Pakistan’s Water Economy

Running Dry

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19929631
AutoresJohn Briscoe, Usman Qamar (0000-0003-2361-2061)
Año2008
Fecha de publicación2008-10-01
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
EditorialWorld Bank, Washington, DC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1596/11746
OpenAlexW1545006621
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas18

With an average rainfall of under 240 milli-meters a year, Pakistan is one of the world's most arid countries. The population and the economy are heavily dependent on an annual influx of water into the Indus river system that emanates from the neighboring countries and is mostly derived from rainfall and snow-melt in the Himalayas. Throughout history, people have adapted to the low and poorly distributed rainfall by either living along river banks or carefully husbanding and managing local water resources. In the nineteenth century, the advent of large-scale irrigation technology decisively shifted the balance between man and water. In the twentieth century, Pakistan faced several political and natural challenges to its water economy. There were successfully managed through the Indus water treaty with India and the shrewd application of science, technology, and economics, but Pakistan is once again facing a number of very serious water-related threats to its survival

Agriculture · Archaeology · Arid · Civilization · Economics · Geography · Indus · Irrigation · Population · Scarcity · Water resource management · Water resources · Water scarcity · Water supply · Ecology · Environmental Engineering · Environmental Science · Geology · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Transboundary Water Resource Management · Water resources management and optimization