Water Resources of Pakistan

1. Front Matter

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2. Pakistan’s Water Resources: Overview and Challenges

   • Muhammad Arif Watto, Michael Mitchell, Taimoor Akhtar

   Pages 1-12

3. Pakistan’s Water Resources: From Retrospect to Prospect

   • James L. Wescoat Jr., Abubakr Muhammad, Afreen Siddiqi

   Pages 13-36

4. Pakistan’s Transboundary Water Challenge

   • Fazilda Nabeel, Muhammad Jehanzeb Masud Cheema

   Pages 37-55

5. Water Security in Pakistan: Availability, Accessibility and Utilisation

   • Taimoor Akhtar, Hassaan F. Khan, Daanish Mustafa

   Pages 57-78

6. Climate Change in the Mountains of Pakistan and its Water Availability Implications

   • Muhammad Naveed Anjum, Muhammad Jehanzeb Masud Cheema, Muhammad Zia ur Rahman Hashmi, Muhammad Azam, Arslan Afzal, Muhammad Wajid Ijaz

   Pages 79-94

7. Pakistan’s Water Resources in the Era of Climate Change

   • Ghulam Hussain Dars, Bakhshal Khan Lashari, Mehran Sattar Soomro, Courtenay Strong, Kamran Ansari

   Pages 95-108

8. Unlocking Economic Growth Under a Changing Climate: Agricultural Water Reforms in Pakistan

   • Stephen Davies, William Young

   Pages 109-131

9. Sustainability Analysis of Irrigation Water Management in Punjab, Pakistan

   • Muhammad Abid, Mohsin Hafeez, Muhammad Arif Watto

   Pages 133-154

10. Examining Irrigated Agriculture in Pakistan with a Water-Energy-Food Nexus Approach

    • James L. Wescoat Jr., Waqas Ahmed, Steven Burian, Jehangir F. Punthakey, Ayesha Shahid

    Pages 155-183

11. Groundwater Crisis: A Crisis of Governance?

    • Fazilda Nabeel

    Pages 185-208

12. Spatial Variability of Groundwater Storage in Pakistan

    • Kamal Ahmed, Muhammad Arif Watto, Shamsuddin Shahid, Nadeem Nawaz, Najeebullah Khan

    Pages 209-223

13. Impacts of Water Quality on Human Health in Pakistan

    • Safdar Bashir, Zubair Aslam, Nabeel Khan Niazi, Muhammad Imran Khan, Zhongbing Chen

    Pages 225-247

14. Improving Water Management in Pakistan Using Social-Ecological Systems Research

    • Michael Mitchell, Catherine Allan, Jehangir F. Punthakey, C. Max Finlayson, Mobushir R. Khan

    Pages 249-271

15. A Roadmap for a Comprehensive Water Resources Forecast System for Pakistan

    • Thomas E. Adams III

    Pages 273-302

16. Ways Forward to Improve Water Security in Pakistan

    • Stephen Davies, Muhammad Arif Watto, Erum Sattar

    Pages 303-318

This book presents the first comprehensive assessment of water resources in Pakistan including surface water resources and groundwater resources. It gives a detailed overview of issues and challenges related to water which have not been adequately addressed e.g. water resource vulnerability to climate change, groundwater depletion and contamination, and water governance etc. It includes a collection and compilation of unpublished and scattered data from the archives and repositories of various national institutions and organization.

Given the literature dearth, this book will not only be a comprehensive assessment of water resources in Pakistan but can also can as outstanding textbook on water resource management in Pakistan. It will attract a great range of readership including water specialists, researchers, undergraduate and post graduate students and policy makers from Pakistan as well as from overseas.

• Groundwater Depletion
• Groundwater Governance
• Irrigation in Pakistan
• Transboundary Water Policy
• Water and Climate Change
• Water Pollution
• Water Scarcity
• Water Security
• Water Use Practices
• Waste Water Treatment
• hydrogeology
• water quality and water pollution
• water and health
• water policy

• University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Sub-campus Depalpur, Okara, Pakistan

  Muhammad Arif Watto

• Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, Albury, Australia

  Michael Mitchell

• Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, Ghazi University, D.G Khan, Punjab, Pakistan

  Safdar Bashir

Dr Arif Watto got PhD degree from the School of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Western Australia (UWA) and masters degree from the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad-the leading agriculture university in Pakistan. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor at the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad Sub-campus Depalpur, Okara, Pakistan. He has also served at the same position at the Institute of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad and the U.S. Pakistan Centre for Advanced Studies in Agriculture and Food Security (USPCAS-AFS) at the same university. His research areas mainly include water resource management, agricultural and environmental extension. Dr Watto has published in in various international journals such as Journal of Hydrology, Water Policy, Hydrogeology Journal and on a variety of topics related to water resource management, economics and policy.

Michael Mitchell is aResearch Fellow with the Institute for Land, Water and Society (ILWS) at Charles Sturt University in Australia. His expertise is in social dimensions of natural resource management, building on a PhD at ILWS investigating triple bottom line reporting with an irrigation company in NSW, Australia, and an MPhil at Sydney University investigated social and environmental consequences of hydropower development in the Mekong Basin. For the past four years, Dr Mitchell has been employed as part of an Australian government funded project to investigate how groundwater management in Pakistan can be improved, undertaken in collaboration with Pakistan groundwater managers and users. He has published in a wide array of international renown journals, including Society and Natural Resources, Land Use Policy, Journal of Environmental Management, and Journal of Hydrology. 

Safdar Bashir is an Assistant professor at the Department of Soil and Environmental Science, University ofAgriculture, Faisalabad, Sub-campus Depalpur, Okara, Pakistan. He holds his PhD (Dr. rer. nat) in Geoscience from Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen and postdoc from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He is an Environmental Geo-scientist with a passion for the technical aspects of encouraging sustainable resource use and stewardship of the environment. His main research focus is addressing the soil and water contamination and their sustainable management. He has already published various book chapters and scientific publications with renowned publishers including Springer, Elsevier, American Chemical Society etc. along with short correspondence/communications with Science and Nature publishers.

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