Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), Pakistan team visited PCRWR, Headquarters, Islamabad. The agenda of the meeting was to brief the ADPC team on PCRWR research activities. Dr. Muhammad Ashraf, Chairman, PCRWR welcomed the guests and briefly presented the mandate, research areas, ongoing projects and technologies introduced by PCRWR in water sector to combat water scarcity in the country. Chairman PCRWR also described different areas of research where both organizations can work together.
Lt. Gen (R) Nadeem Ahmed, National advisor, APDC, applauded different initiatives of PCRWR to address the issues related to water sector and showed his great interest to work in the collaboration in the light of PoC signed between the two organizations. Mr. Irfan Maqbool, Director, Risk management, ADPC highly appreciated the work of PCRWR in the country to raise awareness by doing action research in water sector. He also showed his keen interest to work in collaborations with PCRWR for better water governance, rehabilitation of Karezes in Balochistan, groundwater recharge and in the dryland areas in future. The guests also visited the different demonstration models of artificial recharge, rainwater harvesting and different gadgets/instruments installed in the PCRWR, Headquarter, Islamabad.