Water Resources Development

Irrigation and Drainage

Environment

Flood Protection

Rain Water Harvesting & Small Dams

Overall

To achieve the National Water Vision and MDGs: By 2025, Pakistan should have adequate water available, through proper conservation and development,. Water supplies should be of good quality, equitably distributed and meet the needs of all users through an efficient management, institutional and legal  system that would ensure the sustainable utilization of the water resources and support economic and social development with due consideration to the environment, quality of life, economic value of resources, ability to pay and participation of all stakeholders.

Sectoral

1. Provide sufficient water for all sub sectors based on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM).
2. Promote water conservation.
3. Ensure effective planning and decision making.
4. Regulate and systematic groundwater abstraction where feasible.
5. Improve water quality.
6. Develop information base.
7. Develop public awareness and understanding of the issues.

1. Increase irrigation efficiency from 40% to 45% to conserve water.
2. Achieve equity in water distribution at all levels.
3. Increase irrigated area for agriculture production and poverty alleviation,  by construction of new schemes.
4. Achieve sustainability including financial sustainability.
5. Promote stakeholder participation, through PIDAs, AWBs and Fos.
6. Reduce waterlogging.
7. Capacity building PID for the changing technology.
8. Asset Management of Irrigation Infrastructure

1. Improve the quality of surface and ground water to acceptable standards by 2025.

1. Place priority for flood protection on areas of major human habitation and economic importance.
2. prepare flood and drought management strategies, especially for major cities, towns and infrastructure and irrigated canal.
3. Promote the delineation of flood risk planning zones to be adopted by all agencies as part of the planning process.

1. Harness unused flood water and runoff from hill torrents.
2. Conservation of rain water.
3. Watershed Management.

Overall

• Formal approval of the strategy by the Provincial Cabinet for its smooth implementation.
• All the stake holders be taken on board including farmers.
• PID to take up the overall implementation of the strategy.

Sectoral

Short Term 2009 to 2011

• Upgrade PMC for integrated water resources planning and project monitoring.
• Promote and support water sector conservation.
• Commit to develop Large and Medium storages
• Prepare water resources master plan
• Undertake feasibility study on public awareness
• Study and develop a water sector management information system (MIS)
• Develop water quality monitoring programme.
• Update feasibility study on ground water potential and prepare regulatory mechanisim.

• Commit to financial sustainability of the irrigation & drainage infrastructure and prepare a plan for this.
• Initiate actions to increase irrigation efficiency to 45% to include addressing improved water management, farmer participation and cost recovery.
• Continue implementation of Institutionsl Reforms initiated under NDP.
• Prepare plan for expansion of irrigated area.
• Prepare/upgrade feasibility studies for small schemes.
• Rehabilitate/improve existing irrigation systems.
• Feasibility Study for establishment of Asset Management System

• Plan a comprehensive water quality management programme
• Develop a major campaign to raise public awareness of the environment.
• Support the studies to determine the volume of flows required downstream Ghazi Barrage.
• Assess the need for incentives to industries to comply with EPA effluent disposal regulations.
• Determine the needs for legislation for regulation of industrial development, enforcement of standards and water abstraction licensing.

• Following the Second Flood Sector Project, implement the proposed Third Flood Sector Project.
• Implementation of the Ten Year Comprehensive Flood Protection Plan for NWFP.

• Conduct Feasibility Study for Small dams & rain water harvesting ponds.
• Implementation of 20 Nos Small Dams Program.
• Prepare plan to harness hill torrent flows.

Medium Term 2012-2016

• Promote and support water conservation
• Implement water resources master plan and begin implementation of storage development.
• Implement public awareness programme.
• Develop MIS
• Implement Water Quality improvement Programme.
• Implement regulatory frame work on ground water potential for its systematic exploitation.
• Integrate water resources development.

• Undertake training/capacity building to strengthen PIDAs and AWBs.
• Initiate pilot projects to evaluate modern irrigation technologies
• Implement modernization of barrages
• Plan increased cropping intensity as new storage comes on line. 
• Implementation of Asset Management

• Implement the national water quality monitoring programme.
• Execute the public awareness campaign on the environment
• Support municipal and industrial waste water control measures.
• Enact new legislation where required.

• Continue Implementation of  Ten Year Comprehensive Flood Protection Plan.
• Plan Flood Sector Four Programme

• Expand the on farm water management programme (OFWM) to Small Dams.

Overall

Overall responsibility for the implementation of the Strategy will be with the Planning & Development Department, Finance Department and Irrigation Department.

Provincial

Planning & Development Department

PID

P&D, EPA and PID

PID

PID

Sector

PID

O&M and Development Wing

PID and EPA

Development Wing

Small Dams Organization

Top Priority

Priority accorded to conservation, modernization of existing infrastructure, small schemes for poverty reduction, intensification of cropping and regulated ground water extraction

Particular emphasis on water quality and pollution control.

Second priority, due to lack of funding.

Top priority

1. Time
2. Slow growth in Water Sector Development
3. Project Implementation difficulties.
4. Finances
5. Capacity Constraints 

1. Poor Project Implementation
2. Scarcity of water
3. lack of consensus and cooperation
4. poor information availability
5. overuse of water in some areas and lack of effort in conservation.
6. design of irrigation of irrigation system
7. Inequitable distribution of water.
8. low cost recovery and poor maintenance.
9. weakness of institutions.
10. lack of stakeholders participation
11. capacity constraints.
12. Finances
13. Consistency and simplification of procurement procedure.

1. Low priority accorded to water quality.
2. inadequate institutional capacity to implement effective pollution control.
3. insufficient funding.
4. Governance problems.
5. Existing legislation is punitive rather than cooperative
6. Planning is poor and tends to be over ambitious
7. poor stakeholder and private sector participation.

1. Lack of support for a realistic and holistic approach to flood protection.
2. Encroachments within rivers and stream due to urbanization.

1. Poor Project Implementation
2. lack of cooperation
3. poor information availability
4. capacity constraints.
5. Finances
6. Consistency and simplification of procurement procedure.
7. Non involvement of OFWM in conversion from Barrani to irrigated agricultures.