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The Story Line..

The Indus Basin Irrigation System faces significant challenges due to water scarcity, salinization, and urban pollution, threatening agricultural productivity and livelihoods. This initiative aims to enhance resilience through interdisciplinary research and collaboration among key stakeholders in Pakistan, including government agencies, universities, and international partners. By addressing systemic inefficiencies and leveraging best practices from global successes, we strive to reform water governance, optimize resource use, and empower communities to adapt to changing climatic conditions. Together, we can secure agricultural sustainability for future generations.

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The Story Line..

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  1. The Story Line.. Building the resilience of the Indus Basin Irrigation System and agriculture so that it can be assured for generations to come.

  2. Opportunity Space… • In Pakistan, partnerships exist, legal systems already exist, successes around the world, history in the country, some baseline data, knowledge that current system is inefficient • WLE has international exposure - WLE has a multidisciplinary research group to address issues developing, implementing and executing water, agriculture, energy, agent-based, trade and economy-wide models • Issues cross-cuts all of WLE’s 5 SRPs (irrigated agriculture, rain-fed agriculture, resource use and recovery, basins, and information systems). • Fits into WLE’s framework; and WLE’s work in 7 different basins offers a special opportunity for shared-learning from other regions.

  3. Resilience Challenged • Water is inadequate to meet a cropping intensity between 150%-200%, in 16 million ha. • Secondary salinization is in about 27%. Mostly in Sindh province. • Groundwater levels are falling steadily in Punjab. • Urban effluent disposed along the river. Unacceptable water quality, especially in low flow seasons. • Extreme floods and droughts are common affecting livelihood of the most vulnerable. • Rapid population growth, from 175 million people in 2010 to an estimated 236 million by 2030 and 280 million by 2050

  4. We need answers for the research questions: • How can the irrigation sector reform processes be extended, improved, and gender be empowered to ensure equitable irrigation delivery? • How can we transform the flood water into an opportunity rather than disaster? • What are the appropriate interventions to increase productivity of salinized and waterlogged lands? • How do we reverse land degradation through enhancement of a healthy functioning ecosystem? • How do we arrest groundwater level decline and ensure groundwater withdrawals do not exceed resilience of the aquifers? • What are the cost-effective interventions to minimize water quality deterioration due to waste water disposal into main river bodies? • How can governance enhance the productivity of land, water and eco-system services? • How do we ensure that water and land policy formulation and implementation at various levels is coherent and consistent with the country’s overall development strategy?

  5. Who will join hands? • ARO: MIT, USA • Donors: USAID • Federal Agencies: FFC, WAPDA, IRSA, NDMAs, PDMAs, WASA • Irrigation & Drainage Authorities: Punjab, Sindh and KPk • Irrigation Departments: Punjab, Sindh and KPk • NARES: NARC/PARC, PCRWR, PIDE, SDPI, Ayub research institute, Sindh Agriculture Research Institute, SUPARCO • Private Sector: NesPak, Salient Solutions (Australia) • Universities: Several • WLE Partners: ICARDA, IFPRI, IWMI

  6. Thank You

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