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Sunday, July 19, 2009

[mukto-mona] FW: [Siraat-al-Mustaqeem] Lets join hands and Build Dams...lets save the world from destruction




         From our Paki brothers ... ...
 
[I am dead against building dams.  Wind and solar energy supplies do not disturb nature.  But impounding a river causes huge environmental damage that is unretrievable.
 
        Notice, how the Paki brother bashes the 'gorra' but is keen to imitate their past actions which devastated their landscape and nature!   -- farida majid]
 

Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 05:28:31 -0700
Subject: [Siraat-al-Mustaqeem] Lets join hands and Build Dams...lets save the world from destruction

 
Only the agents of gorras who have nothing else but to undermine the country's development or are dumb and ignorant can write something against dams...
 
Building dams is the world's best means of water storage, electricity generation, and flood prevention. Without Dams the world would be devasted by floods and its enviornment would be destroyed in totality with the alternative use of fuels to generate our growing needs of electricity.
 
The intelligent countries have invested most heavily in dams which have been around ever since we have seen the civilization. Now we see the environment destroyed by the use of global warming, the cause of which is the fuels we burn to feed our bulbs at homes. This is a crime against humanity.
 
The best and most economical source of power in Pakistan has been DAMS. The one of few intelligent decisions done by our previous governments. The need is to fill the country with dams and not let go waste a single drop of water but through utilizing it. That is the BEST SOLUTION FOR OUR ENERGY AND WATER CRISES. It is dumb to let the heavy rains destroy our farms and lands and then we sit and cry for drought when there is no water. Only the enemies or idiots can propagate such theories, to stand against dams.
 
Few examples of NEW DAMS in the world.
 
Over the past 50 years (since 1959), California has added a whopping 21 million acre-feet of storage, including some of the largest reservoirs in the State. Over the past 40 years (since 1969), we have added over 8,600,000 AF of storage (including massive New Melones Dam). Since 1979, we have added over 1,600,000 acre-feet (including New Spicer Meadows Dam and Warm Springs Dam). Since 1989, we have added over a million acre-feet (including Diamond Valley and Los Vaqueros). And these numbers don't include new groundwater storage systems or the vast "reservoirs" of saved water we've created through conservation and efficiency programs.
 
December 28, 2007 — Home to almost half of the world's 45,000 biggest dams, China has embarked on a push to export its hydropower know-how to developing countries ...
Already home to nearly half of the world's dams, China intends to more than double its hydropower generating capacity by 2020 by adding a series of new dams across the country. More significantly, in recent years, Beijing has been ambitious about financing and building dams, both close to home in Asia as well as in half-a-dozen African countries.
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article25353
 
Comments on environment: (and no one compares what will happen if we stop new dams and add coal burning furnaces to generate electricity! It would be the end of the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
If we now examined those almost two thousand major federal dams, we would be able to find many ways to improve their performance. In many cases, troublesome environmental impacts caused by dams and water projects can be mitigated simply by changing operations--changing the timing of water releases or using modern hydrological analysis to optimize benefits. In some cases modernizing facilities--installing efficient turbines and generators, eliminating wasted water and power, or installing fish ladders--can increase benefits. In a small number of cases those impacts are simply the price paid for the benefits and we either accept the cost or remove the dam.
 
Some facts: Dams are the most reliable and historically proven method to store water for differen purposes:

Remains of water storage dams found in Jordan, Egypt and other parts of the Middle East date back to at least 3000 BC.
Since average construction periods generally range from 5 to 10 years, this indicates a worldwide annual average of some 160 to 320 new large dams per year.
Half the world's large dams were built exclusively or primarily for irrigation, and an estimated 30 to 40% of the 271 million hectares of irrigated lands worldwide rely on dams. Dams are estimated to contribute to 12-16% of world food production.
Hydropower currently provides 19% of the world's total electricity supply, and is used in over 150 countries with 24 of these countries depending on it for 90% of their supply.
 
Only the enemies of the people stand against the dams. The problems cited include displacement of people, and misinformation about ecological damage. Every one knows that nothing is free in the world and one needs to invest and pay. The displaced people need to be adequately compensated. But it does not mean one starts destroying the whole world by buring carbon to produce energy and let the world flood and let the farmers die without water, or through floods. The misinformation spread against dams is used against Pakistan specifically. But it exposes them and their mindset.
 
Lets build dams and save the world from destruction and support our farm lands and our country. develop the energy sources that are economical and environmentally the best. hydroenergy is the cleanest source of producing energy, saving the country from floods, and storing water when in excess and providing it to the farms and nation when there is lack of it. Lets join hands and trample the hurdles that have been errected by ignorant, the agents, the feudals, some politicians and by the enemies.
 
Saleh




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