{"id":9304,"date":"2021-02-20T21:56:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T21:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=9304"},"modified":"2021-02-20T21:56:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T21:56:45","slug":"2021-pakistan-water-conference-by-usaid-in-collaboration-with-punjab-gov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/2021-pakistan-water-conference-by-usaid-in-collaboration-with-punjab-gov\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Pakistan Water Conference\u00a0by USAID in Collaboration with Punjab Gov"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9305\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/usaid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/usaid.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/usaid-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/usaid-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Islamabad; 20 Feb 2021 &#8211; The United States Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), in collaboration with the Government of Punjab, opened the 2021 Pakistan Water Conference\u00a0 to highlight the challenges facing the water sector in Pakistan and the importance of governance for increasing water productivity.<\/h3>\n<p>The United States and Pakistan have a long history of partnering on water issues. Joint investments in water infrastructure and management are generating new jobs, increasing farmers\u2019 incomes, improving health and sanitation, and contributing to economic growth on both a national and provincial level.<\/p>\n<h3>\u201cToday\u2019s conference is a major step toward achieving a better balance between water supply and demand. Improving water governance is a prerequisite for achieving better water productivity,\u201d said USAID Mission Director Julie Koenen. \u201cBetter water productivity means service delivery to households, farms, and industry can be improved without damaging surface and underground water systems, as well as the broader environment.\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Policy makers, federal and provincial government representatives, water experts, including from USAID, other development partners, academics, and private sector stakeholders attended the conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad; 20 Feb 2021 &#8211; The United States Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), in collaboration with the Government of Punjab, opened the 2021 Pakistan Water Conference\u00a0 to highlight the challenges facing the water sector in Pakistan and the importance of governance for increasing water productivity. The United States and Pakistan have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[48,520,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9307,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9304\/revisions\/9307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}