She was speaking at the inaugural session of five-day tailor made training workshop on "Gender, Water Management & Climate Adaptation" co-organized by the Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR) at the Institute of Management Sciences (IMSciences) and International education for Water Education (IHE), Netherlands from Jan 28 to Feb 1 here.
"After few big dams we have not planned or built any such other water saving reservoir.
Such training sessions are necessary and should be held to develop adequate information and expertise over the matter," she said.
She added that Netherlands would like to support programmes related to water management and agriculture sector development.
"Netherlands will develop data base helpful in water management in various parts of the world.
"Pakistan is ranked among the most water scarce and vulnerable to climate change countries.
The training material had been developed by IHE Delft resource persons, covering key water issues in water governance including trans-boundary water issues, WASH, integrated water management, policy and institutional environment of water governance, policy and politics of climate adaptation and other key topics.
Director IMSciences, Peshawar Dr Muhammad Mohsin said that the training session was a first step towards international training and water shortage was a national problem and we would have to work on this issue.
Professor (Water Governance, IHE) Margaret Zwarteveen said that climate change and other associated global environmental issues had manifested the fact that all old knowledge, policies and mechanisms had gone outdated and insufficient to cope with the induced matter of water scarcity.
However, the training session would help built mechanisms and understanding of the water governance and management concepts in a proper way, she added.