In order to avert this many lives lost - Pakistan should start The Kalabagh Bunn!

Obama · August 12, 2010, 2:50pm

Re: In order to avert this many lives lost - Pakistan should start The Kalabagh Bunn!

It wouldn’t have made any difference, so far 80% of all deaths were in K-P and that was upstream of the KB site again it wouldn’t have made a difference to Balochistan either. Bhasha and Munda dam would have lessened the effect but not stopped it..

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\08\12\story_12-8-2010_pg7_2
KBD would have caused more flooding: expert

Former IRSA chief says dam is not a flood-control project

ANP says dam would have done immense harm to KP, Sindh

By Iqbal Khattak

PESHAWAR: The Kalabagh Dam – had it been built – would have caused flooding rather than averting it, a former chairman of the Indus River System Authority (IRSA) said on Wednesday, while responding to Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s recent statement about the dam.

“The dam’s effect on floods would have been contrary to what the prime minister claimed,” said Fatehullah Khan Gandapur, who headed IRSA from 1993 to 1998.

The KP leadership has criticised the PM’s statement, and Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain termed the project “a dead horse”. “Kalabagh dam is not a flood-control project,” Gandapur said while talking to Daily Times on Wednesday. “It is a run-of-the-river project and its design has to be changed if we want to make it a flood-control project,” he said.

Gandapur said the dam’s construction would have caused reverse flow in the Kabul River, submerging Nowshera district and water-logging the entire Peshawar valley. “Consultants have called the dam’s design a failure,” he said.

So What does Mr Khattak propose?

Throwing a “Virgin Maiden” to stop the Flooding?..