The leaders of farming community here on Monday at the office of Sindh Abadgar Board expressed serious concern over the lobbying for the construction of dams and said that construction of conventional type of dams would not be a viable solution to overcome the problem of water shortage.
They maintained that the task to study the feasibility of the new water conservation projects was assigned to technical committee that had to submit its reports by February 2005 and any campaign for lobbying for the construction of dam would impair the credibility of the government.
Sindh, they said would not agree to construction of large conventional dams even if the technical committee gave a positive note on availability of surplus water and unless the genuine grievances of the province were addressed.
They demanded that sharing of water should be carried out on the basis of 10 daily allocations, which was also part of the Water Accord. Water should not store in any dam unless Sindh got its allocated share.
The growers said that they fully realise the adverse impact of global changes in climatic conditions, rain pattern and poor melting of ice and glaciers, which had reduced water reserves.
They feared that acute water shortage at the time Kharif crop sowing would result in a shortfall of cotton and rice production.
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