Integrated Water Management: How to Deal with Household Water Needs

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Integrated Water Management How to Deal with
Household Water Needs

• Jeroen H. J. Ensink

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Irrigation uses

• Agriculture
• Field crops (e.g. cereals, sugar cane, cotton)
• Gardens
• Permanent vegetation
• Livestock incl. chicken and water fowl
• Fisheries
• Aquatic plants
• Other
• Home-based activities (brick making, potteries,
  weaving, dyeing etc.)
• Small-scale industries (tile making, ice factory)
• (eco) tourism
• Religious
• Domestic (Washing, bathing, cooking, drinking)

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Water quality and water availability issues in
Pakistan

• Large-scale irrigation system
• Use of canal water for domestic (laundry) and
  other productive (fisheries) purposes
• Groundwater saline
• Irrigation system only source of water for all
  purposes

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Direct and indirect use of canal water
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Water quality in 10 villages
(Geometric mean number of E. coli / 100 ml, 3273
samples)