AJKIDA |
Azad Jammu and Kashmir Irrigation and Drainage Authority |
ARI |
Agriculture Research Institute |
AZR |
Arid Zone Research |
AUP |
Agriculture University, Peshawar |
AWBs |
Area Water Boards |
AZRC |
Arid Zone Research Centre |
BCIAP |
Baluchistan Community Irrigation and Agriculture Project |
BDA |
Baluchistan Development Authority |
BDW |
Blow-Down |
BHC |
Benzene Hexachloride |
BOD |
Biological Oxygen Demand |
BWA |
Baluchistan Water Authority |
CAD |
Command-Area Development |
CCA |
Cultural Command Area |
CEWRE |
Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Engineering |
CRBC |
Chashma Right Bank Canal |
CSSRI |
Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal, India |
DAS |
Drainage Advisory Service |
DBG |
Drainage Beneficiaries' Group |
DLR |
Directorate of Land Reclamation |
DRC |
Drainage Research Centre |
DRIP |
Drainage and Reclamation Institute of Pakistan |
DTPA |
Di-ethylene Triamine Pentacetic Acid |
DTW |
Deep Tubewells |
EC |
Electrical Conductivity |
ECNEC |
Executive Committee of the National Economic Council |
EIA |
Environmental Impact Assessment |
EKTD |
East Khairpur Tile Drainage |
ENSURE |
Environmentally Sustainable Reuse and Disposal of Drainage Water in Pakistan |
EPA |
Environmental Protection Agency |
EPD |
Environmental Protection Department |
ESP |
Exchangeable Sodium Percentage |
EU |
European Union |
FAO |
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
FATA |
Federally Administered Tribal Areas |
FCC |
False-Colour Composite |
FDO |
Farmers' Drainage Organization |
FDP |
Fourth Drainage Project |
FESS |
Fordwah Eastern Sadiqia South |
FGW |
Fresh Groundwater |
FWMO |
Farm Water-Management Organization |
FO |
Farmers' Organization |
GIS |
Geographic Information System |
HC |
Hydraulic Conductivity |
HOPP |
Haryana Operational Pilot Project |
HRD |
Human Resources Development |
I&P |
Irrigation and Power Department, Government of Baluchistan. |
IBOD |
Indus Basin Outfall Drain |
ICC |
Irrigation Canal Command |
ICID |
International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage |
ICSD |
Interceptor-Cum-Subsurface Drains |
IEEM |
Institute of Environmental Engineering and Management |
ILRI |
International Institute for Land Reclamation |
INCID |
Indian National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage |
INRID |
Indian Network for Research in Irrigation and Drainage |
IPTRID |
International Programme for Technology Research in Irrigation and Drainage |
IRI |
Irrigation Research Institute |
IRS |
Indian Remote-sensing Satellite |
IRSA |
Indus River System Authority |
ISRIP |
International Sedimentation Research Institute |
ITC |
International Institute of Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences |
IWASRI |
International Waterlogging and Salinity Research Institute |
IWMI |
International Water-Management Institute |
LAI |
Leaf area index |
LBOD |
Left Bank Outfall Drain |
LIM |
Lower Indus Management Project |
LIP |
Lower Indus Basin Plan |
LITE |
Land Industrial Trading Estate |
M&E |
Monitoring and Evaluation |
MPR |
Master Planning and Review |
MREP |
Mona Reclamation Experimental Project |
MSS |
Multispectral Scanner |
MUET |
Mehran University of Engineering and Technology |
NCA |
National Commission for Agriculture |
NDA |
National Drainage Accord |
NDP |
National Drainage Programme |
NDVI |
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index |
NESPAK |
National Engineering Services of Pakistan |
NIAB |
Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology |
NGO |
Non-Governmental Organization |
NRAP |
Netherlands Research Assistance Project |
NSDS |
National Surface Drainage System |
NWFP |
Northwest Frontier Province |
O&M |
Operation and Maintenance |
OECD |
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development |
OFWM |
On-Farm Water Management |
OIF |
Optimum index factor |
PAD |
Punjab Agriculture Department |
PARC |
Pakistan Agricultural Research Council |
PCA |
Principal-Component Analysis |
PFF |
Project Formulation Framework |
PHE |
Public Health Engineering Department, Government of Baluchistan. |
PIDA |
Provincial Irrigation and Drainage Authority |
PID |
Provincial Irrigation Department |
PPSGDP |
Punjab Private Sector Groundwater Development Project |
PRA |
Participatory Rural Appraisal |
QB |
Quadirabad-Balloki link canal |
R&D |
Research and Development |
RAJAD |
Rajasthan Agriculture Drainage Project |
RBM |
River-Basin Management |
RBMP |
Right Bank Master Plan |
RBOD |
Right Bank Outfall Drain |
RS |
Remote Sensing |
RSC |
Residual Sodium Carbonate |
SALTMOD |
Salinity Computer Model |
SAR |
Sodium Adsorption Ratio |
SAU |
Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam |
SCARP |
Salinity Control and Reclamation Project |
SGW |
Saline Groundwater |
SIDA |
Sindh Irrigation and Drainage Authority |
SITE |
Sindh Industrial Trading Estate |
SIWARE |
Simulation of Water Management in the Arab Republic of Egypt |
SMO |
SCARP Monitoring Organization |
SPOT (PAM) |
Satellite pour l'Observation de la Terre (Panchromatique) |
SSD |
Subsurface Drainage |
SSP |
Soil Survey of Pakistan |
SSRI |
Soil Salinity Research Institute |
STW |
Shallow Tube Wells |
SUPARCO |
Space Upper Atmosphere Research Commission |
SWAP |
Soil-Water-Atmosphere Plant System |
TDS |
Total Dissolved Salts |
TM |
Thematic Mapper |
UAF |
University of Agriculture, Faisalabad |
UAP |
University of Agriculture Peshawar |
UNDP |
United Nations Development Programme |
UNEP |
United Nations Environment Programme |
UN-ESCAP |
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific |
UNESCO |
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
USAID |
United States Agency for International Development |
WAPDA |
Water and Power Development Authority |
WASID |
Water and Soil Investigation Division |
WEC |
WAPDA Environmental Cell |
WCA |
World Conservation Agency |
WHO |
World Health Organization |
WKTD |
West Khairpur Tile Drainage |
WMED |
Watercourse Monitoring and Evaluation Directorate |
WRRC |
Water Resources Research Centre (Quetta) |
WRRI |
Water Resources Research Institute |
WUA |
Water-users' association |
XS |
Multispectral scanning |