Monument of Destruction: Right Bank Outfall Drainage Project

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Monument of Destruction Right Bank Outfall
Drainage Project
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Approaching the Drainage IssueSymptoms rather
Causes

• Big Projects (SCARP, LBOD and Now RBOD)
• Ignoring Sources of Drainable surplus

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Ideological Division

• People Focused, Environment Friendly,
  Economically Efficient and Financially
  Beneficial Philosophy
• Versus
• Over Simplified, Engineering Structures Guided
  by Tunnel vision.

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Salient Features of Drain

• 273 KM Long
• Disposal in Gharo Creek at Thatta district
• 282 structures
• Effluent
• Stage 1 2271 Cusecs
• Stage 2 3500 Cusecs ( Drain to be Constructed)
• Stage 3 Under discussion at Planning Division

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Why to Hide? Issue of Transparency

• No single Public Consultation
• Hiding project related Information
• Why Information sharing is Essential
• Generates wider public acceptance
•   Ensures transparency and accountability
•   Gives space for wider public discourse and
  participation
•    Pools knowledge base from both experts and
  local wisdom
•   Corrects project/program at planning phase

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Origin of Disaster

• Converting Fresh Water MNV into Drain by WAPDA in
  1984
• Gambling with Manchar Lake

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State of Decision Making/Proposals

• Devastation of
• Manchar
• Indus Link 43 billion
• Baran Nai 45 billion
• Lakha Range
• Foothills 76 billion
• Baran Nai though Tunnel 84
• Finally RBOD 14 billion

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Basic Logic of Planners

• Transport drainage water from 32 drains
• Saving of Manchar Lake from drainage water
• Saving River Indus from Pollution

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Reason to Ask?

• Why toxic drainage effluent disposed in Manchar?
• Who was responsible?
• What accountability mechanism is to deal with
  such kind of crimes?

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Who Cares? Uprooting of Villages

• Complete demolition
• Of 75 historical villages
• Dislocation of 20000 People
• Indirect effect on 200
• Villages and 50000

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Discontinuation of walk Ways

• Increased women workload
• Damage to Mosques
• Damage to Roads, Electricity
• Water Supply

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End of 5000 Year Old History

• Burying the 5000 old
• History Site of Amri
• Future Threat to the
• Shrine of Qaladar Shahbaz
• Danger to Fateh Ali Shah (Shrine of Ismailees)

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Snatching Land from Indus River
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Destruction of Ecology/Hill Torrent Management

• Disconnecting Hill
• Torrent From Indus
• Playing with Nature
• Convergence of Nais
• Future Flooding

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Compensation Versus Emotion

• Villages represent cultural emotions
• Historical Right of settled piece of land
• Putting Rupees value to every thing?
• Involuntary Dislocation
• No choice, No land to settle Where to Go?

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Grave Yard of Livelihood Cont.

• Historical Water
• land Rights Versus
• Doctrine of Legality
• Market Value versus Right to
• Live
• Third Major Development in
• Area of 1.5 Km wide

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Grave Yard of Livelihood

• Discontinuation of 100 W/C
• Leaving 50000 acres
• land Uncultivated
• 15000 acres used by Drain
• Discontinuing Aral Wah
• Discontinuation of Inundation
• Water sources and lift irrigation

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Environment Poverty Nexus

• Overflowing and Secondary Salinity
• Declining Quality of Ground Water
• Seepage will cause water logging and Salinity
• Touching Drain to Indus River

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Environmental-Poverty Nexus Cont.

• Seepage and security of KB Feeder
• Water Quality of Kenjhar, Hadero and Haleji
  Lake
• Kotri Industrial Area Effluent
• Sea Intrusion, Devastation for Indus Delta at
  Gharo

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Biological Extinction and Poverty

• Declined water quality in Kenjhar, Haleji and
  Hadero reduce number of migratory birds
• Overflowing of saline water Adding
  Industrial effluent cause harm to fish
• Toxic effluent destroy aquatics life

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Equity

• Benefit of upstream users
• Loss of Downstream users mostly Poor
• Inbuilt inequity in Project Design

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Link of U/S Fresh Water Development and D/S Drains

• Is there any link between
• Fresh water development work at U/S Drainage
  work at D/S
• Who Guarantees completion of work ?
• Will it not end at D/S kotri and dispose in
  Indus?
• What Experiences tell us (LBOD, CRBIP)?

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Goodbye to Indus Delta

• No Fresh Water D/S Kotri
• LBOD on Left Side
• RBOD on Right Side
• What do You Think about
• Indus Delta and Coast from 50 year now?