manjgu wrote:pankajS...i wish i could sit with u over coffee and explain how India CAN screw pakis with timings of water release. this in fact has been one of the many complaints of NaPakis wrt IWT.
ALL NaPakis used to say India has NO rights on the 3 rivers allocated to them per IWT before the court of arbitration verdict. Napakis claim we are stealing their water which is absurd because India has NO way of making a transfer OUT of the Indus river system and hence all water must necessarily flow to Bakis no matter how many diversions or run-of-the-river projects are constructed. Don't be taken in by their analysis. It is self serving bereft of any truth.
I can list many many things that the napakis say about Indian's right under IWT and about other things some so patently absurd that only someone outsourcing his thinking wholesale would believe.
They do it to constantly reinforce the Bak narrative that India is the eternal enemy and the Bakis the victim. That narrative is an important glue to keep their quam together and counteract their fissiporous tendencies.
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One easy way is > Figure out the total storage that India has developed on the 3 rivers allocated to them and compare it with the total storage capacity of their Mangla and Terbela dams. If the total usable storage capacity in the Baki dams is higher that the total usable *pond* capacity of the Indian ROR project you have your answer.
You start with ALL our ROR *ponds* empty and their Dams full. Now We close all the gates on our projects to cut off the *entire* flow downstream. To compensate the Bakis release an amount equivalent to the loss of upstream flow form their dams into their river/canal systems. You can figure out if their dams will empty first or our ROR projects *ponds* fills up and start overflowing the spillway first. That will conclusively tell you if strategy of emptying and refilling back to the brim the ROR ponds will bring Bakis to their knees. Simple onleeee.
