Water Resources of Pakistan - Issues and Impacts

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 It includes a collection and compilation of unpublished and scattered data from the archives and repositories of various national institutions and organization.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

List of 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.

About the author

Dr Arif Watto got PhD degree from the School of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Western Australia (UWA) and masters degree from the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad-the leading agriculture university in Pakistan. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor at the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad Sub-campus Depalpur, Okara, Pakistan. He has also served at the same position at the Institute of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad and the U.S. Pakistan Centre for Advanced Studies in Agriculture and Food Security (USPCAS-AFS) at the same university. His research areas mainly include water resource management, agricultural and environmental extension. Dr Watto has published in in various international journals such as Journal of Hydrology, Water Policy, Hydrogeology Journal and on a variety of topics related to water resource management, economics and policy.

Michael Mitchell is aResearch Fellow with the Institute for Land, Water and Society (ILWS) at Charles Sturt University in Australia. His expertise is in social dimensions of natural resource management, building on a PhD at ILWS investigating triple bottom line reporting with an irrigation company in NSW, Australia, and an MPhil at Sydney University investigated social and environmental consequences of hydropower development in the Mekong Basin. For the past four years, Dr Mitchell has been employed as part of an Australian government funded project to investigate how groundwater management in Pakistan can be improved, undertaken in collaboration with Pakistan groundwater managers and users. He has published in a wide array of international renown journals, including Society and Natural Resources, Land Use Policy, Journal of Environmental Management, and Journal of Hydrology. 

Safdar Bashir is an Assistant professor at the Department of Soil and Environmental Science, University ofAgriculture, Faisalabad, Sub-campus Depalpur, Okara, Pakistan. He holds his PhD (Dr. rer. nat) in Geoscience from Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen and postdoc from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He is an Environmental Geo-scientist with a passion for the technical aspects of encouraging sustainable resource use and stewardship of the environment. His main research focus is addressing the soil and water contamination and their sustainable management. He has already published various book chapters and scientific publications with renowned publishers including Springer, Elsevier, American Chemical Society etc. along with short correspondence/communications with Science and Nature publishers.

Product details

• Assisted by: Safdar Bashir (Editor), Michae Mitchell (Editor), Michael Mitchell (Editor), Muhammad Arif Watto (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2021
• EAN: 9783030656782
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3065678-2
• No. of pages: 318
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 20 mm x 235 mm
• Illustrations: XVI, 318 p. 72 illus., 68 illus. in color.
• Series: World Water Resources
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology