The Pakistan Water Vision 2025

The Pakistan Water Vision, as developed and presented in the FFA, is guided by all the relevant drivers relating to demography (a 48 percent increase in population by 2025, with major shift to urban centers). Technology, Economic and Social Factors, Environment and Governance. It also covers the pertinent elements for a sustainable Water Vision - Welfare of the People and Equity, Economic Growth and Development, Efficient use of Water Resources, Sustainability, Environment, Policy and Institutional Aspects and Increasing Role of the Market.

The Vision presents a scenario for 2025 and as brought out below provides the compelling force for the urgent actions required. 

• Mounting shortfall in food production leading to famine lime conditions.

• Inadequacies in municipal water supply and sanitation leading to the pollution of water resources and deteriorating health standards "Mortality and morbidity rates of the vulnerable sections of the population will increase".

• Depletion of the forest resources, leading to increased soil erosion, sitting of reservoirs and increased variability of flows. Persisting water logging and salinity problems and salt accumulation in soils.

• Surface storage capacities depleted by siltation. Groundwater resources at the brink of exhaustion with sharply declining waterable in Balochistan. little potential for increase in water availability from surface or groundwater sources. 

• Little potential for increase in water availability form surface or groundwater source. 

In the face of this scenario, the vision highlights many issues to be tackled under the heads: Policy and Institutional, Sustainability, Economic Growth & Development and Environmental Aspects.