Pakistan's Water Economy : Running Dry (The World Bank)
by Briscoe, John; Usman Qamar
Published by : Oxford University Press (Karachi) Physical details: xxx,126 Pages 21x28 cm | PB ISBN:9780195474763. Year: 2006 List(s) this item appears in: Others miscellaneous| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Water sustenance and management are central development challenges facing Pakistan today. This report argues for dramatic changes in policy and approach to enable Pakistan to maintain and build new infrastructure, besides securing the water required for future generations.
Focusing on two basic issues the country's major water-related challenges, and ways of addressing them the report calls for reinvigorated public water policies and institutions to sustain water development and management in the future by:
Exploring the evolution of water management in Pakistan
Describing past achievements and their relevance in the current context
Analyzing existing challenges
Suggesting ways of evolving a sustainable water management system
The report draws heavily on a set of companion reports by Pakistan water experts and policy analysts. These reports are presented in the accompanying CD and provide in-depth analyses of:
The interface between water and agriculture, energy, environment, growth, and poverty
Drinking water, sanitation, drainage and salinity, flood, dams, groundwater, and water balance management
Water-related rights and entitlements, reforms, and resources and institutions.
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