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May 4, 2015, 12:01:39 PM |
ISLAMABAD: In March this year, Federal Minister for Water and Power Khawaja Asif warned in no unclear terms that Pakistan will face acute water shortages in the coming years.
Despite this awareness, the government has stopped funding to the research institute that can find solutions to this problem.
“No research funds were approved for the Pakistan Council for Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) last year, which is essentially a waste of research facilities that were built at a cost of Rs1 billion,” PCRWR Chairman Dr Mohammad Ashraf told Dawn.
The council received just enough money to pay employees’ salaries.
The PCRWR is just one among a dozen institutions that have been engaged in research in different fields, under the Ministry of Science and Technology. Read more |
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