Existing Water Infrastructure And Why They Didn't Use The canals Until 2 Days Ago

Now we will take a look at what we have already in our water infrastructure and why the canal network isn't being used extensively to distribute flood, why they waited till the 11th hour to release the river excess into the canals near Ravi, CHENAB and Sutlej rivers. With this understanding can we accept the govt's excuses of torrential rains and super flood as reasons for their incompetence?