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Pak must save water going into the sea IN his column,
“Inside Pakistan”, Syed Nooruzzaman has referred to the water war (Jan 20). Nawa-i-Waqt, the Pakistani newspaper, cannot blame India for the abnormal water-table decline in and around Lahore city. The problem is mainly due to the proliferation of tube wells and the absence of recharge measures to counteract the excessive withdrawal. This phenomenon is not unusual and the water decline on the east of the Wagha border is much greater. As regards the sharing of river waters between India and Pakistan under the Indus Water Treaty (1960), Nawa-i-Waqt should refer to my article “Should Kalabagh Dam on River Indus be built?” in Engineering News: The Journal of the Pakistan Engineering Congress (Vol 42, No. 2, July-Sept 2004).
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