Around 3846 scale RWH schemes completed to promote agriculture.

ISLAMABAD -- Ministry of Water Resources has completed around 3,846 small scales Rain Water Harvesting (RWH) schemes, ponds and tanks in the country so far and adopting measures to promote appropriate technologies for water storage in rural as well as urban areas.

Of the total, 3606 schemes have so far been completed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP),180 schemes in Punjab and 60 such schemes in Sindh.

The official statistics highlighting completed and planned schemes in provinces on Tuesday revealed the number of schemes in Punjab was 3980, of which 180 were completed and work in progress on 320 schemes. Moreover, 3480 schemes in Punjab are under the process of approval.

Similarly, the number of schemes in KP was 12,790, of which 9,135 were proposed, 3606 completed and work in progress on 42 schemes.

Similarly, the number of schemes in Sindh was 108, of which 25 were proposed, 60 completed and 23 are

ongoing. The AJK authorities have also submitted 600 RWH schemes to the Federal government for approval.

It has been further revealed that to take stock of the emerging water crisis, the government was promoting appropriate technologies for rainwater harvesting in rural as well as urban areas which was one of the important objectives of the National Water Policy (NWP).

Consistent with NWP, the concept of Rainwater Harvesting is being used in the country for water conservation for crops and livestock as well as groundwater recharge and the countrywide data regarding progress on implementation of various Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) projects in Islamabad Capital Territory Administration (ICT) showed that 69 check dams/RWH ponds etc. have been completed. Currently, 39 RWH schemes are currently in progress in ICT while 57 RWH schemes have been planned for ICT up to the year 2024.

In Sindh province through federal government funding, around 28 small storage/mini dams have been completed, the number of ongoing mini dam projects is 07 while the total storage of the completed mini dams is 166,743 acre-feet (i.e. 0.167 MAF) to irrigate 85,191 acres.

Similarly, the Sindh government under its Annual Development Plan (ADP) built 36 small storage dams/delay action dams, retention weirs and Impervious Sub-Surface Outflow (ISSO) barriers...

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