Gomal Damaan Area Water Partnership GDAWP

1. "Promoting IWRM Gomal Damaan Area " Bringing interested citizens and water users together, providing a neutral forum focusing on water related issues and challenges, and becoming a part of the solution for long-term water quality improvement and conservation in a non-regulatory way, in this connection improving water quality and quantity providing for a clean and healthy future for ourselves and future generations. Gomal Damaan Area Water Partnership GDAWP

2. Gomal Damaan Area Water Partnership GDAWP MISSION • Gomal Damaan Area Water Partnership (GDAWP) is dedicated to building and sustaining local capacity through education, assistance, and advocacy in order to enhance, restore, and protect the natural resources of the Gomal Damaan Area watershed. • Gomal Damaan Area Water Partnership (GDAWP) is also working to address the environmental and natural resource issues, along with other political and social obstacles affecting the Gomal River and Indus River watershed. • Enthusiastic and energetic members of steering committee Gomal Damaan Area Water Partnership (GDAWP) are committed and devoted to bring Global Water Partnership, Pakistan Water Partnership along with other national and International organizations / institutions related with water issues to one framework for action to the ultimate satisfaction of stakeholders.

3. Gomal Damaan Area Water Partnership GDAWPGOALS • Gomal Damaan Area Water Partnership (GDAWP) is committed to bringing greater public awareness to the water problems facing society today. • Gomal Damaan Area Water Partnership (GDAWP) support the sustainable development and management of water resources at all levels.

4. Introduction & Presentation on GDAWP In the area many organization working on water related projects, but we are not eying towards preservation and storage of water. He elaborated that the area of DAMAAN situated in the surroundings of Dera Ismail Khan & TANK, where no other sources of irrigation has except rain fed and spate irrigation. The area of DAMMAN is in worst condition and extremely vulnerable regarding drinking water, even the community is bound to use the ponds water which is highly contaminated due to animal fasces. The area is facing extreme water scarcity. In this way there is outmost need to work on this subject.

5. Gomal Damaan Area Water Partnership GDAWP CHALLENGESWater is crucial for food security and human well being. Lack of access by the poor to adequate, safe and reliable supplies of water, and safe sanitation limits options to improve their livelihoods. Climate change is one of the most formidable challenges faced by the global community. Urbanisation, demographics, environmental degradation and lack of essential services also place huge demands on water managers. Without prompt action, such challenges may trigger conflicts.

6. Gomal Damaan Area Water Partnership GDAWP COMMITMENT The Gomal Damaan Area Water Partnership (GDAWP) steering committee membership represents a diverse group of stakeholders from non - profit organizations and community groups to governmental agencies. Partners in this combined effort are: Water security is the cornerstone of economic growth. It cuts across a wide range of sectors agriculture, industry, mining, energy, domestic supplies, health, and education. • Sustainable development will not happen without improvements in water resources management. The risk of climate change exacerbates the situation because water is the primary medium through which climate change will threaten the livelihoods and well-being of societies. Investing in water management contributes right now to poverty reduction and longer term to climate resilience and sustainable development.

7. A Major Developmental Challenge for the 21st Century It is a fact that water security is a major developmental challenge for the 21st century, throughout the world the water table is going down. Today around 3800 km3 of fresh water is withdrawn annually from the world’s lakes, rivers, and aquifers. This is twice the volume extracted 50 years ago. In both the cases human factor is crucial. According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) water use has raised six fold since 1900, more than double the rate of population growth. With the world's population projected to top 8 billion by 2025 from 5.7 billion now, freshwater supplies will not be able to keep pace with rate of growth in population. Even conservative estimates indicate that the population of Pakistan will grow to 208 million by the year 2025. About 50 per cent of the population will be living in the urban areas thus exerting additional pressure on the already strained existing facilities. Situation at present is very precarious due to our typical lethargic policies. Our political leadership must wake up before it is too late. An ambitious study conducted by Carnegie Corporation of New York USA projected Pakistan as severely water scarce country in South Asia in 2025. Pakistan will require 335 billion cubic meters of water whereas it will have no more than 233 billion cubic meters available. We need to appeal to the government and all non-government organizations to come forward and formulate united efforts to put an end to shortfall of 102 billion cubic meters.

8. Gomal Damaan Area Water Partnership GDAWP CHALLENGES Water is crucial for food security and human well being. Lack of access by the poor to adequate, safe and reliable supplies of water, and safe sanitation limits options to improve their livelihoods. Climate change is one of the most formidable challenges faced by the global community. Urbanisation, demographics, environmental degradation and lack of essential services also place huge demands on water managers. Without prompt action, such challenges may trigger conflicts.

9. Gomal GOMAL, or Gumal, the name of a river of Afghanistan, and of a mountain pass on the Dera Ismail Khan border of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa KPK Province of British India. The Gomal river, one of the most important rivers in Afghanistan, rises in the unexplored regions to the south-east of Ghazni. Its chief tributary is the Zhob. Within the limits of British territory the Gomal forms the boundary between the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa KPK Province and Baluchistan, and more or less between the Pathan and Baluch races. The Gomal pass is the most important pass on the Indian frontier between the Khyber and the Bolan. It connects Dera Ismail Khan with the Gomal valley in Afghanistan, and has formed for centuries the outlet for the povindah trade.

10. Gomal Until the year 1889 this pass was almost unknown to the AngloIndian official; but in that year the government of India decided that, in order to maintain the safety of the railway as well as to perfect communication between Quetta and the Punjab, the Zhob valley should, like the Bori valley, be brought under British protection and control, and the Gomal pass should be opened. After the Waziristan expedition of 1894 Wana was occupied by British troops in order to dominate the Gomal and Waziristan; but on the formation of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa KPK Province in 1901 it was decided to replace these troops by the South Waziristan militia, who now secure the safety of the pass.

11. Gomal GOMAL: designation of four geographical entities; A sub-province (Woloswali) and village in the Paktia province of eastern Afghanistan; a river originating in the Ghazni province and flowing southeast through the Waziristan tribal agency and the Dera Ismail Khan district in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa KPK Province of Pakistan; and of a passage linking the eastern foothills of the Soleiman mountain range with the Indus plains. Gomal, the southernmost district of Paktia, covers an area of 1,850 square miles. In the late 19th century, it included about sixty villages, six of which had more than 500 inhabitants. Estimates of its settled rural population then ranged from 10,300 to 16,800. The Gomal River flows north of the Gomal mountain pass, which is also known as the Ghwalari Pass, a term probably derived from the Pashtu word "Ghwa" (cow) and "lara" (road). The pass is approximately 13.5 miles long with width narrowing in places to 10 feet.

12. Gomal The Gomal Pass is bounded by the caravan stages of Pasta Kats and Gatkay in the west and Maekinay and Rammu on its east. Its many outlets and access points and proximity to other passages, such as the Zao and Danasar, have created confusions similar to those concerning distinctions between the Khyber, and Tartara passes between Peshawar and Jalalabad. The Gomal, Khyber, Kohat, and Bolan passes, and their subsidiary routes, have long been the primary channels of commercial and cultural contact between Persia, India, and Central Asia. An important segment of the Gomal caravan road traverses both the Gomal Pass and the river. The Gomal road is used by nomads whose seasonal migrations carry them between and through South and Central Asia. These Afghan nomad traders are commonly referred to as powindah when associated with the Gomal and Bolan passes, and farther north around and through the Kohat and Khyber corridors.

13. Gateway to South Asia (Damaan) The Western Ranges of Himalayan Mountains turn southwards and carve out a valley all along the River Indus in the east and Suleiman ranges in the west. It is located between 70' – 72' E and 32' N. Damaan is located in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa KPK Province, Pakistan. Damaan is the floodplains region in the western central Pakistan. Gigantic hill-torrents occasionally pouring down from its western Sulaiman Mountain Range and finally joining the mighty Indus River in the east played vital role in making its diverse geographies and determining its histories and cultures. Damaan was once considered to be the gateway to South Asia owing to its traversable numerous mountain passes connecting Afghanistan and the Central Asia to Pakistan.

14. Damaan Area Invaders and traders continued to pass through Damaan for centuries before the advent of new transportation and communication technologies. Owing to its geo-political significance and strategic location, Damaan turned to be a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural region. Though Damaan is still predominantly Siraiki speaking region but other major ethno-cultural groups include Punjabis, Balochs and Pakhtuns. Kulachi, Tank and Dera Ismail Khan are the major cities of the Damaan area. Damaan is confronted with the greatest challenge of its history, the challenge of mega development irrigation projects imposing destruction on local livelihoods and ecology, and violations of rights through very instruments of law themselves.

15. Gomal Damaan Area Generally the socio -economic condition of the people of Gomal Damaan Area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa KPK Pakistan is very poor. They neither can afford nor have an access to the basic amenities of life. Here the literacy rate is abysmally low; the birth rate is very high with soaring rate of crime and unemployment. The debate about water resource management in Pakistan today is primarily a debate between government and stakeholders from Karachi to Khyber. Both are completely perplexed over the ever-increasing water stress in the country. Decision-making has emerged as a big problem. We never felt scarcity of water professionals in the past but today’s emergencies require us to promote water wisdom. During British rule this area was envisaged as the main supplier of wheat and other food crops to the whole of sub-continent.

16. Gomal Damaan Tribal Territories Gomal Damaan Area can play an imperative role in achieving food and water security in Pakistan because it embraces all four seasons. Gomal Damaan Area is the area that mostly consists of Himalayan Mountains in the North and Suleiman ranges in the South. An unwritten and mysterious code of conduct known as tribal system governs the entire area. People living in this area are very diverse in their tribal origin. The differences are so deep that most of all the tribes are always fighting with each other over land, woman and egocentric superiority. Shiranis, Miranis and Ustranas inhabit Baluchistan link of Tribal territories where as Gandapur,Mahsuds, Wazirs. Bhitannis reside in areas along KPK.

17. Gomal Damaan Tribal Territories There are numerous similarities between Gomal Damaan and KPK. The pains and pleasures of the both people are similar. It seems as if their destinies are also the same. The area is very diverse, comprising the high mountains of the Hindu Kush in the North and the Indus plain in the South. KPK covers richly diverse ecological systems. Similarly Gomal Damaan also comprises high mountains and gushing streams. The history of the KPK Province of Pakistan, particularly the Gomal Damaan Area, is full of romance and glorious adventure and numerous legends are woven around the character of its inhabitants. This land of patriotic, virile and hardy mountaineers stood witness to countless historic events.

18. Gomal Damaan Stakeholders Today it is stands as dry and unproductive. National and international attention is needed to focus on this virgin land. It is Gomal Damaan Area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa KPK Pakistan that Dams and Reservoirs are to be built, where population is on increase and is confronting water related stresses. It is in the Gomal Damaan Area that the dilemma of pressing needs and limited resources is faced on a daily basis; it is in the Gomal Damaan Area local leadership is engaged in a continuous debate, on how to overcome underdevelopment and the painful realities of poverty and inequity.

19. Gomal Damaan Stakeholders The strength of stakeholders of GDAWP depends on the constitution of the partnership and its leadership. The interests of religious, governmental and non-governmental organizational partners can play an effective role for achieving success because they promote water related issues at various forums. As we know that the water use is increasing everywhere. The world's six billion inhabitants are already appropriating 54% of all the accessible freshwater contained in rivers, lakes and underground aquifers. By 2025 humankind's share will be 70%. This estimate reflects the impact of population growth alone. Because 70% of the Earth is covered with water, it is called the “Blue Planet.” Yet only 2.5% of the world’s water is fresh, while 97.5% is oceans. And only 0.3% of this fresh water is available from rivers, lakes and water reservoirs, 30% from the ground water while the rest is stored in distant glaciers, ice sheets, mountains areas—all places that we can hardly access. If per capita consumption of water resources continues to rise at its current rate, humankind could be using over 90% of all available freshwater within 25 years, leaving just 10% for all other living beings. Currently, on a global basis, 69% of all water withdrawn for human use on an annual basis is soaked up by agriculture (mostly in the form of irrigation); industry accounts for 23% and domestic use (household, drinking water, sanitation) accounts for about 8%. These global averages vary a great deal between regions.

20. Gomal Damaan Area Today it is stands as dry and unproductive. National and international attention is needed to focus on this virgin land. It is Gomal Damaan Area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa KPK Pakistan that Dams and Reservoirs are to be built, where population is on increase and is confronting water related stresses. It is in the Gomal Damaan Area that the dilemma of pressing needs and limited resources is faced on a daily basis; it is in the Gomal Damaan Area local leadership is engaged in a continuous debate, on how to overcome underdevelopment and the painful realities of poverty and inequity. The strength of stakeholders of GDAWP depends on the constitution of the partnership and its leadership. The interests of religious, governmental and non-governmental organizational partners can play an effective role for achieving success because they promote water related issues at various forums.

21. Water Problems in the Gomal Damaan Area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa KPK Pakistan. This serious challenge is knocking at the doors of all developing countries and Pakistan is no exception. Poverty in Pakistan in general and in the Gomal Damaan Area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa KPK Pakistan in particular is due to mismanagement of water resources. This horrible scenario can be avoided and living conditions of all people can be reinforced to sustainable levels of comfort, health and well being of the people by improving our knowledge about water. It can be achieved through coordinated and integrated efforts of all concerned people to manage water resources more efficiently in the region. Water management in the Gomal Damaan Area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa KPK Pakistan has always been a serious problem. The area commands huge water resources but there are places where water is harmful and places where there is no water for miles.

22. Gomal Damaan Area Water Partnership(GDAWP) Identifies the Following Critical Problems of the Area. • Lack of water wisdom in the schools, colleges and universities. • Water journalism is extremely frail in this area and print media and electronic media are not projecting water as a national priority for budgetary allocations. • There is no place in Gomal Damaan Area of KPK Pakistan where water supplied to common man is safe enough to meet standards of World Health Organization. • There are places in the Gomal Damaan Area of KPK Pakistan where animals and human beings drink the same contaminated and unhygienic water from one pond.

23. Gomal Damaan Area Water Partnership GDAWP Steering Committee (Structure)

24. Gomal Damaan Area Water Partnership GDAWP "Promoting IWRM Gomal Damaan Area "