Workshop on Integrated
Water Resources Management
By Moin Haider Zaidi
Quetta, June
29: The IUCN Pakistan Balochistan Programme
organized a one-day workshop on Integrated Water Resources
Management to introduce the concept of IWRM to mid-level
staff of different stakeholders in water.
The
main Objective of the workshop was to enhance understanding
of the stakeholders in this newly emerging discipline and
to discuss all key aspect of IWRM. IWRM is a systematic
process for the sustainable development, allocation and
monitoring of water resource use in the context of social,
economic and environmental objectives.
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Its basis is that the different uses of water resources such as in agriculture, domestic, industrial and environment/nature are interdependent.
Dr. Abdul Majeed, Head, IUCNP Water Programme was the lead resource person of this workshop. Dr. Muhammad Abdullah, Project Director, PCRWR Quetta, also delivered a lecture on Integrated Groundwater Recharge Enhancement Measures. Twenty five persons from public sector and civil society organizations, journalists and the academia attended the workshop. IWRM tutorial CDs were distributed among the participants as resource and reference material. Participants appreciated IUCNP's efforts towards arranging a workshop on such an important topic and stressed the need to advocate IWRM concepts among the masses and sensitize policy and decision-makers, by organizing workshops on this IWRM subject.
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