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Soomro stresses need for growing awareness about water use

ISLAMABAD : Water is a basic human need and essential for survival, so its proper use is essential to meet the genuine demands of the society.

This was stated by chairman PARC, Dr. Badruddin Soomro, while addressing a 'National Workshop on pro-poor intervention strategies in irrigated Agriculture organized by International Water Management Institute.

The chairman stressed the need for growing awareness among public about importance of water in national life and how to improve its management practices for high yield and secure food for ever increasing population. He said that effective strategies should be evolved to cope with the events of excess water in case of Floods as well as shortfall of water.

Other speakers including intizar Hussain senior economist IWMI and Mashook Ali shah country Director ADB also presented their paper, on "Agriculture water and poverty linkage".

They said that water is one of several natural resources upon which poor people depend for their livelihood and rural poverty problem could be solved through improving poor's access to water which play powerful role in Food production, hygiene, sanitation, Food Security and environment. They said that irrigation water is a vital source for many production and livelihood activities and important socio economic good for the poor so their access to it is vital to alleviate poverty.

The pro poor international strategies in irrigated Agriculture in Asia is an ADB financed collaborative project being led by the international water management institute (IWMI), columbo Srilanka.

The research task under the project is aimed to determine the potential interventions in the management of irrigation that will have the greatest benefit to the poor specially rural population. The project is being implemented in Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and Vietnam. The IWMI has directed its attention to this region in view of increasing trend in poverty and to focuss on linkage between water and poverty and to identify pro-poor interventions.

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	Soomro stresses need for growing awareness about water use ISLAMABAD : Water is a basic human need and essential for survival, so its proper use is essential to meet the genuine demands of the society. This was stated by chairman PARC, Dr. Badruddin Soomro, while addressing a 'National Workshop on pro-poor intervention strategies in irrigated Agriculture organized by International Water Management Institute. The chairman stressed the need for growing awareness among public about importance of water in national life and how to improve its management practices for high yield and secure food for ever increasing population. He said that effective strategies should be evolved to cope with the events of excess water in case of Floods as well as shortfall of water. Other speakers including intizar Hussain senior economist IWMI and Mashook Ali shah country Director ADB also presented their paper, on "Agriculture water and poverty linkage". They said that water is one of several natural resources upon which poor people depend for their livelihood and rural poverty problem could be solved through improving poor's access to water which play powerful role in Food production, hygiene, sanitation, Food Security and environment. They said that irrigation water is a vital source for many production and livelihood activities and important socio economic good for the poor so their access to it is vital to alleviate poverty. The pro poor international strategies in irrigated Agriculture in Asia is an ADB financed collaborative project being led by the international water management institute (IWMI), columbo Srilanka. The research task under the project is aimed to determine the potential interventions in the management of irrigation that will have the greatest benefit to the poor specially rural population. The project is being implemented in Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and Vietnam. The IWMI has directed its attention to this region in view of increasing trend in poverty and to focuss on linkage between water and poverty and to identify pro-poor interventions.
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