as part of the IWT. It is rendered inoperative, as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">India blatantly violated it by creating 38 maf of live storage against the allowable of 4.19 maf.</b> It violated water rights of Pakistan and cheated Pakistan in the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">technical definitions of terms given in Appendix-D,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sub-section ( c ) to ( d ).</b> Moreover, the Treaty is unjust and inequitable as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">time-based storage water is equated to the perennial water.</b> All these lacunas rendered the Treaty useless as these have created great insecurity of water.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">India has planned to create another insecurity of water by<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> building 9 large dams on Kabul River</b> and on its tributaries.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Suggestions for Constitutional provision for good governance, rapid development, and nation building</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Learning lesson from the past shortcomings, poor governance and lack of responsibility by the successive Governments, resulted in flood devastation of 2010, and the unending crippling load shedding, terrorism due to poor administration of tribal area, unemployment problem, deteriorating<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>economy,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>high prices, poor Rupee value, law and order problem, irrelevant controversies on projects, and sticking to it, committing planning blunders, faulty execution of mega projects, sleeping over dozen of burning issues, not implementing Water Accord, not taking serious notice of Indian water aggression and John Kerry report on water, ignoring the unique Katzarah and Guroh Dop Dams, and Fateh Barrage since 1960, and 1994,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>there is now dire need to tackle these issues for which certain effective provisions in the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Constitution of Pakistan</b> in necessary to avoid its repetition. It is necessary to carryout <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">visible minimum essential development</b> from planning and investigation stage, to their final execution, regarding water, energy, food, employment, medical and education facilities by each ruling political party in their specified period of 5 years governance. Any Government and their Ministers, the bureaucracy under them, the professional organizations and all those concerned including head of state and head of provinces that fail to achieve the required development target during their stay in future should be disqualified for the next election. A strong disciplinary action should be taken against the heads of the departments and concerned bureaucracy for sleeping over such matters.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Article 39 of the Constitution may be strengthened. The mandate of all political parties should be on this basis. What the political parties plan to achieve, should be indicated in their mandates, so that voters know, and decide whom to vote.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pakistan has yet to irrigate another 20 million acres of barren lands to feed its population. </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><br />
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</div></div>Engr. Fateh Ullah Khan Gandapur 1925-2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/05168447883122388737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8742207062836094646.post-89167094932867058632012-03-22T04:20:00.000-07:002012-03-22T04:20:22.276-07:00Water War by India against Pakistan Unabated<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>AR-SA</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Indus Waters Treaty a farce and ineffective Document</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">India cheated Pakistan on Indus Waters Treaty by depriving it of its <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">perennial waters</b> irrigating East Punjab of Pakistan. In replacement to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">perennial water</b> diverted by India, Pakistan, in return got <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">storage water</b> in Tarbela Dam Reservoir on the Indus, and Mangla Dam Reservoir on Jehlum River, both are<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pakistan’s own rivers, allotted under the Treaty. Storage created on our rivers <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>cannot be part of the deal. This means, Pakistan got nothing in return of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">perennial water</b> diverted by India irrigating East Punjab of Pakistan. Pakistan is obviously hoodwinked. The Treaty is unequal, partial, and farce. The Treaty snatched <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">perennial water</b> without compensation and with no regards for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">water rights in view of article XI (3) and the preamble.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Moreover, it is a known fact that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">storage water</b> in reservoirs rapidly silt. Pakistan’s Tarbela and Mangla reservoirs both lost <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">6.5 maf</b> of storage capacity till today. This practically means, the so called IWT has ceased to function due to the loss of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">pivotal</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">storage water</b> created under the terms of conditions of the IWTon account of silting, and needs <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">recurring replenishment</b> by India in place of diverting <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">perennial water to safeguard Pakistan water rights.</b> This is necessary to keep the so called Treaty alive. At present, there exists no <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">storage water</b> as part of the so called Treaty to compensate Pakistan, as that is lost due to silting. Whereas, on the other hand the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">perennial water</b> taken over by India exists and India is using it on its lands uninterruptedly. It is obvious that temporary nature <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">storage water, or time-based storage water on our own rivers,</b> cannot be equated to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">all time perennial water.</b> The net result of the Treaty is that India deprived Pakistan of its <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">perennial waters </b>irrigating East Punjab for the last thousands of years and in return got nothing. Pakistan stands cheated all these years in the very presence of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">World Bank who is the guarantor </b>in implementing the Treaty in the light of article XI (3) that “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the rights and obligations of each party under this Treaty shall remain unaffected”.</b> Furthermore, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">article XII (3) provides that “The provisions of this Treaty may from time to time be modified by a duly ratified treaty concluded for that purpose between the two Governments”</b>. The Treaty therefore needs revision for equitability so that<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> water rights of each party remain unaffected</b>. The Treaty needs to restrict India to the allowable storage of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">4.19 maf</b> on Pakistan’s rivers. No area in Pakistan should be deprived of its water rights.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The second formidable cheating assault</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> on causing <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">water insecurity </b>is the building of dozens of dam by India on Pakistan Rivers namely the Indus, Jehlum and Chenab Rivers. This created fear of war between India and Pakistan as is hinted by<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> the US Senator John Kerry</b> informing the US Senate. John Kerry reported that India built 32 dams on Pakistani Rivers in Indian Occupied Territory that is disputed territory depriving Pakistan of its waters. John Kerry reveals India acquired the capability to stop complete Rabi season water supplies to Pakistan of about <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">38 maf of live storage </b>from Chenab and Jehlum Rivers during the critical crop growing period against the allowable storage to India of<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> 4.19 maf. </b>On the contrary, India stole by creating more than <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">38 maf </b>live storage belonging to Pakistan, thereby violating the Treaty. India thus ignored the IWT by terrible multiple violations. I would not call all this violation but terrible planned aggression. Thanks to John Kerry who revealed the facts whereas Pakistan was in deep slumber.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In a third attack,</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> India has planned to build another <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">9 dams on Chenab River</b> allocated to Pakistan. One of the mega projects of 9 dams on Pakistan’s Chenab River is<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Gypsa Dam</b> equivalent to<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Munda Dam on Swat River </b>in Pakistan.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 1.0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Besides all the three violations as above, the most serious water aggression planned by India is the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">diversion of Pakistani Chenab River, connecting it with Indian Beas River.</b> The Indian objective is to stop even the flood flows of Chenab River to Pakistan. India knows that occupied Kashmir is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">disputed territory</b> even then water war against Pakistan is waged from there. India cannot divert occupied Kashmir’s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">water and power resources </b>to its territory. Pakistan and Kashmiri claim occupied Kashmir. Both are deprived of their natural resources by India. The case of Kashmir is lying with the United Nations unsettled for the past 63 years. Delay in justice is inhuman, as that supports the aggressor. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 1.0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Kashmir is Pakistan’s integral hydrological part as all its rivers originate from Kashmir which India controls. This is all time potential danger. After <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">silting of Tarbela and Mangla Reservoirs losing 6.5 maf of storage water, </b>Pakistan has the right that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the original perennial supplies to East Punjab of Pakistan be immediately restored to it as was in 1947 and before.</b> Pakistan should claim this rihjt now. Moreover, Kashmir be handed over to Pakistan peacefully as Pakistan food and economy depends on it, otherwise <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">war is the fate</b> irrespective of its horrible consequences. John Kerry rightly feared nuclear war and as such reported to the US Senate. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The fourth aggression</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> in the form of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">technical trick</b> played by India and unnoticed by all involved in the IWT is in wrongly defining the established and recognized meanings of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">definitions</b> given in the Treaty in its Appendix-D from (c) to (g). The definitions of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pondage, Full pondage level, Surcharge storage, Operating pool and run-of-river</b> are wrong and ridiculous as these wrong definitions empowered India to create unlimited storage useping the water rights of Pakistan. These wrong definitions are not acceptable as these are concocted and camouflaged in the form of Appendix with the purpose of cheating. Only internationally recognized definitions are accepted. Let the Government of Pakistan officially request the American Society of Civil Engineers (Irrigation Division) to give the recognized meanings of all these terms as used in the Appendix-D of the Treaty.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The water problem is created due to wrong partition of India as Pakistan’s irrigated agriculture cannot survive when it is deprived of its hydrological unit of Kashmir the source of origin of all rivers where most of their catchment lie and that is under the control of India. This issue needs to be set right <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">to avert future nuclear horrible war endangering the earth.</b> This is already foreseen by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John Kerry </b>and reported to the US Senate that Asia is the spot for nuclear war because of water aggression by India. This is the case where all nations of the world must be worried and try to solve the issue of Kashmir. This is more serious than the climate change for the whole world to worry about. Pakistan with a population of 180 million will not tolerate sever <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">insecurity of water and food when it is snatched from it.</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">India is using water as a weapon of mass destruction—inhuman act</b>. India is bent upon to permanently damage the world’s largest contiguous canal irrigation system in the Indus basin—<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the food basket of Pakistan. </b>Indus Basin Canal irrigation system will<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> turn non-perennial when rivers flows in winter are stopped by India. </b>This would create food shortage, hunger, famine, deaths and genocide and the world too would lose agriculture produce from the Indus basin Canal irrigation system. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">India usurped <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">12700 MW of hydropower</b> of occupied Kashmir and about <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">38 maf of live storage</b> belonging to Pakistan. Kashmir is deprived of its natural resources of water and power by India and Pakistan its water rights. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In spite of all above, the Government of Pakistan is unconcerned as none of these issues are raised at International level. Even the alarming warning in Senator John Kerry report is ignored. It appears India got <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">immunity</b> to violate the IWT and create unlimited storage on Pakistani Rivers in occupied Kashmir. India is fighting a water war in the guise of Treaty to render the Indus Basin Irrigation System un-operative.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The above inability shows the Government has failed to protect its people from the silent water war waged by India for the last about 40 years in building dozens of dams on Pakistani rivers and depriving Pakistan of its <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">water rights</b> that it uses for the last thousands of years.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In such unique aggression when the Government has become inert and silent, then the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Supreme Court</b> of Pakistan may take suo moto action to recue 180 million people of Pakistan from water and food insecurity, death and devastation. The Supreme Court may move the International court of Justice and the Security Council and human rights organizations. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Supreme Court of India directed the Government of India to inter link all Indian Rivers so that water resource is equally shared by all provinces. Similarly our Supreme Court may take action to save us from hunger, famine, death, devastation and genocide by safeguarding our water rights as admitted in the Treaty. India took benefit of our ignorance and silence for the last 40 years therefore it committed terrible water aggression, ignoring our basic <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">water rights.</b> Treaty or no Treaty <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">water rights</b> cannot be usurped. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Copy to;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Registrar Supreme Court of Pakistan. Please bring it to the notice of the Chief Justice of Pakistan for help.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Secretary Water and Power, Ministry if Water and Power, Islamabad. The whole responsibility lies on the Secretary</span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">The Federal Minister of Water and Power, Islamabad. Your are kept ignorant but that is no excuse.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Prime Minister House Islamabad. The same.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">The President of Pakistan, President House Islamabad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The same.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Deputy Chairman Planning Commission, secretariat, Islamabad. Your active role would help. Planning is your field.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Chairman IRSA, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad. Water shortage will be your problem, so plan for it</span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Minister for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabani Khar with the request to take up the matter with the Government of India</span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Minister for Food and Agriculture. Water is vital input of Agriculture so worry about it and fight for it</span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">As an engineer, It is my duty to inform all concerned to save the 180 million people of Pakistan from hunger, famine, death, and devastation. This is a wake up call for defense against the Indian water aggression though very late. </span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div></div>Engr. Fateh Ullah Khan Gandapur 1925-2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/05168447883122388737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8742207062836094646.post-44658660086112925542012-03-02T02:43:00.000-08:002012-03-02T02:43:46.692-08:00Woes of Water, Power, Floods, Silting, Salinity and solutions<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Master Plan to fight water woes in brief<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Pakistan is in deep crises due to shortage of water and hydropower for lack of multipurpose dams that also control floods and silting of reservoirs. Pakistan is dangerously exposed to future devastating floods any times and many times like of 2010 and crippling load shedding for no dams built for the last 47 years (37+10) after Tarbela. The existing Reservoirs have rapidly silted by 6.5 maf due to silting for lack of watershed management, and due to wrong planning of storage dams ignoring their Capacity Inflow ratio for long life. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Saline lands have been wrongly handled by ill-conceived SCARPs and NDP, both failed and abandoned. Irrigation system is without drainage, and there is no means to evacuate injurious salts.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Kalabagh Dam became controversial politically. Its hydraulic design of <b>50 days restricted mid-level sluicing</b> is technically controversial between KBD Consultants and WAPDA. WAPDA insisted for <b>“KBD or no dam” policy</b> for 37 years. This resulted in devastating floods of 2010 and crippling load shedding that destroyed economy. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">India has built 32 dams and has acquired ability to stop 38 maf of our Rabi water requirements as reported by John Kerry. We have not reacted. India has silently started <b>water war using water as weapon of mass destruction.</b> India is also planning 12 dams on Kabul River to dry our Rabi supplies. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Solutions to crises are; Build <b>unique 35 maf </b>multipurpose <b>Katzarah Dam to store 6 times the storage of Basha Dam,</b> generate <b>10,000 MW hydropower,</b> control super <b>floods </b>in the Indus, and work as watershed management dam <b>to prevent silt in the Indus water and increase life of Basha from 85 years to 800 years.</b> World Bank study shows Skardu valley is the source of silt. Katzarah if built, will irrigate about 3 to 4 million acres of the Kachi Plain in Baluchistan from Chashma Barrage.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Build the <b>8.5 maf</b> multipurpose<b> Guroh Dop Dam</b> on Punjkora River to store <b>3 maf</b> of its runoff. <b>Divert 4 maf of floodwater in Guroh Dop Reservoir from Chitral River,</b> through 22 Km tunnel by building <b>Mikhani Dam </b>and power generation of <b>1400 MW.</b> This will control floods in Kabul River. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Control salinity in the Indus basin and reclaim lands by building surface and sub-surface tile drainage to evacuate injurious salts out of the area and maintain salt and water balance.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">To mitigate Indian aggression, carry out <b>Integrated Comprehensive Water Management </b>of the 165 years old canal irrigation system that wastes about 45 maf to 50 maf of water, is incompatible with crop water requirements and is obsolete. The Canal System may be modernized to save water.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">I further suggest unique substitute for Kalabagh Dam by building <b>100 feet low dam-cum-60 feet barrage over it. The site is</b> three miles upstream of KBD into the Indus valley, leaving Soan River apart. This will store 3.4 maf of water repeatedly to be filled as the flow at this site is 93 maf. The aggregate storage could be between 6 maf to 9 maf. The project would serve as balancing Reservoir to produce more power at Tarbela and store released water at the Dam-cum-barrage Reservoir. It will produce 2000 to 6000 MW of hydropower on run-of-river with power houses located on both River Banks. The Royalty would be shared between NWFP and Punjab. The project will have indefinite life span. The beauty is that it requires no land acquisition, no land compensation and no population displacement. Refer to my Website <b>fatehuk.blogspot.com</b> for details. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Copy to,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Chairman Indus River System Authority (IRSA) Government of Pakistan, Islamabad<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> As the issues relate to water and the monitoring and distribution of water as per IRSA Act, therefore IRSA is concerned to regulate Indus River flows by damming the river as required by Water Accord paras 2, 4, 6, 7, and avoid all wastage from the 165 years old, wasteful and obsolete Canal Irrigation System as per para 14(e) of the Water Accord. IRSA has already demanded 22 maf of water. Under the circumstances, IRSA may write to the Government explaining the chronic issues of water shortage, flood havoc, and rapid silting of reservoirs, all relating to water in view of the Water Accord beside other affiliated issues like salinity of land. If lands are saline water will be of no use. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Secretary, Water and Power </b><b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Government of Pakistan, Islamabad<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">He is requested to find whose responsibility is to suggest which dam to built first and why and on what merits? The concerned organizations are WAPDA, IRSA, Planning Division, Ministry of Water and Power, four provincial irrigation departments and Agriculture department. Kalabagh Dam and Akhori Dam are bad examples as these are rejected by Project consultants of KBD and Dr Pieter Lieftnick respectively. IRSA needs 22 maf of water and India has acquired the ability to store 38 maf of live storage that is also the full requirement of our Rabi crop. Let the Ministry ask these departments which dams would meet these huge storage requirements. It is pointed out that Bunji and Dassu are power dams on the Indus. You may be know there is no dam site on Kabul River, Jehlum River and Chenab River in Pakistan. How would we face this critical situation? It’s a matter of great concern and the Prime Minister be informed of the critical situation.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Minister for Water and Power, Government of Pakistan<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Deputy Chairman Planning Commission Government of Pakistan<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Prime Minister of Pakistan, Prime Minister House Islamabad<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">The President of Pakistan, President House Islamabad. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">The above are the problems with outlines for solutions explained in brief. I feel no attention would be paid to set them right as the lethargic tendency and poor governance show.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Please note that Floods like 2010 can ravage again and again during the Climate change any time and many time.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">India has prepared itself for water war in silence. As a result Rabi water supplies would completely cut off, and famine would appear, people would die of hunger then bloody revolution would suddenly take place. Please wake up from slumber even now though late.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">God bless Pakistan. God will not bestow miracle, so let us work hard honestly and correctly to overcome water shortage, power shortage, flood havoc, rapid silting of reservoirs and remove and control salinity.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">If rapid salinity in soil is not evacuated and controlled, then water would be of no use. Healthy lands and proper water are the two basic inputs of irrigated agriculture. These provide food as well as jobs besides economic prosperity.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>Engr. Fateh Ullah Khan Gandapur 1925-2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/05168447883122388737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8742207062836094646.post-87612671901369433702012-02-14T00:37:00.000-08:002012-02-14T00:37:21.138-08:00Baluchistan with lesser irrigation facilities due to its out of the way geographic location has great potential to irrigate the 5 million acres of gigantic Kachi plain if water is arranged<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>AR-SA</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Presently a small part of the Kachi plain in Baluchistan is indirectly irrigated from the Indus water from Guddu barrage with its ‘control head works’ in Sindh. This is because of its geographic location out of the way from the Indus river water. Moreover, from Guddu, it only commands the tail of the Kachi plain. It is observed that Baluchistan generally complaints that Sindh uses Baluchistan water and it suffer on this account.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The most suitable site from where there seems the possibility to take out a canal to irrigate the entire Kachi plain by gravity flow is the Chashma barrage site in Dera Ismail Khan discovered by me in 1960-61 and reported in April 1962 to all concerned. The proposed canal for Kachi plain was named as<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> All Pakistan Grand Canal.</b> The canal is capable to irrigate all the four provinces. Chashma Right Bank Canal (CRBC) in DIKhan augmented <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the old Paharpur canal. CRBC irrigated Dera Ismail Khan in NWFP and Dera Ghazi Khan in Punjab. My proposal to built <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">All Pakistan Grand Canal </b>included the irrigation of three or four provinces and the whole of Kachi plain but WAPDA ignored this or remained ignorant of it. It only implemented the CRBC project initiated by the Government of NWFP.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Baluchistan has only one source of water and that is the Indus River to irrigate Kachi plain, and Chashma barrage site is the highest point to irrigate the large part of the Kachi plain by gravity flow. Baluchistan has no other mega water source of its own to irrigate lands in Kachi. Because of the geography of Baluchistan, Jehlum River and Chenab River waters cannot irrigate the vast Kachi plain.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">WAPDA planned to irrigate Kachi plain in Baluchistan at random from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mithon Kot</b> and wrongly<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>aligned the canal as a long feeder canal and then abandoned it. Perhaps it was not<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>commanding reasonable area of the lower Kachi plain. At the same time its cost was raised from Rs 30 billion to 70 billion because of ill planning.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">After failure at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mithon Kot</b>, WAPDA shifted the Kachi canal ‘take out point’ to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Taunsa barrage </b>for better command to irrigate. The project is still going on and one is not sure what will happen to this and that how much area will it irrigate?</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Baluchistan has no direct source of irrigation from the Indus River due to its geographical location. Moreover, it is located away from all the mega rivers of Pakistan. This is the reason irrigation development of Baluchistan was not tried during the British rule and the same followed by Pakistan. The small share of water of Baluchistan in the Indus water is also stolen by Sindh at Guddu barrage. Baluchistan always lodges complaints but no one listen. </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I prepared a Master Plan after investigations for about two years for the optimum development of water and power resources of Pakistan in April, 1962, identifying 12 mega dams that included the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">unique 35 maf Katzarah Dam and the 8.5 maf Guroh Dop Dam on Panjkora River.</b> While consulting the GTS maps, I came across the vast Kachi plain of Baluchistan. It came to my mind to build Chashma barrage on the Indus before the construction of the Chashma Right Bank Canal (CRBC) on the Indus, just upstream of the old Chashma head works for Paharpur canal, and take off <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">All Pakistan Grand Canal</b> to irrigate lands in all the four provinces by gravity flow. A canal from Chashma would cover almost the entire Kachi plain of Baluchistan starting from the town of Sibi at an elevation of 440 feet. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">All Pakistan Grand Canal </b>was planned in combination with<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Katzarah Dam</b> to store floodwater going waste to sea. The pond level at Chashma barrage is between elevation 642 to 646. The highest level of Kachi plan at Sibi is at elevation 440. There is a fall of more than 200 feet.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The Kachi canal would serve as a<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> mini Indus basin irrigation system</b> on the right bank of the Indus River roughly irrigating an area of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">5 million acres. </b>On full development, Baluchistan can accrue income from agriculture of about<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> $12 billion each year.</b> The canal will have a first class road in the shape of a Highway or Motorway running near the bank of canal. This road would be connecting Karachi with Islamabad and Peshawar as an alternate route. A new area would be opened in Baluchistan for its rapid development and prosperity. </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The Kachi canal irrigation developing the gigantic Kachi plain will serve as a very strong bond uniting Pakistan and would be like the spinal cord of the country. The prosperity of the people of Baluchistan will have big leap and the backlog in development will turn into jumping prosperity. This prosperity will lead to explore the wealth of minerals in Baluchistan. The Gwadar port would serve as the gateway to prosperity. I am sure within the next 30 to 40 years <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Baluchistan would lead the other three provinces of Pakistan in development if the above proposal is implemented. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Baluchistan and NWFP both have not fully used their water share allocated to them in the Water Accord due to lack of finances, lack of technically sound projects and many other hurdles. Baluchistan unused share of water be used in the development of Kachi plain and if some more water is needed for Kachi plain, the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Water Accord </b>may be adjusted accordingly <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by raising <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Baluchistan share of 12 per cent in flood supplies in para 4 of the Water Accord</b> after the building of Katzarah Dam. </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">35 maf Katzarah Dam </b>will store floodwater that goes waste to sea each year. There will then be no water problem to irrigate the Kachi plain. Moreover, about <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">40 maf of wastage of water</b> would be saved from the 165 years old, wasteful, incompatible<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and obsolete<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>canal irrigation system if <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Integrated Comprehensive Water Management</b> is carried out. The canal system needs modernization. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Water Accord para 14 (e) requires to avoid all wastage.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There will then be no water shortage problem as all wastage will be avoided. </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Due to the sideward geographic location of Baluchistan and for being away from the sources of river water, irrigation development in Baluchistan did not take place. Therefore the total water allocation of Baluchistan for Kharif is 2.85 maf and for Rabi it is 1.02 maf. The total is 3.87 maf. According to the need the allocation of water to Baluchistan can be increased from floodwater supplies on building Basha Dam and Katzarah Dam to irrigate the entire Kachi plain.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Moreover, it is reported that about 30 maf of water is stolen from the Indus River between the reach Chashma to Guddu and from Guddu to Kotri as tube wells are installed near the bank of the Indus. These unauthorized tube wells are steeling river water with in Punjab and Sindh. This creates shortage of water. IRSA should arrange to stop this practice or corresponding quantity of water should be deducted from the share of Punjab and Sindh.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">All conspiracies and foreign interference in Baluchistan will stop when the people of Baluchistan<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>are engaged in the development activities specially the agricultural and mineral development of Baluchistan. Poverty, depravation, and idleness give rise to all crimes and are the killer means to destroy the inner potential and capability of an individual. Therefore constructive activities are needed so that the mind is engaged and poverty and idleness are removed. It also develops sense of patriotism.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">In view of the above, let the Government of Pakistan promise to build Kachi canal in combination with Katzarah Dam and create Authority for mineral development of Baluchistan. An ordinance may be promulgated to implement this as early as possible. I would also request the Politicians of Baluchistan to lay emphasis on development and demand specific schemes like the above projects as it will create the source of living within the province. The politicians of Baluchistan and the Government of Baluchistan should raise this demand in National Assembly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">As far as rapid development and money is concerned, I would suggest that Muslim countries, especially the Saudi Arabia, Government of Pakistan and the people of Baluchistan may form a cooperative society. Let the three agree that Saudi Arabia and the Government of Pakistan will bear the finances of the project, the people of Baluchistan will provide land and security facilities for a period of say about <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>40 years. After the completion of the projects, the profit that will accrue, 40 per cent of that will be given to Saudi Arabia, 20 percent to the Government of Pakistan and 40 percent to the people of Baluchistan for a fixed period. All jobs will be given to the people of Baluchistan. </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>Copy to:</div><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"></span> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">The Chief Secretary Government of Baluchistan, Quetta</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Additional Chief Secretary Pand D, Government of Baluchistan Quetta</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Secretary Irrigation Government of Quetta</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Speaker, Provincial Assembly Quetta</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Secretary Water and Power Government of Pakistan Islamabad</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Minister for Water and Power Government of Pakistan Islamabad</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Chairman, IRSA Government of Pakistan, Islamabad. </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Development of Baluchistan is of vital necessity. Therefore agricultural and mineral development may be given top priority. The building of Katzarah Dam and Guroh Dop Dam are of dire necessity to make more floodwater available under para 4 of Water Accord to the provinces. Let IRSA monitor and distribute the floodwater of the Indus River for optimum use of the provinces.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">It is pointed out that no new irrigation scheme in any province can be built unless floodwater is stored as per para 4 and 6 of the Water Accord.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div></div>Engr. Fateh Ullah Khan Gandapur 1925-2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/05168447883122388737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8742207062836094646.post-52812111368066177722012-02-12T05:38:00.000-08:002012-02-12T05:38:20.959-08:00India gave wrong meanings to the technical definitions of terms used in the IWT to create unlimited storage on rivers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Preamble of Indus Waters Treaty.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In spite of wrong meanings and interpretations given to the technical definitions of terms used in the Indus Waters Treaty, the Preamble of the Treaty provides that “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the water rights and obligations of each in relation to the other concerning the use of these waters cannot be altered”.</b> Unfortunately, the technical definitions mentioned in Annexture D, from ( c ) to ( g ) are totally altered and are not used in the sense provided in the terms used internationally in dams and reservoirs engineering. The wrong definitions given in the IWT to these terms convey different meanings than the recognized technical meanings of terms. This is a trick <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">to create unrestricted storage on all rivers because of wrong definitions. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pakistan foolishly remained ignorant for not pointing out wrong meanings given to the technical terms in Annexure D. </b>Wrong definitions makes the Treaty unjust, inequitable and partial. It requires correction.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Wrong meanings given to the terms are;<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Pondage, Full Pondage Level, Surcharge Storage, Operating Pool and Run-of the-river.</b> The fact is that in this Treaty we are only concerned with the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gross</b> Storage, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dead</b> Storage, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Live</b> Storage and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">run-of-the-river </b>in building dams. Whatever India has done to cheat Pakistan, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">water rights of Pakistan cannot be usurped</b> and India cannot create more than<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> 4.19 maf of storage water.</b> India has so far created about <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">48 maf</b> of Gross Storage and is creating more by building another 9 dams. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pakistan water rights are further confirmed and guaranteed under Article XI (3) that, the rights and obligations of each party under the Treaty shall remain unaffected by any provision contained in or anything arising out of the execution of any agreement. </span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Under these provisions, the wrong definitions of terms can be ignored as water rights of Pakistan cannot be changed or reduced and storage more than <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">4.19 maf </b>cannot be created. Wrong definitions make the Treaty unjust and ineffective. What India has done is aggression on the water rights of Pakistan. By creating huge illegal storage, in the name of Pondage, Pondage Level, Surcharge, operating Pool and run-of-the-river India cheated Pakistan. Also, it further complicated Kashmir issue. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the context of the above two basic and clear provisions on water rights, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the water rights of Pakistan </b>in no form can be usurped and diverted by India simply by twisting definitions giving them wrong meanings to illegally create extra storage. The definitions in Annexure D of the IWT of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pondage, Full Pondage level, the Surcharge Storage, Operating Pool, and run-of-river plant</b> are all totally changed, wrong, and made ridiculous to cheat the other party of its water rights. The jugglery of words cannot allow India to store more water than the allowable storage of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">4.19 maf.</b> The definitions given in Annexture D are no where used in the sense as used in the Agreement of the Treaty. These wrong definitions need replacement by correct definitions limiting the terms to only four, namely <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gross Storage, Dead Storage, Live Storage and run-of-the-river. </b>The other terms used in the Treaty are for bad intention. The definitions of terms given in Annexure D are discussed below highlighting their wrong meanings to create unlimited storage. It will be seen how cleverly facts are distorted, violating the Treaty. All this is planned to stop Rabi supplies to Pakistan to destroy economically and subject its people to famine. Creating this situation is creating cause for war. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pondage. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Annexture D ( c ). </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Please see the definition of Pondage in the dictionary<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. </b>Pondage means <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">small quantity of standing water where generally buffalos bathe. </b>It does not mean <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Live Storage of any quantity</b> as adopted in the definition of Pondage in the Treaty.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>Thus<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>Pondage never means as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Live storage of only sufficient magnitude to meet fluctuations in the discharge of the turbines arising from variations in the daily and weekly loads of plant.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The definition in the Treaty means, that India can create any amount of storage to run the turbines to their designed <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">installed power generation capability.</b> On run-of-the-river flow, installed power generation is not possible unless huge storage is created for it. The Treaty does not allow this Live Storage under the definition of run-of-the-river. Pondage does not mean run-of-the river. Run-of-the-river does not mean creating any amount of storage. It only means a hydro-electric plant that develops power without <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Live Storage. Pondage is therefore no live storage.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Full Pondage Level. Annexture D (d). </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is again a concocted definition like of Pondage coined for the Treaty to create more storage. In this, Treaty Full Pondage Level means <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">maximum storage created by each dam as per its design with no restrictions on design to create any storage.</b> The wrong definitions given in the Treaty for Pondage and Pondage Level means no restriction on the design to create any amount of storage in millions of acres feet (maf).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">These definitions clearly amount to befooling, cheating and depriving the water rights of the other party and befooling all those who participated in the Treaty.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Full Pondage Level</b> in the Treaty means any amount of storage created without restrictions. This definition is not only wrong but illegal and ridiculous. It shows bad intention. These definitions allow creating any amount of storage on our Western Rivers allocated to Pakistan. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">India is only allowed to create<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> 4.19 maf of water in the Treaty</b> and no more. Therefore these wrong definitions are not applicable. This is how India cheated Pakistan by depriving its water rights by building <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">32 dams,</b> illegally created <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">48 maf of Gross storage,</b> that includes <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">10 maf of Dead Storage and 38 maf of Live storage,</b> against the allowable storage of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">4.19 maf </b>of water. This dangerous ability acquired by India will totally block Rabi flows to Pakistan during the critical period of growing. This will render the Indus Basin Canal Irrigation System <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">seasonal or non-perennial creating famine conditions.</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">India diverted <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">perennial water</b> that irrigated Punjab of Pakistan</span>. In replacement to this, India contributed on a small scale to build Tarbela Dam and Mangla Dam on Pakistani rivers to create <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">time-based storage</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">with limited life span.</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Time-limited storage flow</b> of water cannot be equated to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">perennial flow </b>or all time flow. This is yet another point of<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> inequality showing injustice that needs rectification.</b> Pakistan got no equivalent perennial water, whereas, it gave perennial water to India. Surprisingly, the huge <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Live storage</b> created by India is through the wrong definitions given the name of<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> pondage, pondage level, Surcharge Storage, Operating Pool and run-of-the-river. </b>Standing water in small quantity in Pond and Pool is wrongly considered as unrestricted Live Storage.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Annexture D (e) Surcharge Storage.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The Treaty defines <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Surcharge Storage</b> as uncontrollable Storage occupying space above the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Full Pondage Level.</b> This actually means <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">floodwater.</b> The use of word <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">floodwater</b> is avoided. Pondage Level is ridiculously termed as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Live Storage</b> as per design with no restrictions. Surcharge Storage is given the meanings as more storage than the Live designed Storage. It means <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Floodwater and is given the name of Surcharge Storage.</b> Under this definition India can store even the floodwater. This is all trickery of words, and wrong meanings given to all definitions with the intention to cheat Pakistan who trusted India. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wrong meanings given to all these technical definitions require the Treaty to be<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> modified under Article XII (3)</b> to set right all these flaws to make it just and equitable. These definitions are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">over lapping each other </b>and are confusing. This Treaty is only concerned with terms of<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Gross Storage, Dead Storage, Live Storage and run-of-the-river.</b> It is a matter of grief that no engineer in Pakistan could catch this hidden trick. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Annexture D (f) Operating Pool. </b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Operating Pool</b> in the Treaty is defined as the storage created between the Dead Storage Level and Full Pondage Level. This means any amount of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Live Storage provided in the design</b> of the dam according to the will of India with no restrictions.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">It is clear that all definitions provided in this Treaty are wrong, distorted and changed than their original meanings. These definitions provide free hand to India to create any storage, to do anything it likes in any manner it likes. This Treaty gives India complete control over the flow of our rivers, this is why India <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>has created colossal storage capacity. This is the reason that India built 32 mega dams creating 48 maf of Gross Storage and about 38 maf of Live Storage in occupied Kashmir with the intention to hold Rabi supplies of about <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">38 maf</b> to Pakistan during the growing season. India will use water as an unusual <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">weapon of silent war</b> to destroy Pakistan. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Annexture D (g) Run-of-river Plant.</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">It is only the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">run-of-the-River</b> whose definition is correctly defined but attached unusual conditions to its definition, making it clearly unfair and ridiculous. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The run-of-the-river is defined in the Treaty as no use of Live Storage</b> involved in generating power. But in the Treaty, this definition is twisted with bad intention<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> by adding ”except Pondage and surcharge storage. Why? </b>This destroyed the sense and the meaning of run-of-the-river in the definition. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">These definitions coined by India enable India to create any amount of storage on a river without restrictions.</b> The meaning of the run-of-river is distorted and changed. The allowable power generation in the Treaty is based on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">run-of-the-river</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">with no Live Storage </b>in support but India created 38 maf of Live Storage so far. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Under these self coined definitions by India, there are no restrictions on India to build any number of dams creating any amount of storage without any restrictions. This is against the spirit of the Treaty and its Preamble. Unjust and inequitable Treaty can be the potential source of war. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">This direly needs to modify the Treaty as provided in its Article XII (3)</b> to make it just and equitable and to maintain long time peace in the region. India is not allowed under the Treaty to create more storage than 4.19 maf under any conditions. Refer to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Article XI (3).</b> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">India gains Political objectives by using Treaty to destroy Pakistan economically</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pakistan trusted India and signed the Treaty with good intention, aiming peace and good relations with India. So far Pakistan did not realize to scrutinize the definitions given in the Treaty <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">trusting India</b> that it will not create more storage than the allowable of<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> 4.19 maf.</b> But surprisingly it came across the report made by the US Senator <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John Kerry</b> to the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations fearing <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">water war between India and Pakistan.</b> The title of the report is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Avoiding water wars: Water Scarcity…”.</b> The excerpt from the report is quoted as:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“that India has acquired the ability to store enough water to limit the supply of water to Pakistan at critical moment in the growing season”.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John Kerry </span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">fears as India has created conditions for water war by stopping <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">38 maf of Pakistan’s Live storage</b> of water from its own rivers, the Indus, the Jehlum and the Chenab because India is in illegal and forceful occupation of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">occupied Kashmir</b> the source of water of Pakistani rivers originating in occupied Kashmir. India will <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">use water as a weapon of war </b>in the near future and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">as a lethal weapon of mass destruction.</b> This will create hunger, famine, and death as water will be used as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">a weapon for genocide against Pakistan.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">How to ensure water rights to Pakistan for its existence and avoid water war (nuclear war).</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is suggested that Pakistan should get <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">perennial water in place of perennial water</b> diverted by India. This will only be possible that India release that water which irrigated Punjab of Pakistan in 1947. Change of boundary on partition cannot usurp water rights. This will be the easiest solution. Alternatively, India should build storage dams on perennial basis for Pakistan for getting perennial supplies all the time.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The best solution is that India should vacate occupied Kashmir the source of water to Pakistan</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Treaty should be <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">modified</b> with correct definitions as internationally used removing all drawbacks. The trust of Pakistan should not be betrayed by India as it can lead to nuclear war in the near future that must be avoided at all cost.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pakistan will never surrender its water rights for the survival of its people.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Therefore Pakistan should immediately take up the water issue with India at Ministers level to resolve the matter. Kashmir is already under dispute for the last 62 years. The water issue and the IWT would make the Kashmir issue more serious and compel Pakistan against its wishes for water war for its survival in self defense as correctly predicted and reported by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John Kerry to the US Senate. </b>The best and permanent solution and a step to achieve perpetual peace between India and Pakistan would be to hand over Kashmir to Kashmiri that is the origin and the source of Pakistani rivers. At the same time, partition that had sown the seed of war by handing over our hydrological region of Kashmir to India should return Kashmir to Pakistan for everlasting peace in the region. Peace is priceless as it is the foundation of rapid prosperity. Perpetual fear of war be avoided.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I suggest the matter of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">rapid silting of reservoirs </b>and of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">definitions in Annexture D</b> of the Treaty besides <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">creating 48 maf of gross storage against the allowable storage of 4.19 maf be taken up with India</b> bringing these points to their notice and if need be approach the Court of arbitration on these points. A competent lawyer must get the assistance of competent water resource engineer. The issues created due to unjust Treaty may also be brought it to the notice of the Security Council as India wants to subjugate Pakistan by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">snatching its bread</b> that can cause genocide. A step to avoid nuclear war lie in solving the root cause of the problems. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">Copy to</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">Secretary<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>water and Power Government of Pakistan Islamabad</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">Minister for Water and Power Government of Pakistan Islamabad</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">Minister for Foreign Affairs, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">Kamal Majid ullah Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on water <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cabinet Division,</b> Islamabad</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">Secretary, Pakistan Engineering Congress, PEC Building (4<sup>th</sup> Floor) 97-A/D1, Liberty Market,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Gulberg III, LAHORE. </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">It is brought to the notice of the Secretary <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Engineering Congress</b> that the matter of the Indus Waters Treaty has become extremely serious as India has created 48 maf of gross storage depriving Pakistan of its Rabi water supplies of about 38 maf of water. This is because of distorting the definitions of the technical terms given in Annexure –D of the Treaty. The definitions are tactfully altered by India <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">to create unlimited storage on Pakistani rivers against the allowable of 4.19 maf.</b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As reported by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Senator John Kerry to the US Senate,</b> India has acquired the ability to completely stop Rabi supplies to Pakistan. This will turn the Canal Irrigation System seasonal or non-perennial. I send this paper to the Secretary Pakistan Engineering Congress-the large body of very competent and highly experienced engineers to examine the definitions given in Annexture D of the Indus Waters Treaty 1960. </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">I want the opinion of the Congress expertise on this paper. If they agree with my views I would then request the Congress to advise the Government that the definitions are wrong and Pakistan is cheated by India. </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">I thank <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Engr Akhtar Abbas Khawaja, the Secretary of the PEC </b>who kindly acknowledged my previous paper in letter No.PEC/P-4/2012 January 30, 2012 titled <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Indus Basin Water Security in jeopardy and send it for evaluation.</b></div></div>Engr. Fateh Ullah Khan Gandapur 1925-2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/05168447883122388737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8742207062836094646.post-19154812616579396182012-01-23T21:38:00.000-08:002012-01-23T21:38:57.109-08:00No watch on implementation of Indus Waters Treaty<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Warning: <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The most dangerous issue of violation of IWT by India developing into Memo-gate like situation<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">No watch on implementation of Indus Waters Treaty<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">This is in continuation of the News item dated January 2, 2012 <b>‘Jamat Ali Shah escapes to Canada’</b> after it was established that Jamat Ali Shah former Indus Waters Commissioner has helped and facilitated India in building Nimoo Bazgo , and Chuttak hydropowers projects on Pakistan’s Indus River besides building dams and creating more Live storage than allowed on the Jehlum and Chenab Rivers inflicting huge damage to the country’s water resources for agriculture to produce food. Jamat Ali Shah remained silent about the Nimoo Bazgo and Chuttak Projects. It is surprising Jamat Ali Shah never paid visit during 2002 to 2009 to these projects even after their completion. This was in spite of the fact that Military Intelligence (Mi) informed the Government of these projects in June 2005 and the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) on July 15, 2005. All this is unfortunate for no response from Pakistan. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The Daily News gets the credit to expose treason-like act. A Dam built even on run-of-the-river is a multipurpose hydraulic structure. It creates gross storage that includes dead storage and live storage besides producing hydropower. India built dozens of dams to store Live storage, during the past 35 years without observations from Pakistan. This free hand encouraged India to violate the Indus Waters Treaty.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Jamat Ali Shah never revealed the exact number of dams built in occupied Kashmir to know live storage. Therefore, no one knew how much Gross. Storage, Dead storage and live storage was created by each of the dam on Indus River, Jehlum River and Chenab River. Storage is the pivotal point governing the water rights under the IWT. This vital issue is absolutely ignored by Mr Jamat Ali Shah as India created about <b>48 maf</b> of Gross storage by building dozens of dams out of which <b>38 maf</b> is live storage. This means Jamat Ali Shah helped India to wage water war by holding our live storage, inflicting huge damage to the Indus basin Canal Irrigation System to create food insecurity, using water as a silent weapon of mass destruction, creating hunger, famine, death, genocide and economic collapse of Pakistan. I have written six papers on this matter informing the Government. Two were addressed to Jamat Ali Shah who got annoyed when I pointed out that India is building dam and tunnel on River Indus near Kargil.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Thanks to <b>Senator John Kerry</b> who revealed in a report to the US Government that India built <b>32 dams</b> acquiring ability to store enough water in these dams and limit the supply of water during the Rabi crop to Pakistan. An excerpt from John Kerry report is quoted;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“that India has acquired the ability to store enough water to limit the supply of water to Pakistan at critical moment in the growing season”.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">This is a very dangerous revelation by The News paper. John Kerry report foresees the possibility of fear of water war. This statement will help Pakistan if it goes to the court for violation of the Treaty. Pakistan’s water requirement during the critical moment of Rabi growing period is about 38 maf. It is estimated that in 32 dams, India has created about 48 maf of gross storage that includes about 10 maf of dead storage and about 38 maf of live storage. As such, India has acquired the <b>destructive ability to restrict 38 maf of water</b> requirement of Pakistan. This restrictive ability will turn the Indus basin Canal Irrigation System <b>non-perennial or seasonal</b>. Therefore, there will be no water for growing Rabi crops. This means all concerned organizations did not bother to watch, and arrange to implement the IWT. India should have been restricted in time to store only the allowable <b>4.19 maf of live storage and no more. India on the contrary created 48 maf of Gross storage or about 38 maf Live storage.</b> The Government failed to know this vital basic fact and did not go to the Court for protecting Pakistan’s water rights. Thanks to John Kerry for revealing information. The Government should go to the court now to restrict India to the allowable live storage of 4.19 maf. The Government should also go to the Security Council of the UN, as stoppage of water would create <b>famine and large scale death due to hunger </b>leading to genocide. A Memo-like scandal appears to develop.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Another serious <b>issue is of rapid silting of reservoirs,</b> that is a very pivotal component of IWT of basic importance. Silting of Reservoirs is ignored and unwatched by Water Commissioner and all others though it is the spinal cord of the IWT. The issue of silting turned the Treaty <b>inefficacious</b> as the Treaty is based on the creation of <b>Replacement storage for transfer of water to east Punjab</b>. The Replacement supplies of about <b>6.5 maf, </b>stored in Tarbela Reservoir, Mangla Reservoir and Chashma barrage have already silted up. The <b>storage</b> have limited life, and were created under the Treaty to compensate Pakistan as India diverted Pakistan’s<b> perennial waters of the three Eastern Rivers</b> that irrigated East Punjab of Pakistan. Now the lost storage is to be <b>Replenished</b> by India by new storage for its continuation, otherwise the Eastern Rivers supplies <b>be restored to Pakistan</b> by India as was on 1947. Pakistan’s water rights cannot be denied.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The Commissioner Water ignored the <b>two serious vital issues </b>which renders the IWT <b>ineffective.</b> When the Treaty becomes ineffective, the old water rights to the area are restored. Treaty or no Treaty water rights to Pakistan cannot be denied or usurped under any law. The two water issues may immediately be taken to the court to avoid dangerous situation. The principle of justice is that <b>Storage water cannot be equated to the perennial water.</b> For equating water availability and water rights, new storage will have to be created as its <b>Replenishment.</b> A limited thing cannot be equated to the unlimited thing. The Treaty safeguards water rights of Pakistan and India equally.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The NEWs item dated January 2, 2012 further reveals that Mr Riaz Ahmad Khan then Advisor to the Ministry of Water and Power is also involved in helping India clinch the Carbon credit from the UN for these projects. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I have sent about two dozens of papers to the Ministry of Water and Power highlighting all water issues of great consequences. What to speak of action on these papers, these are not even acknowledged by the Ministry. They have never read my website on Water Issues. This inertness shows governance failure of extreme nature and absence of patriotism. This is the reason for grabbing Pakistan’s water by India and for the crippling Load Shedding, flood havoc of 2010, rain destruction of 2011, water shortage and food insecurity. The above two issues and WAPDA’s blunders for not building Katzarah Dam, Guroh Dop Dam and not undertaking Integrated Comprehensive Water Management will destroy irrigated agriculture in Pakistan.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Copy to: <b>Kamal Majidullah Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Water</b> to approach the Court on these issues.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> The one is of <b>violation of the IWT by India,</b> usurping Pakistan’s share of Water on its Three Western Rivers by creating<b> 38 maf of Live storage in 32 dams</b> in occupied Kashmir against the allowable storage of<b> 4.19 maf of water,</b> depriving Pakistan of its centuries established water rights of growing Rabi crops from Eastern Rivers. The Rabi water requirement of Pakistan is about <b>38 maf. </b>The issue of not watching the rightful implementation of the IWT smells of high treason and may in the future become more serious than the <b>Memo-gate scandal,</b> involving many institutions and many high-ups.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The other issue is to approach the court from turning the IWT <b>inefficacious due to silting,</b> and directing India to <b>replenish</b> the lost storage of <b>6.5 maf due to silting</b> of Tarbela, Mangla and Chashma barrage by building <b>Katzarah Dam on the Indus to honour IWT.</b> Alternately, Canal water supply from the Three Eastern Rivers be <b>restored to East Punjab</b> of Pakistan as was on 1947. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">In the very near future, IRSA will face water shortage and the provinces create hue and cry. Therefore IRSA be directed how it is going to meet this situation when IRSA is already short of water, and has demanded <b>22 maf </b>of water to implement Water Accord. On the contrary, IRSA would face <b>38 maf</b> of water shortage during Rabi s India would hold this water. </div><div class="MsoNormal"> <b>Chairman IRSA</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The Authority is requested to call a meeting. All the five members may examine this paper in the light of IRSA Act, <b>as according to IRSA Act Preamble, handling water issues and its regulation and distribution of water resources of the Indus River System</b> come under this Authority. The IRSA will face the after effects of India illegally holding Pakistan’s waters, thereby creating terrible water shortage, upsetting the very Water Accord implementation. It is therefore necessary to plan to counter act this conspiracy by adopting water saving measures through Integrated Comprehensive Water Management. A written brief of views by each member may be submitted for discussion.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Secretary Water and Power. </b>Water issues<b> </b>have reached the yield point. Therefore the issue may be taken seriously in your capacity as an administrative secretary, and guide how to get out of it.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Minister Water and Power. </b>This bomb shell is far more serious than load shedding and the flood of 2010. Please do not further ignore taking action otherwise this would trigger bloody revolution. People have already come on roads. A situation similar to Memo-gate like is developing. <b><o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div></div>Engr. Fateh Ullah Khan Gandapur 1925-2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/05168447883122388737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8742207062836094646.post-35197716252859891262012-01-23T21:37:00.000-08:002012-01-23T21:37:00.313-08:00Indus Basin Water Security in jeopardy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The concept of water security in each irrigation system in each country is different. Water scarcity is the first sign to pay attention to water security. Security of water can be handled to avoid wastage in the context of how one manages water, how one uses it, and how efficient is the irrigation system. The use of water through the process of Integrated Comprehensive Water Management contributes to water saving and a measure to achieve water security. Moreover, if the source of water and the catchment area extents to more than one country, then water rights are to be protected through Treaties to ensure water security. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Efficient canal irrigation system to contribute to water security <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Indus Basin Canal Irrigation system (IBCIS) consisting of thousands miles network of canals and a million miles of watercourses was originated and designed by the British Irrigation Engineers in 1847, <b>165 years ago. </b>It is the largest contiguous canal irrigation system in the world providing irrigation facilities to a command area of about 38 million acres. The colossal canal water infrastructure serves as the spinal cord of the country’s economy. The rigid canal design in the Indus Basin was based on empirical formula for conditions then prevailing. The canal was designed for a fixed discharge, for an assumed agricultural data, with Kharif Rabi ratio of 1:2, with the purpose to equate the fixed canal discharge, with the Rabi and Kharif crops water requirements.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Engineer Lacy, an Executive Engineer developed the design for alluvial soils in the Indus Basin with the concept that the earthen canal should neither silt nor scour its bed, but to stay in regime. With the development of agriculture and increased cropping intensity and cropping pattern consuming more water, requires a fluctuating discharge, the regime conditions in the canal are therefore not possible to maintain, as canals silt, and its annual silt clearance has become ritual. Deposited silt in the canal bed reduces the canal capacity to carry water. This creates shortage of water. All these deficiencies indicate canal modernization to save water wastage. This created <b>incompatibility </b>between the fixed canal discharge, and the crop water requirements. This causes either shortage of water or excess water. Both conditions are undesirable. It therefore needs modernization to meet present day crop water requirements and save about 45 to 50 maf of water wastage. This would contribute to water security besides meeting crop water requirements in time and in proper dozes. For building modern canal irrigation system, its design and operation is the collective job of irrigation and drainage engineers, agronomists, soil scientists, agriculture expert and managers and policy makers.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Wrong partition of the Country created water insecurity in Pakistan <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is very unfortunate that after the partition of India, the <b>water security</b> in the Indus Basin canal irrigation system has been subjected to great <b>jeopardy and insecurity</b> because of threat from India who built dozens of dams and stored large quantity of water, as the source of water for Pakistan from the six rivers, namely the Indus, Jehlum, Chenab, Ravi, Sutlege and Bias originate from the disputed Indian occupied Kashmir and waters of all rivers is controlled by India. The water scarcity is therefore created due to <b>wrong partition of India</b> as Kashmir-- the source of water to Pakistan was given to India, ignoring the hydrological unit of Pakistani rivers.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Resolving conflict through Indus Waters Treaty<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> In the Indus Waters Treaty signed in 1960, the three Western Rivers, the Indus, Jehlum and Chenab were allocated to Pakistan and the three Eastern Rivers Ravi, Sutlege and Bias irrigating area of East Punjab in Pakistan went to India. Till 1947, East Punjab of Pakistan was irrigated from the three Eastern Rivers and on partition of India the water supply to East Pakistan was diverted by India.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> To compensate the deprived area of East Punjab of Pakistan of its <b>perennial water</b> rights, the IWT provided <b>two ‘time-based’ storage water reservoirs</b> by building Tarbela Dam on the Indus, and Mangla Dam on Jehlum River. These <b>‘time-based’</b> reservoirs at Tarbela and Mangla are rapidly silted up by <b>6.5 maf.</b> There is no <b>replenishment</b> for the lost storage created under the IWT. This loss of storage turned the IWT <b>inefficacious.</b> This has created great <b>insecurity of water i</b>n the Indus Basin of Pakistan. The fact is that <b>‘time-based’ storage water cannot be equated to the perennial water.</b> This unequal distribution has created conflict as Pakistan water is usurped by the upper riparian--India. The IWT binds Pakistan and India not to affect each other water rights. The silting of reservoirs by <b>6.5 maf</b> has adversely affected Pakistan’s water rights as it created shortage of water and water insecurity for unjust sharing of water. This deprivation renders the IWT <b>ineffective</b> as Eastern Punjab of Pakistan is deprived of its <b>perennial water rights that it enjoyed for centuries. It therefore needs Replenishment of storage water or restoring water supply by India to East Punjab of Pakistan from Eastern Rivers as was till 1947-- the date of partition of India.</b> In this case, it is India that created insecurity of water. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“The Treaty under section XI (3) provides <b>“The rights and obligations of each party under this Treaty shall remain unaffected </b>by any provisions contained in by anything arising out of the execution of, …” The Preamble states “The two Governments agree to the satisfactory utilization of the waters of the Indus system of rivers <b>recognizing the need, the rights and obligations of each other…”</b> These provisions may be examined by legal experts for safeguarding Pakistan’s water rights.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">India created insecurity of water in spite of Treaty by violating it <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Besides the shortage of water due to silting that already created water insecurity,<b> India has built 32 dams</b> on the plea to generate hydropower on run-of-the-rivers on Pakistan’s Western Rivers namely the Indus, Jehlum and Chenab Rivers in violation of the IWT creating about <b>40 maf </b>of gross storage and about <b>30 maf</b> live storage against the <b>permissible storage of</b> <b>4.19 maf.</b> This has created another severe water insecurity by India by building dams and acquiring the ability to stop Rabi water supplies amounting to about<b> 36 to 38 maf of water.</b> Pakistan has not observed this serious and major risk and threat of water insecurity because of poor watch on IWT implementation. Surprisingly, this fact is observed and revealed in <b>Senator John Kerry’s report to the US Senate.</b> The report seems to be advance information of likely <b>water war</b> and a warning to avoid it. The excerpt from John Kerry report is:-<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“that India has acquired the ability to store enough water to limit the supply of water to Pakistan at critical moment in the growing season”.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">More insecurity of water to Pakistan is in the pipe line as India is building another<b> 9 dams </b>on the Indus that will further reduce water supply to Pakistan. This needs to be prevented. India plans to convert the<b> 165 years old</b> established Indus Basin Canal Irrigation System that feeds 180 million people as <b>non-perennial or seasonal</b> by stopping winter supplies for growing Rabi crops. The water insecurity created by India is destructive as Pakistan would not be able to get water to grow Rabi crops to feed its people. This would cause food shortage, hunger, famine, deaths that may lead to <b>water war</b> as India is using <b>water as a weapon of mass destruction. US Senator John Kerry</b> rightly fears water war.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Over and above, India has further planned to build <b>12 dams</b> on Kabul River in Afghanistan. The Indian objective is to convert the Indus Basin canal Irrigation System in Pakistan into desolate and deserted waste. The building of dozens of dams by India blocking the winter flow is the major risk and threat to <b>water security</b> in Pakistan. Pakistan Government should raise this issue in the security council of UN, as usurping huge quantity of water by India would lead to genocide or war.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pakistan faces twofold insecurity of water<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Water scarcity is overlooked and unfunded in Pakistan. It can fuel dangerous tensions and can destroy regional stability. The looming water shortage affects agriculture and hydropower generation and climate instability all over the world. Pakistan is under the grip of scarcity of water as no <b>Replacement dam is built in 37 years.</b> It has already lost 6.5 maf of storage water in Tarbela and Mangla Resevoirs due to rapid silting. It has not built dams to generate hydropower and is suffering from severe load shedding and is subjected to great insecurity of water as India has created huge storage in occupied Kashmir blocking Rabi supplies to Pakistan.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pakistan therefore faces <b>external water insecurity. This is besides the internal insecurity of water</b> due to unscientific use of water in its traditional irrigation system and due to floodwater wastage. <b>External</b> water insecurity is from India who acquired <b>the capability to divert more than 30 maf of Pakistan’s perennial water as live water storage.</b> India violated the IWT, the water rights of the lower riparian in Pakistan besides violating the International laws and human rights to use its natural resources of water to survive.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The <b>internal water insecurity</b> is due to lack of finances, poor management, lack of water policy, lack of planning water resources on scientific lines, tendency to stick to traditional waste practices, wastage of about 45 to 50 maf of surface canal water in the 165 years old and obsolete canal irrigation system, wastage of water during floods that varies from 5 maf to 100 maf, the <b>incompatibility </b>of flow in the out dated canal with crop water requirements due to rapid change in agricultural development and the shift to grow higher cropping intensity and cropping pattern for optimum benefit.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The use of saline drainage effluent through tube wells in violation of Canal and Drainage Act<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Pakistan is foolishly using injurious saline drainage effluent through tube wells pumping because it is short of about 45 to 50 maf of surface water. This injects about 350 million tons of injurious salts in to the fertile lands each year through one million small tube wells installed by the farmers indiscriminately. There is no concept for <b>Integrated Comprehensive Water Management to save water wastage.</b> The major causes of internal insecurity of water besides lack of finances are:-<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">* Not modernizing the <b>165 years old,</b> highly wasteful, incompatible and obsolete canal irrigation system to save about 50 maf of surface water to meet timely crop water requirements in proper dozes to get optimum crop yield. There will then be no need pumping 45 to 50 maf of saline drainage effluent. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">* Not building the <b>35 maf Katzarah Dam </b>on the Indus and the <b>8.5 maf Guroh Dop Dam </b>on Punjkora River to secure floodwater going waste to sea. Katzarah Dam will be the highest and the narrowest dam in the world. It will be higher than the highest proposed Rogun Dam on Vakhsh River in Tajikistan. It is brought to notice that one maf of water can produce agricultural products worth $ 2 billion. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">* Not providing vital component of sub-surface tile drainage to control salinity, sodicity and water logging for keeping soil healthy. There are no means to evacuate soil salinity and maintain salt and water balance by controlling water table. This is because lack of knowledge of the<b> technical definition of drainage.</b> WAPDA executed tube wells based drainage namely, Salinity Control and Reclamation Projects (SCARPs) and National Drainage Project (NDP) installing thousands of large tube wells to pump injurious drainage effluent and reuse it for irrigation. This is a wrong practice. Moreover, WAPDA large tube wells failed. The use of drainage effluent aggravated salinity in soil. Both mega drainage project failed and abandoned by WAPDA. Presently there is no drainage system, a vital part of irrigation work. The proper drainage is sub-surface tile drainage to physically evacuate salinity out of the area and not reuse it for irrigation. Pakistan has polluted its groundwater turning it into injurious drainage effluent because of wrong drainage planning in adopting tube wells as drainage structure. Tube well cannot evacuate salinity but circulate it. WAPDA ignored to provide the established <b>tile drainage </b>probably it did not know the correct definition of drainage as given below.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Drainage is the essential part of irrigation works, collecting the water that leached the salts out of soil and evacuating outside the area, as well as separating the ‘reclaimed layer’ from the sub-soil to avoid raising the water table with the resultant retrogression. Drainage prevents rise in water, keeping the later at a depth that will not harm root development and maintain salt and water balance” <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">*After the failed drainage projects, the farmers came to know of the availability of underground water not knowing that it is the saline drainage effluent. The farmers therefore installed one million small tube wells since then, pumping about 45 maf of saline groundwater for irrigation use indiscriminately. Groundwater is in fact the injurious drainage effluent not fit for irrigation use. The use of saline drainage effluent injects about 350 million tons of injurious salts into the soil each year, destroying fertile soil, <b>invisibly and gradually.</b> It is estimated that the Indus Basin lands under canal irrigation would become infertile to various degree in about 40 years. In such a case, water would be of no use as lands would be rendered useless. Therefore, healthy land and secured water both are equally vital inputs of agriculture that need safeguaqrd.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">*About 30 maf theft of water or its unauthorized use is reported between the reaches Chashma to Guddu and from Guddu to Kotri barrage on the Indus. Private tube wells zones are developed in the 14 miles wide bed of the Indus River. This needs investigation, confirmation and control by IRSA and the provinces to save water.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Definition of Water Security<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For conditions in Pakistan, water security can be defined to include saving water in the wasteful canal irrigation system. Water security involves the sustainable use, efficient practice of water use and protection of canal system from floods and droughts by building dams and providing water through modern lined canal system to crops as per crop consumptive use in time and in proper dozes. It includes accessibility to the catchment area for watershed management and the enforcement of Integrated Comprehensive Water Management (ICWM) as per its <b>technical definition</b> to use water efficiently, avoiding all wastage. As in case of <b>drainage,</b> no one knew the correct technical definition of <b>Integrated Comprehensive Water Management (ICWM)</b> which is as follows:-<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Definition of Integrated Comprehensive Water Management<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Water Management is defined as the combined processes of storage, diversion, conveyance, regulation, measurement, distribution and application of the rational amount of water at proper time and removal of excess water from the farms to promote increased production economically, in conjunction with improvement of agricultural practice and institutional arrangement”. dozes<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">*The above definition clearly indicates that Irrigation Engineers, Drainage Engineers and agriculture experts including Agronomists and Soil Scientists must plan together the various components of ICWM. In developing irrigated agriculture projects, water experts and agriculture experts are pole apart though it’s a joint work. This needs close cooperation to avoid water wastage and water scarcity besides achieving optimum crop yield per acre.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Unfortunately, Pakistan has not yet framed its <b>water policy. </b>Moreover, there is no coordination between irrigation engineers who can provide proper irrigation and drainage infrastructures for agriculture development, with the agronomists, soil scientists and agriculture experts. It is the job of both the organizations to provide an irrigation system to meet crop water requirements in time and in proper dozes and maintain salt and water balance in the soil by providing sub-surface tile drainage. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Moreover, Flood irrigation be avoided as for as possible and replaced by Sprinkler and Drip irrigation systems as water security measure. The Ministry of Agriculture is silent in this vital requirement as there is no coordination between the Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Water. The two should be under one Ministry. This is direly essential to achieve optimum crop yield per acre. Presently, both organizations are working separately that is not in the interest of efficient use of water to develop agriculture as water is wasted and crop yield are poor. Efficient use of water is pivotal for water security.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The hydrological system is conceived as a catchment area of a particular river. In case of the Indus and other rivers in Pakistan, their catchment areas extend to two, three or four countries to which Pakistan has no access and cannot carry out watershed management to increase life of its reservoirs. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The primary stakeholders are the Federal Government of Pakistan, the provincial Governments and the owners of land and the farming community. All seems to be inactive. There is no policy and planning of water resources for the future to ensure water security. The Government failed to perceive all that India did to </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Pakistan in 35 years. India usurped Pakistan’s water but Pakistan has shown no concern.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The ongoing controversies on Water Accord, and on the Indus Waters Treaty, are going on for decades unattended and unsolved. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">All this is because of very poor governance, corruption and lack of foresight. There is no proper arrangement to perceive, plan and watch water security for agricultural development. There is no legal and policy framework and institutional structure. There is no one to perceive and determine what is going to happen. Thumb rule and wasteful traditional practices prevails. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For resolving conflicts, no effective system exists. Water is stolen and no action is taken. Water Accord has not been implemented for the last 20 years. Arbitrary changes are made in the constitution of Water Accord in violation of the IRSA Act. This has become the source of dispute. There is no watch on the implementation of the Indus Waters Treaty. There is no planning of water resources, as such, no dams are built for the last 37 years. This negligence resulted in crippling load shedding and devastating floods of 2010. There is no planning for avoiding future floods to achieve water security. The irrigation system is not provided its vital component of drainage to preserve the fertility of land for water use. Water charges are extremely low therefore water projects cannot be implemented. No administrative set up exists to solve more than one dozen water issues of serious nature a threat to water security. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There is great need to remove internal and external water insecurity and their issues to avoid food shortage, famine, hunger and large scale death that may initiate bloody revolution and water war. John Kerry report to the US Senate indicates the possibility of water war in future on the grounds that India has acquired the capability to stop water flow to Pakistan in violation of the IWT, rendering Pakistan unable to grow Rabi crops. Pakistan will feel the destructive impact of the awful calamity of stopping water by India subjecting Pakistan to the torture of hunger and famine. A hungry man becomes a suicide bomber. Similarly, a state subjected to hunger and destruction will attack the aggressor in self defense. John Kerry report is a warning to India and Pakistan to avoid water war and not violate IWT to create water scarcity for Pakistan, and to ensure water security and peace in central Asia.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">Copy to;</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Secretary</b> Ministry of water and power, Islamabad</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Minister </span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">for Water and Power, Islamabad<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Prime Minister</b> of Pakistan, Prime Minister House Islamabad<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The President</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> of Pakistan President House Islamabad<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Mr Kamal Majid ullah</b> Special Assistant to Prime Minister, Islamabad<b><o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Deputy Chairman</b> Planning Commission Islamabad</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I have written dozens of papers to all authorities on the development of water, hydropower and agriculture. Routine courtesy is not shown even to acknowledge the letters what to speak of saving the country from looming water disasters. I think we are heading for bloody revolution when famine and hunger hit the people. I beg, please pay attention as the incoming food shedding will not be tolerable. The authorities have not paid attention even to the warning of Senator John Kerry in a report to US Senate fearing water war. John Kerry stressed to avoid water scarcity and work for water security and peace in the region.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Copy to <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Chairman IRSA </span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Government of Pakistan Islamabad<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">It is brought to the notice of Authority that the matter of insecurity of water would hit IRSA hard as Water Accord would be affected or become inefficacious when India holds 38 maf of the Rabi flows to Pakistan. The insecurity of water is a “matter connected therewith the water of the Indus River system and is ancillary thereto” as provided in the IRSA Act Preamble. Therefore, IRSA may initiate steps to safeguard Pakistan’s water distributed under para 2 of the Water Accord by implementing IC Water Management to avoid all wastage as required in para 14 (e) of the Accord. This is vital to counteract the loss of 38 maf of water withhold by India in 32 dams in occupied Kashmir. IRSA may also take up the case with Foreign Ministry for violation of IWT by India with holding 38 maf of Pakistan’s water besides the silting of replacement reservoirs created under the IWT and the need for its replenishment.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Under para 13 of the Water Accord, IRSA is created with the purpose to implement the Water Accord. Therefore whatever hurdles are there, internal and external, IRSA will handle it. IRSA must therefore approach the Government and the CCI to empower it with the necessary administrative, and financial powers to help solve the water issues to implement Water Accord. IRSA demanded 22 maf of water so let IRSA initiate projects to implement paras 2, 4, 6 and 7 of the Water Accord to create 22 maf of water by building dams specially Katzarah as without Katzarah it is not possible to create 22 maf of storage as there are no feasible mega dam sites.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To achieve this purpose, Water Wing of WAPDA should be shifted to Islamabad and work under the directions of IRSA to implement Water Accord. For this reason, Chairman WAPDA was made ex-officio Member IRSA in the Act. There is no sense in assuming that IRSA is only responsible to monitor the distribution of water resource. In view of para 13, IRSA is created to implement Water Accord, therefore IRSA is to “provide for matters connected therewith and ancillary thereto” as the Preamble provides.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Let IRSA ask for necessary help from the Government to do what is required as this is IRSA responsibility. Water Accord distributed 117.35 maf of water against the available of 105 maf, the short fall of 12.35 maf of water was not arranged by building dams since its creation. The confusion still prevails who would meet this requirement unless IRSA cry for it. So let IRSA cry at least if it is not given the required powers.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>Engr. Fateh Ullah Khan Gandapur 1925-2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/05168447883122388737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8742207062836094646.post-62521143257548097942011-12-08T01:39:00.001-08:002011-12-08T01:40:23.117-08:00WAPDA’s professional inability in Dam sites selection caused billions of Dollars loss in floods and load shedding besides water, power and food insecurity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">WAPDA after creating 47 years (37+10) long status quo only to build <b>Kalabagh Dam or no dam,</b> has destroyed the country by floods and energy shortage. Kalabagh Dam has the poorest capacity inflow ratio in the world, and the rapid silting of reservoir because of wrong hydraulic design that has also limited the hydropower generation capability. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">WAPDA is once again creating one more damaging status quo to permanently destroy irrigated agriculture in the Indus basin causing food insecurity besides water and hydropower insecurity. As a consequence of the long status quo for insisting to build Kalabagh Dam, under the policy<b> “Kalabagh Dam or no dam”</b>, about 22 per cent fertile area of Pakistan was destroyed by the 2010 floods. Moreover, It caused crippling load shedding that destroyed economy. Under the same policy, WAPDA is opposing the unique <b>Katzarah Dam</b> on flimsy grounds that Baltic culture in Skardu valley will be submerged. WAPDA did not carry out its technical feasibility.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">WAPDA therefore misguided the Government of Pakistan about the feasibility of Kalabagh Dam that is politically controversial and technically infeasible for adopting wrong hydraulic design of <b>restricted mid-level sluicing structure.</b> The Kalabagh Project Consultants suggested <b>unrestricted low-level silt sluicing hydraulic structure</b> but WAPDA disagreed with the Kalabagh Project Consultants. Because of wrong hydraulic design, the power generation capability of KBD was reduced to 1250 MW. To make up this deficiency, WAPDA instructed the Project Consultants to install 2000 MW of Thermal Power Plant in support of poor generation of hydropower. WAPDA misguides to claim that KBD will generate 3450 MW of power.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Still continuing the same policy <b>“build Kalabagh Dam or no dam”,</b> the unique and multipurpose <b>35-maf Katzarah Dam,</b> the life-line of Pakistan is shelved by WAPDA on ridiculous grounds in spite of its unique technical merits and its dire need for irrigated agriculture to achieve water, power and food security. WAPDA misguides the Government on dams by sending wrong and exaggerated reports, ignoring huge feasible water storage dams and power generation urgently required to sustain irrigated agriculture and industry. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Let the Government appoint <b>foreign consultants</b> to prepare the feasibility report of Katzarah Dam to know its marvelous merits. Only then decision may be made to build or not to build the unique and multipurpose Katzarah Dam. WAPDA reports are unreliable. Can WAPDA quote any mega storage dam in the world that has not submerged area? Take the case of Three Gorges Dam in China that displaced 2.2 million people. What about Kalabagh Dam? Will it not submerge Peshawar valley and other vast areas?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Katzarah Dam<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">WAPDA has written to the Ministry of Water and Power that it shelved the multipurpose Katzarah Dam on the basis over a dozen negative environmental impacts that made Katzarah Dam unfeasible. Exaggerating the environmental impacts, these are submergence of 13363 acres of land, 130,000 population, 20,000 houses, 7000 shops, hospitals, schools, graveyard, mosques, 40 Km road, airstrip, Shangrila Motel, and archaeological sites besides the Baltic culture. Contrary to this, WAPDA ignored technical merits and its unique benefits in case of Kalabagh Dam. WAPDA views are one sided, immature, and prejudicial. WAPDA failed to investigate the unique and multipurpose technical aspects of the dam that has marvelous merits of functioning as watershed management dam. WAPDA has shown dishonest and prejudice attitude that destroys the natural potentials of water and hydropower resources. At the same time, WAPDA quoted very strong views of the two committees appointed by the Government of Pakistan for dam site selection but these expert views were ignored by WAPDA.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Views of two committees on Katzarah Dam<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“In a recent interview, former Chairman of Indus River System Authority (IRSA) Eng Fateh Ullah Khan Gandapur had termed the proposed dam the only way to resolve the current water and power crisis in the country. A bipartisan Parliamentary Committee led by former senator Nisar Memon and a Technical Committee led by A.N.G Abbasi—both having experts and parliamentarians from all provinces had unanimously called for the construction of Katzarah Dam as the top-most priority in 2005 to end political controversies over mega dams”.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">WAPDA ignored the above views of the four provinces. WAPDA carried out incomplete, one sided, the so called pre-feasibility of Katzarah Dam in 2007 though it promised to Nisar Memon Committee to submit the technical aspect of the pre-feasibility report in September 2005. However, WAPDA ignored the technical side of Katzarah Dam simply <b>“confirmed a potential to impound the average annual flow of Indus at 27 maf”.</b> Surprisingly, WAPDA ignored the two dozens technical merits of Katzarah dam. It only pointed out one aspect of the submergence of houses, shops, graveyards, hospitals, schools, mosques, road, Shangrila Motel, archaeological sites consisting of mosques and graveyard. The pre-feasibility is all ridiculous to misguide the government and the public as WAPDA has hidden the meritorious technical side of the pre-feasibility report. It has completely ignored its unique technical features. Such dams are rare. This is not a feasibility report for a dam and cannot be relied on. The spectacular Katzarah dam site, in the <b>narrowest Indus gorge,</b> with bedside of about 400 feet, about 3 Km or so, on the upstream of Ayub Bridge, on the Indus is the gift of God. How can WAPDA ignore the following two dozen merits of the multipurpose and unique Katzarah Dam?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Unique merits of Katzarah Dam.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">1.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It will control <b>super floods</b> in the Indus as of 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">2.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It will function as <b>water shed management dam to prevent silt</b> in the Indus water that comes from the highly erodible soil of Skardu valley that will be submerged. Katzarah if built will increase the life of Basha Dam from its estimated <b>life of 80 years to 800 years.</b> Also increase the remaining life of Tarbela Reservoir by about <b>50 years.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">3.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Katzarah will be the <b>tallest Dam in the world.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">4.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It will be the narrowest dam in the world, with bed width of about<b> 400 feet.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">5.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Katzarah will have a life span of<b> about 1000 years.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">6.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It will be the <b>cheapest dam in the world </b>per maf of the storage capacity, per MW of power generation, per year of life span, and per year of its service value.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">7.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Katzarah has a gross storage capacity of <b>35 maf, about 6 times the storage capacity of Basha Dam or Kalabagh Dam.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">8.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It has the potential to produce <b>15,000 MW of hydropower</b> generation capability only second to the Three Gorges Dam in China. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">9.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Katzarah is the only dam to meet the <b>22 maf of storage water</b> requirements of IRSA to implement Water Accord. The Accord is not implemented for the past 20 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">10.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It will meet the <b>Replacement storage of about 7.0 maf lost to silting</b> of Tarbela and Mangla Reservoirs. This will replenish the storage lost due to silting, created under the Indus Waters Treaty.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">11.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">India has acquired the ability to store about <b>40 maf of water</b> on Jehlum and Chenab Rivers in the occupied Kashmir, thus preventing flows for Rabi crop growing season. Our Rabi crop water requirements<b> are 38 maf.</b> India will deprive Pakistan of this quantity. Katzarah will mitigate it to avoid famine. There is no other mega storage dam site in Pakistan except Katzarah.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">12.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">India has planned <b>12 dams on Kabul River for Afghanistan</b> preventing Rabi supplies to Pakistan.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">13.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Katzarah is a mega dam for the Water, power and food Security of Pakistan<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">14.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Katzarah has the potential to irrigate the <b>entire Kachi plain of Baluchistan </b>by gravity flow from Chashma Barrage as proposed by me in 1962, under the title <b>“All Pakistan Grand Canal”.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">15.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Katzarah has many times more storage <b>than the storage capacities of all the dams</b> in Pakistan.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">16.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Katzarah is <b>a seasonal Dam.</b> It will supply water when required most in lean period<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">17.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Katzarah is <b>a carryover dam.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">18.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Katzarah is the <b>only dam </b>to sustain the Indus basin irrigation system.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">19.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Katzarah <b>is the only dam</b> in Pakistan to support the irrigation system to produce food and ensure food security as <b>there are no dam sites on Kabul, Jehlum and Chenab Rivers.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">20.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Katzarah Dam has the<b> best Capacity Inflow Ratio in the entire reach of the Indus River.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">21.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Government should ask WAPDA, how would it meet the <b>storage water requirements of 22 maf demanded by IRSA, 7.0 maf as replacement storage lost due to silting and other irrigation water needs besides water requirements to check sea water intrusion as demanded by Sindh. </b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">22.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As far as hydropower generation is concerned, <b>Katzarah would generate more power than the combined power generation from Bunji Dam, Dasu Dam, Munda Dam, Kurram Tangi, and Gomal Dam.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">23.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Katzarah Dam would<b> mitigate</b> the adverse effects of climate change.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">24.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Katzarah Dam will support artificial <b>afforestation</b> of the country.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">25.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Katzarah would <b>mitigate</b> the serious situation created by India <b>by building 32 dams on Jehlum and Chenab Rivers, stopping Rabi supplies to Pakistan,</b> as revealed by the Report of <b>John Kerry to the U.S. Senate.</b> The report is as follows:-<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">26.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“that India has acquired the ability to store enough water to limit the supply of water to Pakistan at critical moment in the growing season.”</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">27.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Katzarah is the only dam to meet this destructive situation. If WAPDA foolishly ignores Katzarah, then<b> which dams would meet Rabi water requirements of about 38 maf</b> to avoid famine? WAPDA should <b>name the dams </b>with assurance that they are feasible.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The nature of other dams in Pakistan<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Bunji Dam, Dasu Dam and Munda Dam </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">are mostly power dams.<b> Gomal Dam and Kurram Tangi Dam</b> have very small power generation, and small storage capacities. These are local dams. <b>Kalabagh Dam</b> is politically controversial and technically infeasible for its hydraulic design and weak foundation besides low power generation requiring 2000 MW of thermal power support. <b>Akhori Dam,</b> the off channel dam, has been declared <b>infeasible by Dr Pieter Lieftnick in 1968</b> due to weak foundation, and many other reasons including the <b>raising of the height of Tarbela Dam by 15 feet.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Guroh Dop Dam</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> in Dir on Panjkora River is a wonderful, multipurpose dam with a storage capacity of <b>8.5 maf,</b> generating about 600 MW of hydropower. It has excellent capacity inflow ratio. It has life span of 1000 years but is ignored by WAPDA. This dam has also the capability to store another <b>4 maf</b> of flood water to be diverted through a tunnel from Chitral River by building a dam at <b>Mirkhani </b>and generate more power. <b>Guroh Dop Dam</b> is a wonderful flood control dam for Kabul River flow. Unfortunately this is again ignored by WAPDA though it is located only a few miles upstream of the <b>single purpose Munda Dam. </b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Three big Rivers have no storage dam sites in Pakistan.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It is unfortunate that there are <b>no storage dam sites on Kabul River, Jehlum River and Chenab River</b> in Pakistan. Therefore no flood control is possible on these rivers. This means Pakistan can only harness the Indus River flow. Indus River is therefore the backbone of the world’s largest contiguous Indus basin canal irrigation system. We must concentrate on the Indus River the life-line of Pakistan and on the unique Katzarah Dam. We must create <b>Indus Valley Authority </b>to develop water and hydropower potentials to the optimum limit on Indus river. WAPDA proved <b>incapable</b> to develop water and hydropower resources for food production <b>in about 54 years</b> of its creation.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The most promising dam sites in Pakistan are Katzarah Dam, followed by Guroh Dop Dam. Mirkhani Dam, and the Raised Barrage-cum-dam at the end of the Indus River valley</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> are their supporting dams. The raised barrage-cum-dam is a substitute for Kalabagh Dam. The unique aspect of this project is that it requires <b>no land acquisition, no land compensation and no displacement of population.</b> Implement these four projects to save Pakistan from famine, hunger and death. Let the Government know that <b>India has waged a silent war, using water as a weapon of mass destruction </b>to ruin the Indus basin irrigation system.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">WAPDA’s professional inability may be judged from the failure of the following mega projects, causing billions of rupees losses by abandoning projects.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">1.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">WAPDA failed to align the <b>Kachi Kanal</b> to command area in Baluchistan from Mithan Kot and as such abandoned it due to wrong planning.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">2.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">WAPDA planned Salinity control and reclamation projects <b>(SCARPs) </b>that failed to remove and control salinity<b> </b>and sodicity from the Indus basin canal command area as WAPDA did not know the <b>technical definition of Drainage</b> of irrigated lands to eradicate and control salinity and sodicity and maintain salt and water balance. WAPDA installed tube wells that pumped drainage effluent as groundwater to irrigate lands. This created more salinity. It did not provide horizontal sub-surface tile drainage to evacuate salinity out of the area as per the technical definition of drainage. WAPDA failed after wasting Rs 500 billions.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">3.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">WAPDA planned National Drainage Programme <b>(NDP)</b> on similar lines but failed again wasting billions of rupees. Both the drainage projects were abandoned. The irrigation system is incomplete as its vital component of drainage system is missing. As such, it is subjected to rapid salinity. May be that in about 35 years the Indus basin turns as saline waste. If such situation arises, then irrigated agriculture would not develop as land and water are the basic and vital inputs of irrigated agriculture. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">4.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Indus basin irrigation system <b>has no drainage system</b>—a very vital component of irrigation system. Therefore salinity is spreading fast to destroy the fertile lands creating food insecurity that would result in famine and hunger.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">5.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">WAPDA selected dam site at Kalabagh, the end of the Indus River valley at a site that has the poorest capacity-inflow ratio, giving very short life as silt from a catchment area of <b>110,500 squire miles</b> amounting to <b>550 million tons, equivalent to 0.3 maf,</b> would be deposited in the reservoir. WAPDA wasted money and time and created status quo in dams building that caused super flood damages and crippling load shedding. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">6.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">WAPDA is now objecting to the construction of the unique <b>Katzarah Dam</b> on flimsy grounds, ignoring <b>22 maf </b>storage water for IRSA, <b>7.0</b> maf to replace storage lost, <b>10 maf </b>demanded by Sindh to check sea intrusion, and to meet Rabi shortages after India holds <b>40 maf</b> water in dams in occupied Kashmir, not allowing the <b>38 maf</b> of water required for growing Rabi crops to Pakistan. WAPDA ignores unique dam sites on the Indus and on Panjkora River.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">7.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">WAPDA never bothered to plan to carry out Integrated Comprehensive Water Management <b>of the 150 years old, highly wasteful, incompatible and obsolete canal irrigation system to save 45 to 50 maf of water going waste.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">8.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">WAPDA never planned to control <b>super floods</b> in the Indus River and Kabul River.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">9.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">WAPDA has no strategy to counter the stoppage of rivers supplies of about <b>38 maf</b> for Rabi crops by India who built 32 dams in occupied Kashmir.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">10.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ignoring all above realities, WAPDA has shelved the unique 35-maf Katzarah Dam and the multipurpose Guroh Dop Dam due to WAPDA poor planning capability.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">11.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">WAPDA has also ignored the project conceived by me for the <b>Raised-dam-cum-barrage</b> at the end of the Indus valley, storing <b>3.4 maf </b>of water repeatedly to be filled, generating between <b>2000 MW to 6000 MW</b> of hydropower besides acting as balancing reservoir and a unique substitute for Kalabagh Dam. This projects involves<b> no land acquisition, no land compensation and no population displacement</b> as the reservoir is within the Indus valley.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">12.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">WAPDA failed to align Kachi canal from Chashma barrage as proposed by me in April 1962 as <b>All Pakistan Grand Canal, irrigating the entire Kachi plain of Baluchistan.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">13.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">WAPDA harmed the country much more than the <b>war on terror</b> by wasting time, money, and by destroying the natural resources of water and hydropower creating water shortage and food insecurity.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I feel our institutions have gone into deep<b> coma</b> as they have taken no action on my reports on dozens of water issues faced by Pakistan and on the report of John Kerry. I feel national interests are ignored. I feel our doom is near. A miracle can save the situation but miracles are rare. God will not help us by miracles as we do not help ourselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"> </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">Copt to:-</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"> The President of Pakistan, President House Islamabad</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"> The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Prime Minister House, Islamabad.</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"> The Minister of Water and Power, Pakistan Secretariat, Islamabad</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"> The Secretary Ministry of Water and Power, Islamabad.</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"> Advisor on Water, Ministry of Water and Power, Islamabad.</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"> Chairman Indus River System Authority (IRSA) Islamabad.</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"> Minister for Finance, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"> Minister for Food and Agriculture, Government of Pakistan Islamabad</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"> Chief Minister Government of PK (NWFP), Chief Minister House, Peshawar</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"> Chief Minister Government of Punjab Lahore</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"> Chief Minister Government of Baluchistan, Quetta</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"> Chief Minister Government of Sindh Karachi</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">I have explained the serious situation of <b>Water Security Power Security, Food Security,</b> destruction of irrigated agriculture, silting of reservoirs, rapid salinity of land, wasteful and obsolete canal irrigation system, Indian aggression using water as a weapon of mass destruction against Pakistan, John Kerry report on water situation showing violation of the Indus Waters Treaty, India planning 12 dams for Afghanistan on Kabul River, Flood devastation of Pakistan and controlling floods in future, blockage of natural drains due to encroachments violating canal and drainage act of 1887 and the Lack of Integrated Comprehensive Water Management <b>wasting 45 maf to 50 maf of water</b> in the incompatible and obsolete canal irrigation system, besides in floods. </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">To improve things, I suggest the institution of inquiry why WAPDA failed to develop land, water and power resources for which it was created. Why WAPDA adopted policy of <b>“Kalabagh Dam or no dam”</b> that resulted in devastating floods in 2010 and the never ending crippling load shedding that destroyed industries and business. I suggest shifting Water Wing of WAPDA to Islamabad as it was done for IRSA. I further suggest creating <b>Indus Valley Authority</b> to develop the Indus River on the lines of Tennessee Valley Authority. I suggest solving all the water issues as pointed out above. For more details, each of the above water issue is discussed in my website <b>fatehuk.blogspot.com</b> </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"> </div></div>Engr. Fateh Ullah Khan Gandapur 1925-2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/05168447883122388737noreply@blogger.com1