Like its short-term impacts, KBD is going to have a long standing extremely injurious impact on the lives of the people both living in the immediate vicinity of project, as well as in the rest of the country.
The details of these impacts would vary in nature and in magnitude, and will appear in different moments of coming times to have devastating effects on the civilization of this whole region.
Some of the most important long-term impacts of the KBD are discussed below :
Increase in Surface Water Salinity
Flooding in Nowshera Valley
Drainage/Water-logging Problems in Nowshera
Failure of Mardan/Swabi SCARPs
Danger of Shallow Wells in Karak turning Brackish
Effect on "KATCHO" in Sindh
Effect on Mangrove Forests in Sindh
Salt Water Intrusion in Sindh
Problem to Agriculture with Increased Seepage
The Issue of Water Distribution as a Replacement Water
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