Khawaja Zaheer Ahmed - PDMA

11%. On macro level, this intra-Provincial seasonal disequilibrium
could mislead the political leadership as if Balochistan got extra
water in 2010-11 crop seasons as 2/3 rd of a million population was
close to another economic disaster in the making; the Hon’ble
Court intervened on the interim recommendations of this
Commission and issued directions to complete the rehabilitation of
the damaged Kirthar Canal, in time for Kharif 2011 and for IRSA to
restore normal vital supplies.
c) Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) is a
statutory organisation created as erstwhile West-Pakistan entity
through an Act in 1958 to undertake development works in water
and power sectors, including the Indus Water Treaty of 1960
underwritten by the World Bank as its Guarantor. In July 1970,
Wapda was placed under Federal control and through the 5th
Amendment in the Constitution, the pre-fix ‘West’ was deleted from
its nomenclature in the Fourth Schedule (Act LXII of 1976). The
WAPDA is currently responsible for orderly development and
maintenance of mega water reservoirs only, power sector has been
assigned to PEPCO by a statute. Major dams under WAPDA’s
responsibilities include Mangla dam on river Jhelum and Tarbela
Dam, besides Chashma Barrage on Indus River; these have a
limited capacity to store water [10-15 % of annual water availability]
for twin purposes: Irrigation and power generation. While day to day
regulation of irrigation supplies are made as per IRSA indents,
releases needed for safety of the structures are not subjected to
IRSA mechanism. The WAPDA also assists FFD with rainfall data
from its telemetric gauge stations and flood data from various
locations of the Indus River system. While tracing out the sources
of extraordinary floods, in its submissions Wapda provided a
holistic perspective in the context of regional climatic shift that
generated unusual patterns during the 2010 Flood with potential
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