Half cooked and half baked Cakes with toppings of Political Aspirations and Desires can not make projects happen.Tax payers money need be spent on skillfully and scientifically planned projects with a.Setting up of Target Objects , b. Generation of technically feasible options , c. Comparison of financials of technically feasible options and quantitative assessment of fulfilment of objective targets at what estimated CAPEX and OPEX.It is very right to say that all technical options have to be studied in the context of ecological balance.. And the seats of Power may also be reminded that all rivers are aggregated SURFACE RUN OFFs of good quality water --be it rainfall or melting of snow or glaciers..and we have not tried to utilise/ store surface run off which rivers handover to seas/oceans..Rather than creating ponds, lakes, allowing surface run off water time to percolate into acquifers and rather than interlinking tributaries and rivers, we have done our very best to exhaust our ground water and to deplete flows from tributories and river systems and also in failing to protect them from dumping of sewerages and waste water/ effluents -untreated and partially treated....Government departments dominated by Civil Engineers always find it easy to propose Civil structures, be it damns, concrete tanks, channels and canals ..without proper assessments of their real impacts on ecology and with nothing much on Life Cycle costing and Maintenance costs...There are so many options which can be excercised --- and vast technological experiences are very much there with Germans, British, Australians, US and Japanese Engineering Firms and rather than a knee jerk reactions, we need to make a wholistic master plan -- starting with Ganges and sure, it will have implications and compulsions to also objectively plan the same for All other Rivers of India...
Published by LOKESH PUNJ, A B.TECH. Agr Engg, PGDM-SPA IIMA (1977-9) 25 yrs in Water Piping / Irrigation/Infra Projects
Half cooked and half baked Cakes with toppings of Political Aspirations and Desires can not make projects happen.Tax payers money need be spent on skillfully and scientifically planned projects with a.Setting up of Target Objects , b. Generation of technically feasible options , c. Comparison of financials of technically feasible options and quantitative assessment of fulfilment of objective targets at what estimated CAPEX and OPEX.It is very right to say that all technical options have to be studied in the context of ecological balance..
And the seats of Power may also be reminded that all rivers are aggregated SURFACE RUN OFFs of good quality water --be it rainfall or melting of snow or glaciers..and we have not tried to utilise/ store surface run off which rivers handover to seas/oceans..Rather than creating ponds, lakes, allowing surface run off water time to percolate into acquifers and rather than interlinking tributaries and rivers, we have done our very best to exhaust our ground water and to deplete flows from tributories and river systems and also in failing to protect them from dumping of sewerages and waste water/ effluents -untreated and partially treated....Government departments dominated by Civil Engineers always find it easy to propose Civil structures, be it damns, concrete tanks, channels and canals ..without proper assessments of their real impacts on ecology and with nothing much on Life Cycle costing and Maintenance costs...There are so many options which can be excercised --- and vast technological experiences are very much there with Germans, British, Australians, US and Japanese Engineering Firms and rather than a knee jerk reactions, we need to make a wholistic master plan -- starting with Ganges and sure, it will have implications and compulsions to also objectively plan the same for All other Rivers of India...
And the seats of Power may also be reminded that all rivers are aggregated SURFACE RUN OFFs of good quality water --be it rainfall or melting of snow or glaciers..and we have not tried to utilise/ store surface run off which rivers handover to seas/oceans..Rather than creating ponds, lakes, allowing surface run off water time to percolate into acquifers and rather than interlinking tributaries and rivers, we have done our very best to exhaust our ground water and to deplete flows from tributories and river systems and also in failing to protect them from dumping of sewerages and waste water/ effluents -untreated and partially treated....Government departments dominated by Civil Engineers always find it easy to propose Civil structures, be it damns, concrete tanks, channels and canals ..without proper assessments of their real impacts on ecology and with nothing much on Life Cycle costing and Maintenance costs...There are so many options which can be excercised --- and vast technological experiences are very much there with Germans, British, Australians, US and Japanese Engineering Firms and rather than a knee jerk reactions, we need to make a wholistic master plan -- starting with Ganges and sure, it will have implications and compulsions to also objectively plan the same for All other Rivers of India...