Published in The News on November 11, 2006
In my youth, I used to travel a lot by rail from Karachi to Peshawar. After the construction of Mangla dam, I noticed that there was less water in the Indus than in the fifties. After Tarbela was built, water in the river was further reduced. In fact, in Sindh they say that these two dams have turned the river into a storm water drain.
The high percentage of sewage in the Indus is likely to kill all marine life, besides exposing those living on its banks to the danger of gastroenteritis. Building the Kalabagh Dam will be the final nail in the coffin. As for power production, it would be more profitable to invest in windmills or solar energy.
Shakir Lakhani
Karach.
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