Following are the two photos of River Indus at Kotri barrage – taken approximately a year apart. In the first photo you can see people walking on the dry Indus bed and second photo is from 2 days ago where the whole barrage structure is under threat due to super flood here.
(1) June 29, 2009 This photo was part of our post on the Indus Day in 2010 where we wrote about depleting Water Resources of Pakistan. Today this photo seems so unreal!
(2) August 25, 2010. Note the tags with our post today as well as the post on Indus Day are ‘environment’ and ‘disasters’ but within 6 months the disaster has menifested itself in such a starkly opposite form.
Photo of barrage taken head on by blogger Dr Awab Alvi. Much more horrifying
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@ Mr. Daud Yes it wouldn’t have stopped the floods but it certainly would have made a difference do you maths on it first before declaring anyone idiot!
Sad pictures !
Janab, Mr. Vinnie. Look at the photos again
They prove that dams would not have made a difference.
Idiots who think that more dams would have stopped the floods are either lying for political gains or just don’t know what they are talking about.
These images tell a very powerful story. Better than words could have.
That all is a game of nature. We have so much of water these days but not menough dams to store it and utilize it properly.