Media Talk Show on “Importance of Dams in Pakistan” by AAJ News
Let’s join hands together for Importance of Dams in Pakistan at the time of Global Warming and Water Crisis!
Pakistan wants to build one of the biggest dams in the region to overcome the problem of water crises in Pakistan. Bhasha Damis a multipurpose project aims at overcoming water storage and achieving flood mitigation and power generation targets. Barrett Hodgson University, being a sciences focused university is taking a lead in organizing Youth Awareness campaign on “Importance of Dams in Pakistan at the time of Global Warming and Water Crisis”, on Thursday, 11th October 2018, at 2 PM sharp.
#BHU in association with Rizwan Jaffar (Founder Chairman Youth Parliament Pakistan), feels proud to be able to host a media show with eminent scholars and subject experts i.e. Prof. Dr. Moinuddin (Director Geolinks, Visiting Professor. at Indiana State University, USA, recently represented Pakistan at an International Meteorological Conference at Beijing, China), Prof. Dr. Pirzada Jamaluddin Ahmed Siddiqui (Former Director, Centre of Excellence, Marine Biology), Prof. Dr. Moazzam Ali Khan (Former Director, Institute of Environmental Studies, University of Karachi), and Dr. Nazir Ahmed Lone (Associate Professor at Barrett Hodgson University, Former Consultant on Glacier Lake Outburst Floods Projects at Ministry of Climate Change & UNDP). Team Aaj News will be here for media recording show “Sawal Hai Pakistan Ka”.
We also request our youth to participate in this talk show, spread word and raise funds for Diamer-Bhasha Dam and show your love, passion, and patriotism for your country. We would love to see participation and contributions from everyone.
The future of this country is in our hands, the people of Pakistan. May the Godspeed be with all of us!
Abstract
According to a recent report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Pakistan ranks third in the world among countries facing acute water shortage. Reports by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) also warn the authorities that the South Asian country will reach absolute water scarcity by 2025. “No person in Pakistan, whether from the North with its more than 5,000 glaciers, or from the South with its ‘hyper deserts,’ will be immune to this scarcity,” said Neil Buhne, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Pakistan.
Researchers predict that Pakistan is on its way to becoming the most water-stressed country in the region by the year 2040. It is not the first time that development and research organizations have alerted Pakistani authorities about an impending crisis. In 2016, PCRWR reported that Pakistan touched the “water stress line” in 1990 and crossed the “water scarcity line” in 2005. If this situation persists, Pakistan is likely to face an acute water shortage or a drought-like situation in the near future, according to PCRWR, which is affiliated with the South Asian country’s Ministry of Science and Technology.
Diamer-Basha Dam is a multipurpose project aims at overcoming water storage and achieving flood mitigation and power generation targets. The project, which will be constructed across River Indus about 40-kilometre downstream of Chilas Town, will have 272-metre high Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC) Dam. It will have a gross water storage capacity of 8.1 million acre feet (MAF) and add more than 18 billion units of low-cost and environment friendly electricity to the national grid per annum. But it doesn’t have the Rs 1.4 trillion needed for the project.