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They reline the canals, but other than Taunsa barrage it feels like they haven’t put as much effort into new drainage/catchment. Sindh has firmly resisted new u

• alephnerd 4y ago
  That makes sense. There really needs to be more investment in canal infrastructure in Northern Sindh and Southern Punjab. These kinds of floods were common in East Punjab/Himachal/Jammu back in the 70s and 80s (especially the 1988 flood [0]), but a lot of investment was put into meteorological forecasting, drainage, and disaster preparedness in the 90s and 2000s to try and mitigate something like that from happening again. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Punjab_floods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Punjab_floods