Chairman WAPDA, Gen (r ) Muzammil Hussain explains how Pakistan’s policy failures of the 1980s created the energy challenges the country faces today. He explains why governments jumped into oil and thermal producing power plants as the fastest way to address the power issue. Why the failure to build the Kalabagh dam led to an energy crisis and why the unthinking breakup of WAPDA into three parts is a key factor in Pakistan’s circular debt not under control. He describes how China’s role in the water and power sector has been manifold from finance to human knowledge transfer.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
3:35 - Lack of vision on power development
5:37 - Why Pakistan went for the IPP’s
7:31 - Why didn't we build large dams after Tarbela?
8:28 - What was WAPDA doing at that time?
9:01 - Were DISCO’s not created to improve distribution?
9:58 - Where were these ideas coming from of creating PEPCO, DISCO’s etc?
10:28 - Any foriegn interference?
11:00 - What took so long for Pakistan to build new dams?
12:44 - Why are international institutions no longer interested in funding our dams?
13:16 - Why did we fail to build dams in areas apart from the disputed territory?
14:29 - The drawback of not having enough water storage?
15:00 - Storage capacity of WAPDA?
15:27 - Significance of Chinese cooperation?
16:40 - Chinese help in capacity building?
17:31 - Major Chinese companies working for power development?
18:16 - When will all these projects show results?
18:30 - Pakistan power production
20:38 - How soon can we diversify the sources of power production?
21:46 - Significance of more storage?
22:32 - Significance of planned water release in power production?
23:00 - Lessons we can learn from China in power development?
25:38 - The realistic capacity of water storage that we can build in a decade?
27:40 - Percentage of water that we will be able to store?
27:55 - Percentage of water storage in China?
28:36 - The lessons we can learn from the Chinese in the agricultural usage of water?
29:13 - Why haven't we moved away from flood irrigation?
29:51 - Expectations from PM Imran Khan’s visit to China?
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Najma Minhas is Managing Editor, Global Village Space. She has worked with National Economic Research Associates (NERA) in New York, Lehman Brothers in London and Standard Chartered Bank in Pakistan. Before launching GVS, she worked as a consultant with World Bank, USAID, and FES and is a regular participant of Salzburg Forum. Najma studied economics at London School of Economics and International Relations at Columbia University, NewYork. she tweets at @MinhasNajma.
