ISLAMABAD - The devastating flood events, faced by Pakistan continuously for six years from 2010 to 2015, caused annually about 22.7 MAF water loss with 54.5 MAF during super flood 2010 and 36.3 MAF during year 2015. Post Tarbela annual average of escapages below Kotri is 28.56 MAF. These ...

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar has urged the provinces to focus on water management. Addressing a ceremony in Quetta, he said if due attention is not paid to water crises, the issue might get worsen. He said overseas Pakistanis have donated 7.9 million ponds to the dam fund so ...

UNITED NATIONS:United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres has stressed the importance of water management, echoing a global water crisis report presented to him by a high-level panel, Xinhua reported here on Thursday. "I will ask the whole of the UN system but also all member states to ...

ISLAMABAD: (APP) Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan, Margaret Adamson and Federal Minister for Defence Production and Minister for Science and Technology, Rana Tanveer Hussain, Tuesday launched the Australian Government’s AUD 15 million Water Programme in Pakistan.The programme aims at to ...

D.I KHAN: (APP) Gomal Zam Command Area Development Project being executed at a cost of Rs 3.30 billion would bring green revolution in the area, says director of the project Rab Nawaz.Briefing a meeting held recently, the director said under the project as many as 393 water channels, having total ...

FAISALABAD: (APP) The Punjab government has allocated Rs 4 billion for reforms and improvement of Irrigation system in the province.A spokesman of the Water Management Department said here on Monday that 12000 water channels would be brick lined besides introducing drip irrigation system for 15000 ...

LAHORE (APP): Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA), and the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding for mutual cooperation in conducting joint training and research for addressing water issues and quality challenges through ...

ISLAMABAD, May 10 (APP): Director US Bureau of Land ManagementProfessor Patrick Shea Tuesday said Pakistan needed to formulate and implement an effective management policy for its water resources.In his lecture, delivered at Sustainable Development Policy Institute(SDPI) here on the `Relevance of ...