ISLAMABAD: With the aim to resolve water issues in the country, Federal Minister Planning, Development and Reform Ahsan Iqbal has urged the Ministry of Water and Power to finalise the national water policy in three months.
The minister, while chairing a meeting of the Central Development Working Party (CDWP), said that all relevant government institutions and stakeholders should gear up efforts to finalise the National Water Policy expeditiously keeping in view sensitivity of the water issue. He also stressed the need for involving engineering universities in formulation of water policy.
Ahsan said that water resource management is need of hour because of frequent floods due to climate change. “Whenever the issue of water rights is raised at international forums, the neighbouring country resorts to arguments that Pakistan can’t manage its surplus water,” he pointed out. He said that water issue is of utmost importance for future of country. “The coming generations would not forgive us if we do not take appropriate steps immediately to address water needs of growing urbanization,” he added.
