Team Leader / Water Resources Specialist (International)

Team Leader / Water Resources Specialist (International): The team leader should have at least a bachelor's degree and preferably a master's degree in water resources engineering or a related discipline and 20 years of experience in WRM, water resources planning, water resources assessment and management. 

Project Background

Balochistan is the largest Province of Pakistan with an area of 347,060 sq. km and smallest in term of 04 % of total population of the country. Balochistan has 4.8 million acres of land available for cultivation, of which 34 % is lying barren because of lack of adequate and reliable supply of irrigation water.

Balochistan province generates total surface flood flows of 10.79, 3.25 and 25.23 billion m3 during average, dry and wet years respectively. This indicates an increase of 134% during wet years whereas decrease of 70% during dry years. It, therefore, becomes evident that harnessing of flood flows for, inter-alia, direct irrigation, drinking and recharge purposes offer great potential. Of all the provinces of Pakistan, Balochistan faces significant water and agriculture challenges. 

These challenges may exacerbate due to the changing climate. Due to lack of proper hydromet network estimates of the quantifiable water at different reliability levels are prone to be erroneous and/or unreliable. The Study will help strengthen
Balochistan’s institutional capacity to carryout realistic estimated of the flood and groundwater availability and use and address the issue of exposed climate change impacts and risks; and build climate-resilient and sustainable water resources management mechanisms that apply innovative, high-level Water Resources Information System (WRIS) technology. In addition, a comprehensive GIS based Decision support System will be made available to the technical staff of the Department for estimation of basic hydrologic and hydraulic design parameters for effective and feasible design of water resources systems. Comprehensive training will also be imparted to the relevant staff of the Department for use of such System under the study.

Concern has been growing in recent years regarding the potential impact of climate change on Pakistan’s already stressed water and agriculture resources. Rising temperatures, shrinking glaciers, early snow- and glacier-melt, variability in flows, rise in intense and frequent droughts and floods, rise in sea-level, increasing sea water intrusion, the growing threat of more intense rainfall, and changes in monsoon and winter rainfall patterns are just a few of how climate change is already affecting Pakistan’s hydrologic resources. These risks amplify an already problematic situation given that Pakistan is among the most water-stressed countries in the world. Per capita access to surface and groundwater resources is expected to continue to decline in the decades ahead, driven largely by rapid population growth and urbanization.

The study will comprise of the following components.
MAPPING OF ALL MAJOR WATER INFRASTRUCTURES AND IRRIGATION SYSTEM
Mapping the existing data for all the major water resources infrastructure data i.e. storage reservoirs, weirs, diversion channels and head works, hydro-climate stations and early warning systems etc. These need to be collected for the Balochistan from different government departments and non-government entities. In addition, site-specific surveys need to be conducted for various data collection and validation purposes. Data from satellite imageries also need to be collected and used. All spatial maps should be in GIS interface. Mapping at basin-level need to be done as well as soft and hard copies to be handed over to the client.
Data of all available irrigation systems in Balochistan need to be collected from line departments and consultancy firms. The data will include but not limited to Irrigation Canals (main canals and distributaries), Gross command areas, Culturable command areas, off-take and head-work structures. Lined and un-lined canal systems need to be demarcated. Karezes
and Groundwater dependant schemes need to be digitized and mapped. Rainwater harvesting schemes need to be mapped using DGPS data in GIS. Agricultural data also need to be collected and digitized. Both barani and irrigated agriculture areas need to be mapped.
Mapping at basin-level need to be done as well as soft and hard copies to be handed over to the client.

MAPPING OF GROUNDWATER RESOURCES

MAPPING OF EVAPOTRANSPIRATION AND PRECIPITATION DATA

MAPPING OF FLOOD AND DROUGHT DATA

MAPPING OF SECTORAL WATER USE AND WATER BALANCE.

MAPPING OF CLIMATE CHANGE ASSESSMENT AND ADAPTATION MEASURES.

SEISMOLOGY MAPS FOR BALOCHISTAN.

MAPPING OF FUTURE POTENTIAL AND WATER RESOURCES IN BALOCHISTAN
BASED ON CHANGING CLIMATE AND WATER DEMAND

PREPARATION OF MAPS OF SEDIMENTATION YIELD OF VARIOUS CATCHMENTS

ASSESSMENT OF THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE WATER
INFRASTRUCTURES THROUGH DETAILED SURVEY OF THE BENEFICIARIES TO
AFFECTED

GIS-BASED DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM

TRANSFER OF KNOWLEDGE

TRAINING PROGRAM.