Main description:

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 It includes a collection and compilation of unpublished and scattered data from the archives and repositories of various national institutions and organization.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.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Pakistan's Water Resources: Overview and Challenges

Chapter 2 Pakistan's Water Resources: From Retrospect to Prospect

Chapter 3 Pakistan's Transboundary Water Challenge

Chapter 4 Water Security in Pakistan: Availability, Accessibility and Utilisation

Chapter 5 Climate Change in the Mountains of Pakistan and its Water Availability Implications

Chapter 6 Pakistan's Water Resources in the Era of Climate Change

Chapter 7 Unlocking Economic Growth Under a Changing Climate: Agricultural Water Reforms in Pakistan

Chapter 8 Sustainability Analysis of Irrigation Water Management in Punjab

Chapter 9 Examining Irrigated Agriculture in Pakistan with a Water-Energy-Food Nexus Approach

Chapter 10 Groundwater Crisis: A Crisis of Governance?

Chapter 11 Spatial Variability of Groundwater Storage in Pakistan

Chapter 12 Impacts of Water Quality on Human Health in Pakistan

Chapter 13 Improving Water Management in Pakistan Using Social-Ecological Systems Research

Chapter 14 A Roadmap for a Comprehensive Water Resources Forecast System for Pakistan

Chapter 15 Ways Forward to Improve Water Security in Pakistan