Ms. Pauline Seenan, Head Climate and Resilience Group, British High Commission, Islamabad, briefed the participants about the project objectives and focus areas of the project. She discussed briefly about the three components of the project with a special focus on water accounting system at pilot scale in Islamabad and Punjab in line with Pakistan National Water Policy 2018 and early drought warning and crop insurance system (EDWCIS).
Dr. Muhammad Ashraf, Chairman, PCRWR shared his experience and briefed the guests about the PCRWR and IWMI contribution towards the instrumentation of canals by installing telemetry system with the generous funding of USAID. He shared the lesson learned in the flow measurements of main canals and conflicts resolution among the provinces of Pakistan under Water Apportionment Accord 1991. He briefly discussed the DaaS (Data as a Service) concept and he further emphasized the need of building of trust among the provinces and involvement of stakeholders in water distribution. He also described about the ongoing project of PCRWR with CDA in which PCRWR is accounting surface and groundwater balance in the ICT area.
Ms. Sana Zia, UK Development Adviser Punjab, gave a brief about the pilot area of the WRAP and how they are going to implement the project in Punjab.
At the end, Dr. Muhammad Ashraf, Thanked the participants for their visit to PCRWR.