FAO develops 5 years water accounts of Indus basin

ISLAMABAD, Jul 5 (APP):Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in collaboration with its local partners have developed comprehensive water accounts of the country for 5 years under its “Water Accounting Project in the Indus basin in Pakistan”.

The FAO was currently implementing a water accounting project in the Indus basin in Pakistan, which was a multi-dimensional project in its scope and introduced state of the art technologies to improve water and land databases, a press release said. 

The water accounting results from the canal command, province and the basin levels will provide much needed water use, productivity and the water stress profiles for the whole basin.

The agriculture water accounting at each canal command includes estimation of actual water use from different sources, productivity of agriculture per unit land and water and the secondary impacts of irrigation like aquifer depletion and drainage needs.