Pakistan's New Big Threat Isn't Terrorism—It's Water

[Silaaj]

Re: Pakistan’s New Big Threat Isn’t Terrorism—It’s Water

@queer

the rivers that are supposed to be for pakistan as per the IWT, are geographically unsuitable for india to use for anything other than small hydel power plants. no storage, no arable lands without serious investment in pumping water over multiple mountain ranges down to the plains.

pakistan’s power outages aren’t because india is storing away their water flow magically. it is because the government refuses to pay the generating plants for electricity already consumed. even when pakistan talks about importing power from india, the plan is for india to import additional fuel, generate power in india from extra generation capability, and sell this - and not sell an existing surplus from hydel power. this is how lousy/chalaak your government is.

IWT affects agriculture more than hydel power generation. Pakistanis have been living without electricity for a long time, and have proven that they can survive…but agriculture is the backbone of Pakistan, which is being hurt by dams built on Jhelum, Chenab and Indus, which are meant exclusively for Pakistan under IWT.