Pakistan Furniture Council (PFC) on Sunday announced a donation of Rs 1 million for construction of Diamer-Bhasha, Mohmand dams' funds and expressed solidarity towards a noble cause raised by Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar of raising funds for the much-needed dams. In his statement issued here, he said it was high time to work as a nation and overcome menace of water scarcity through a national resolve to leave behind a better and prosperous country for the future generations.
He said rapid increase in population was the major contributing factor behind this phenomenon. So the country needs to construct more dams to enhance its water storage capacity to cope with the water requirements. He said a lack of storage capacity and infrastructure, 30 MAF water discharges into the sea during the flood season, causing a loss of $14 billion annually to the country.
For a country that uses nearly 90% of its water resources for agriculture and depends on the sector to remain buoyant, this is ridiculous. What is more ridiculous is that we have known this for decades and have still not been able to build dams to stem the tide. He said an additional 20 million acres could be brought under irrigated agriculture if water was made available by constructing more dams.