OVERARCHING ELEMENTS

 

The Pakistan Water Vision has as its overall objective the attainment of a status in which water resources development and management is integrated and sustainable. For this purpose the formulation of FFA provides the opportunity of putting into practice the accepted principles of integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and the concept to managing water at the basin level.

 

 

IWRM does not merely represent the integration of the different uses that are made of water (irrigation, drinking water, industrial use, the ecological function of water etc.) to take account of the way they influence each other. It is a concept that is much broder and which aims at establishing a sound basis for sustainable water use taking into consideration all the social and economic factors -- Governance Institutions, Management Instruments,  Financial aspects, Technologies, Research requirements, Capacity Building and Participation of all section of the society including women or Mainstreaming of Gender.

 

While for all water related activities, at the sectoral or sub-sectoral level, a holistic approach is required with full cognizance of IWRM, there is a need for an "Umbrella" under which these activities are pursued and which provides the guiding beacon. This aspect has been treated here, as the overarching elements, confined to those elements which are most relevant.