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Managing Shared Basins: Perspectives on Pakistan's Water Resources

This talk series explores various aspects of Pakistan's water resources, including surface water, groundwater, water governance, climate change, and transboundary issues. It examines the challenges and opportunities for sustainable cities, transboundary water resource governance, water scarcity and quality, the role of the private sector, and non-agricultural water use. The series aims to provide insights and contribute to the future research agenda and policy direction for Pakistan's water challenges.

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Managing Shared Basins: Perspectives on Pakistan's Water Resources

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  1. Managing Shared Basins LEAD Perspective Series By Fazilda Nabeel February 26, 2019

  2. Perspective Talk Series • Characterizing Pakistan’s water resources • Micro and macro • Rural and urban • Interprovincial and transboundary • National and regional • Water Resource Governance • Climate Change – Water Supply & Demand • Surface Water • Ground Water- Quality Degradation, Quantity and Governance

  3. Significance • Expansive nature of water-related issues • Immediacy and innovation in addressing resource governance • Shared river basins- governance and policy • Priorities and action

  4. Key Themes Sustainable Cities: Urban Waterscapes, Landscapes, & Climate Resilience Climate Change & Pakistan’s Water Challenge Trans Boundary Water Resource Governance Water Scarcity &Quality Groundwater Governance The Role of the Private Sector in Water Resource Development - and Conservation? Non-Agricultural Water Use and Implications for Pakistan’s Water Future

  5. 1. Sustainable Cities Politics of urban waterscapes and landscapes (Daanish Mustafa – Talk 1) Climate change exacerbates the challenge of building resilience in expanding urban areas (John Mathews – Talk 19)

  6. 2. Climate Change & Pakistan’s Water Challenge Effect of Climate Change on Water Resource Availability: • Estimating effects of climate change on sectoral water demand (ZaighamHabib and Pervaiz Amir- Talk 4) • Challenges to the future of climate compatible development in Pakistan- (Pakistan Met Department- Talk 8) • Implications of global climate negotiations for Pakistan & Improving measures to address the impact of floods (Dr. ParvaizNaim - Talk 9)

  7. 3. Transboundary Water Resource Governance Benefit Sharing on Kabul River Basin • Feasibility & geopolitical importance of benefit sharing on KRB (Hassan Khan and Ashraf Mahmood – Talk 2) • Legal Roadmap for Pak-Afghan Cooperation (Rafay Alam – Talk 4) • Historical attempts at cooperation on the KRB (Shafqat Kakakhel- Talk 10) • Inland Navigation potential of Kabul River (Hassan Abbas- Talk 15) • International Best Practice Case Studies to model cooperation on KRB (Mr. William Doan-Talk 16) • Lessons from the Turkey-Armenia Water Agreement (Professor Saleem Ali and Mr. Mehmet Altingoz- Talk 21)

  8. 3. Transboundary Water Resource Governance Interprovincial Water Issues Significance & definitional features of the 1991 Water Accord on sharing the Indus Waters between Pakistan’s four provinces, critical role of IRSA. (Engr. Shafqat Masood- Talk 5) 1991 Accord- Room for interpretation & inter-provincial complexities (Dr. Arif Anwar)

  9. 4. Water Scarcity & Quality • Shifting from water scarcity to surplus: • social behavior and attitudes • technology and innovation • governance and management (Dr. Afreen Siddiqi- Talk 20) • Learning from Cape Town’s experience (Ricardo Sandoval –Talk 14) • River Pollution from toxic contaminants disposal in rivers and drainage canals– (Dr Muhammad Ashraf- Talk 13)

  10. 5. Groundwater Governance Pakistan is the fifth largest abstractor of groundwater globally Largest Exporter of groundwater in the world Challenges of groundwater governance

  11. 6. Role of the Private Sector Opportunities and challenges for private sector investment in hydropower in the Upper Indus Basin (Mr. Jahanzeb Murad – Talk 23) Policy bottlenecks for private hydropower investment (Waqar Ahmad Khan- Talk 26) Leveraging the corporate sector in environmental conservation and sustainable production process – (Abul Fazal Rizvi – Talk 24)

  12. 7. Non-Agricultural Water Use and Implications for Pakistan’s Water Future Industry consumes only 2-3% of the fresh water resources of Pakistan, yet it contributes to substantial amount of the pollution, leading to contaminate 20-30% of freshwater resources. Mr. Azher uddin

  13. Key Messages & Future Research Agenda Highlight and debate Pakistan’s water issues Inputs for Pakistan’s future water policy space Bring forward necessary aspects- urban waterscape, non-agricultural water use, role of private sector Set the tone for policy direction for water-energy, climate change & mitigation

  14. Thank You!

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