As agreed in the Water Accord-1991, a survey for the release of water in downstream Kotri was to be conducted by Wapda to fix the quantity of water to be released in order to save the Indus Delta - the sixth largest in the world - and to meet the mandatory requirements of water for 2.6 million people living in an area of 145 kilometres stretching between Kotri and the Arabian Sea, in Sindh.
Sorry to say, the Wapda has miserably failed to conduct a survey on these lines despite the passage of as many as 21 years. Wapda, however, had reportedly conducted a survey on its own without taking Sindh into confidence. Obviously, this was not acceptable to Sindh.
In the absence of the required release of water, the Indus Delta is on the verge of ruination due to man-made scarcity of water resulting in intrusion of sea water inundating 2.7 million acres of valuable land. Wapda is a department of federal government and it is its duty to look after the national interests of all.
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