Due to extensive groundwater development in the recent past, Pakistan now faces enormous challenges of groundwater management as it struggles to ensure food security for its rapidly growing population. These management challenges require a re-balancing of surface and groundwater monitoring object...
Bhatti, Muhammad Tousif
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Anwar, Arif A.
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Aslam, Muhammad
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[Groundwater monitoring and management: status and options in Pakistan]
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Groundwater monitoring and management: status and options in Pakistan
The apportionment of waters of the Indus River System between the provinces of Pakistan is widely hailed as a historic agreement. This agreement (herein referred to as the Accord) was signed into effect in 1991, just over 25 years ago. The Accord lacks a clearly stated objective and hence it is d...
Anwar, Arif A.
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Bhatti, Muhammad Tousif
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[Pakistan’s Water Apportionment Accord of 1991: 25 years and beyond]
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Pakistan’s Water Apportionment Accord of 1991: 25 years and beyond
The Indus Basin Irrigation System suffers significant inequity in access to surface water across its millions of users. Information, i.e., monitoring and reporting of water availability, may be of value in improving conditions across the basin, and we investigated this via an experimental game of...
Shah, M.Azeem A.
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Anwar, Arif A.
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Ringler, Claudia
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[What role can information play in improved equity in Pakistan’s irrigation system?: evidence from an experimental game in Punjab]
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What role can information play in improved equity in Pakistan’s irrigation system?: evidence from an experimental game in Punjab