Water issue: important links; please read before forming an opinion

Water issue: important links; please read before forming an opinion

By Aziz Narejo

Pakistan is facing great many problems today. They relate to all aspects of our society. Many of them are a direct result of the absence/lack of democracy and the denial of provincial autonomy in the country.

These serious problems have all the potential to destroy all that we have. But there still is a little glimmer of hope: if the concerned people act with responsibility and try to solve the issues in a fair manner, we may be able to save some of the situation and bring peace and prosperity to the people who have seen none in their lifetimes or that of many of their earlier generations. Will we rise to the occasion?

One of the major problems facing the country is the water issue. Unjust government policies, ill-planning and ignoring a section of the population and favoring the other has brought disaster to us. It has created economic hardships for people, robbed them of their sources of livelihood, increased poverty, created disharmony among the provinces and destroyed the environment and echo system in the lower riparian province.

I request all the concerned people, the leadership and the common men and women to please rethink the policies that have been in vogue in the country, acquaint yourself with the factual positions, avoid the rhetoric and do what IS just and fair and IS seen to be just and fair.

There were times when the common folk would easily be fooled with misleading data and emotional ‘word play but no longer it is possible.

The people have alternate sources of information available to them and they are actually in the know of many of the things that their masters think that they don’t. Today they may be powerless and may not be able to match the brute powers unleashed by the unjust state but tomorrow they will. Then it may be too late for ‘you’ (the perpetrators of excesses) and for us (the common men and women belonging to the wronged sections of the society) to save the situation.

The generals in power today are committing fatal mistakes. They have to see the writing on the wall.

Friends, I have hurriedly collected here some links that will give you information on the water issue. I may not agree with some of the opinions expressed therein but I am forwarding all of them to you anyway. I believe that only well-informed minds can make just decisions. I request you all to please read all the aspects of this important issue that is going to affect the lives of millions of people today and tomorrow before forming an opinion on it.

With best wishes,

Aziz Narejo

http://www.sanalist.org/kalabagh/a-7.htm Kalabagh Dam: Look Before Your Leap By: Engr. ANG Abbasi & Engnr. Abdul Majid Kazi

A comprehensive and must read article that gives you information on availability of water, inaccuracies, inconsistencies and shifting positions in WAPDA's computations, out flow to sea: environmental effects, justification for Kalabagh Dam to overcome effect of silting of existing reservoirs and to utilize Water Accord allocations, alternatives to hydel power generation, threat To Nowshera town, Peshawar Valley and geological aspects and the conclusions.

http://www.sanalist.org/kalabagh/a-21.htm Rivers water dispute-I Making of a tragedy (Daily The News) By: Ret. Chief Engineer A. A. Musalman

http://www.sanalist.org/kalabagh/a-22.htm Rivers water dispute-II Harvest of problems (Daily The News) By: Ret. Chief Engineer A. A. Musalman

http://www.sanalist.org/kalabagh/D-8.htm Indus waters imbroglio By: Ret. Chief Engineer A. A. Musalman (The News, July 21, 2003)

http://sindh.ws/indusfarming/issues/swir.htm Irrigation expert rebuts Musharraf's mumbo-jumbo on water issue Engineer and former provincial irrigation secretary

http://www.dawn.com/2002/03/25/ebr4.htm Facts about Thal flood water canal By former Federal Water and Power Secretary, Syed Shahid Husain

http://www.sanalist.org/kalabagh/a-10.htm Kalabagh Dam -- Development or disaster? A comprehensive article by Engnr. Iftikhar Ahmad, B.Eng'g (Civil), MBA (Finance), P.G. Diploma in Public Administration Peshawar

http://www.sanalist.org/kalabagh/a-14.htm THE KALABAGH CONTROVERSY By: Dr. Shaheen Rafi Khan, CEESP/SDPI

http://www.sanalist.org/kharif2000riverwater.htm “Kharif 2000 River WaterDistribution and Management” A report by Engr. A. N. G. Abbasi, Engr. Shaikh Manzoor Ahmed, Engr. Kazi Abdul Majid, Engr. Qamaruddin Sahto and President of Chamber of Agriculture, Sindh and former MNA Syed Qamar uz Zaman Shah.

It shows you how the provisions of the 1991 Water Accord were contravened and also that the shortage of water in Punjab that year was 20.4 percent while the same in Sindh was 29.9 percent. It also tells how another 6.173 MAF of water was illegally diverted through the Chashma Jhelum and Taunsa Panjnad link canals.

http://www.sanalist.org/kalabagh/a-15.htm THE KALABAGH DAM ORCHESTRATION By: A.M.H Kango, former Secretary, High Powered Water Distribution Committee, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad

http://www.escribe.com/science/ifn/m2252.html Sindh Punjab water dispute 1859-2002 A comprehensive article by veteran writer, intellectual and political leader Mr. Rasool Bux Palijo

http://www.sanalist.org/kalabagh/a-5.htm Kalabagh Dam: An Ecological Disaster An article by Research Scholar and Author Mr. Abrar Kazi

http://www.sanalist.org/kalabagh/a-9.htm Kalabagh dam: the other view A Dawn (14 January, 2000) article by Research Scholar and Author Mr. Abrar Kazi

http://www.escribe.com/science/ifn/m165.html Kalabagh dam: in focus again By Syed Munir Husain

http://www.pakissan.com/english/issues/kalabagh.dam.shtml Kalabagh Dam needs review By: Engineer Akram Khan

http://www.hrwallingford.co.uk/downloads/projects/Tarbela%20Dam.pdf Reservoir Sediment Management: Tarbela Dam A Project Report by HR Wallingford

http://www.dams.org/docs/kbase/studies/cspkmain.pdf Tarbela Dam and related aspects of the Indus Basin, Pakistan A case study by the World Commission on Dams

http://www.sanalist.org/kalabagh/a-11.htm Kalabagh: Need for Informed Debate BY ALY ERCELAWN & OMAR ASGHAR KHAN

http://www.sanalist.org/kalabagh/a-1.htm DAMMING KALABAGH State vs Community, Centre vs Territory, Nation vs Federation Aly Ercelawn and Muhammad Nauman (The News, 1998)

http://www.sanalist.org/NYTIMES.htm A Province Is Dying of Thirst, and Cries Robbery By ERIK ECKHOLM (March 17, 2003 report in NY Times)

http://www.sanalist.org/River.htm A River Diverted, the Sea Rushes In By ERIK ECKHOLM (April 22, 2003, report in NY Times)

http://www.panhwar.com/Article78.htm Sindh-Punjab mistrust has long history An expert on irrigation and agriculture in Sindh, Mr. M.H. Panhwar interviewed by Mr. Anwer Pirzado (daily Star)

http://www.escribe.com/science/ifn/m2217.html Unjust Water Distribution By writer, research scholar, Anwer Pirzado

http://sindh.ws/indusfarming/issues/emita.htm Is agriculture more important than ecology? By writer, research scholar, Anwer Pirzado

http://www.escribe.com/science/ifn/m134.html Sindh, not Punjab, has primary historic rights over Sindh Darya By writer, research scholar, Anwer Pirzado

http://www.newsline.com.pk/Newsapr2002/newsbeat2.htm Floodgates of Discord By Massoud Ansari (Newsline, April 2002)

http://www.sanalist.org/kalabagh/a-13.htm THE CASE AGAINST KALABAGH DAM

http://www.sanalist.org/kalabagh/a-16.htm Unacceptability of the Dam By: Lt Col (R) Raees Khan Afridi

http://www.sanalist.org/kalabagh/a-18.htm WATER CRISIS IN PAKISTAN An eye-opening article by FARRUKH SOHAIL GOINDI. Tells you Bhasha will be more problematic than Tarbela

http://sindh.ws/indusfarming/issues/gtc.htm Greater Thal Canal By an agriculturist and writer Mir Atta Muhammad Talpur

http://www.sanalist.org/kalabagh/a-19.htm Water shortage in Sindh: causes and consequences By an agriculturist and writer Mir Atta Muhammad Talpur

http://www.sanalist.org/kalabagh/a-8.htm Kalabagh Dam Political, Environmental & Humanitarian Disaster in Pakistan (8 Jul 1998) By: Research Scholar and Advocate Ayaz Latif Palijo

http://www.sanalist.org/kalabagh/D-1.htm An Overview of the History and Impacts of the Water Issue in Pakistan A comprehensive article by: Altaf A. Memon (Ph.D)

http://www.sanalist.org/historylogiglaw.htm HISTORY, LOGIC, LAW AND POLITICS OF WATER AND INDUS BY JAVED QAZI (THIS ARTICLE APPEARED IN IBRAT ON 22ND MAY 2003)

http://www.sanalist.org/kalabagh/D-5.htm Disastrous Impacts of "Indus Link" Outfall of RBOD By Research Scholar, Sikander Brohi

http://www.sanalist.org/kalabagh/a-4.htm An article on Indus Water Pollution

http://www.sindh.ws/indusfarming/issues/ttwall.htm Water Issue: Talking to the wall

Water crisis: some misconceptions http://www.dawn.com/2004/06/29/letted.htm#7

Dams, ports and NFC http://www.dawn.com/2004/05/19/letted.htm#1

Government's water policy http://www.dawn.com/2004/02/10/letted.htm#2

Unjust distribution of water http://www.dawn.com/2004/06/18/letted.htm#3

Mega water projects and Sindh http://www.dawn.com/2003/12/13/letted.htm#1

http://www.dawn.com/2004/08/01/letted.htm#1 Fallacies about dams By Manzoor Chandio

http://www.sindh.ws/indusfarming/reports/orchardchopping.htm Sad day dawns on Sindh: Sindhis start chopping their orchards! [The Star, Karachi, report]

http://www.dawn.com/2004/03/22/ebr15.htm Down stream Kotri: constitutional position By Zulfiqar Halepoto

http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/79615/1/ Water Wars: Pakistani Provinces Clash Over Mega Dam OneWorld South Asia

http://sindh.ws/indusfarming/issues/iwhuc.htm "Historic use" sharing of Indus River water (1994) is illegal and unconstitutional Clarification by ex-Senator Taj Haider

Other related articles at: http://www.escribe.com/science/ifn/index.html?by=Author&a=IFN http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/lists/html/dam-l/2000/threads.html#00376

http://www.himalmag.com/2002/july/report_4.htm Water wars: SindhÂ’s struggle for control of the Indus Even while the India-Pakistan treaty for sharing the Indus waters remains operational, the provinces of Pakistan are squabbling. Mostly, it is Sindh vs. Punjab. A South Asian magazine, HimalÂ’s special report by Hasan Mansoor

http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/lists/html/dam-l/2000/msg00376.html Kalabagh dam project - A critical view By: Engr Abdul Aziz Buriro (The Frontier Post)

http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/lists/html/dam-l/2000/msg00379.html The myth of large dams By Engr Javaid R. Leghare (The frontier Post)

http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/lists/html/dam-l/2000/msg00378.html The myth of large dams By: Engr Javaid R. Leghare (The Frontier Post)

http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/lists/html/dam-l/2000/msg00382.html DAMMING the PEOPLE of the INDUS By Aly Ercelawn (creed@awara.khi.sdnpk.undp.org), Karamat Ali (b.m.kutty@cyber.net.pk), Omar Asghar Khan (omar@oak.sdnpk.undp.org)

http://www.sanalist.org/kalabagh/a-17.htm Water Appointment Accord Apportionment of the Waters of Indus River System between the provinces

http://wrmin.nic.in/international/industreaty.htm Indus Basin Water Treaty (1960)

http://www.stimson.org/southasia/?sn=sa20020116300 Indus Water Treaty - abridged text

International Rivers Network http://www.irn.org/basics/ard/index.asp?id=BeyondDamsReport.html

World Commission on Dams http://www.dams.org/