Interlinking of Rivers: Some Aspects

Things are not going well in the water sector in the country since the past few decades. Every time the country is entrapped with some crisis in the water sector, the Think-Tank of the Ministry of Water Resources (MOWR), apparently the sole custodian (?) of the water wealth of the country, come up with some new strategy or policy or formula or scheme. This new arrangement or scheme is usually projected as more effective and brighter and more striking than the earlier ones being the answer to the emerging crises and ills and adversaries prevailing in the water sector at that time. In the absence of accountability and transparency, the two most important, if not vital and inseparable aspects of development and sustainable growth, a common routine scheme can even be publicized and blown up as a visionary one! The practice has become rather a common way to avoid crisis or to shake-off responsibility, public criticisms and undesirable events and to shift to a new one pushing back or by-passing and/or ignoring the prevailing realities.