Dam Funding for Pakistan?


	Dam Funding for Pakistan?

Gul Agha

5-2-2007 11:22 AM

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pakistan, environment

Gul Agha says:

The mega-dams WB has already funded have destroyed the Indus Delta and Mangrove forests, caused sea encroachment displacing 157 villages, blocked silt from reaching downstream to Sindh and rendering millions of acres barren in Sindh.

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