The document summarizes a water supply project in Abbottabad, Pakistan funded by JICA. The 4-year project aimed to improve drinking water facilities for 216,000 people. It included developing surface water infrastructure like an intake system, water treatment plant, and transmission mains. The project also involved groundwater infrastructure like tube wells and reservoirs. However, the project faced some political issues due to concerns from a neighboring district that it would reduce their water supply and impact agriculture.

1. Government College Of Management Sciences,
Abbottabad.
Topic
Water Supply Project In
Abbottabad (by JICA)
Subject
Project Management
Submitted By
Naqash
Roll No
MBA-V-23
Submitted To
Sir Zeeshan
Remarks

2. Water Supply Project In Abbottabad
Pakistan

3.  Introduction:
According to Global Water Aid Organization “15.3 Million people in Pakistan don't have
access to safe water. Over 93 million people don't have access to adequate sanitation in
Pakistan, over half of the population. Over 40,000 children die every year from diarrhea
caused by unsafe water and poor sanitation in Pakistan.” So from these figures we can
assume that how much insufficient and inadequate are the available facilities for many
communities. An estimate tells that by the year 2015 over half of the people in Pakistan will
live in urban areas. So, it can cause panic situation on already limited water and sanitation
facilities.
To enhance drinking water facilities to the inhabitants in a city of Pakistan i.e. Abbottabad,
Provincial Government and JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) contributed to
accomplish the project.
Following are the project related details
Term Duration:
The project commenced on 1st September, 2010 and is supposed to end in December 2014.
Time duration of the project was approximately four years.
Executing Agency:
The whole project is carried under Public Health Engineering Department, Khyber
Pakhtoonkhwa, Pakistan.
Project Location:
Abbottabad, KPK, Pakistan.
Total Amount Of Aid:
The amount which was given in aid to accomplish the project was 3,644 Million Yen.Which
is approximately equal to 40 Million US Dollars.
The project components are as follows;
Surface Water System:
Intake (4 nos.) raw water transmission mains (20.5km),Water Treatment plant
(17,300m3
/day), Treated water transmission mains(24.3km), Distribution reservoir (6 nos.).
For water storage four different pools will be constructed at Namli, Giya Nullah and Bandi
Bagh

4. Ground Water System:
Tube well and pump (4 nos.), pump replacement (12 nos.), Distribution reservoir (3 nos.),
water transmission main (62 km).

5.  Literature Review:
In a detailed survey by over the poor available facilities of water to the inhabitants of Abbottabad
in compliance with IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural.
According to which due to urbanization the citizens of the city may suffer scarcity of water in
years to follow. And the present available facilities are incompetent and damaged, due to which
40% of rural and 60% of urban population are unsatisfied. The sample reported that the water
contained Bitterness (45%) saltiness (20%) in rural areas, Muddiness (51%) and bitterness (26%)
in urban areas. Some households also report a rust taste in the water.
[Dr. Usman Mustafa, Mirajul Haq and Iftikhar Ahmad]
According to a news, Japan Government promised to give $40 million to improve water supply
in Abbottabad, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, which will help 216,000 people to access safe drinking
water.
[Published in, The Express Tribune July 28th, 2010.]
Another news, Japan would pay $588,000 in the first instalment, for the project design, of water
supply program in Abbottabad.
[Published in, The Express Tribune, September 28th, 2011.]
According to Recorder Report, “Gravity flow water supply scheme will be completed by
September 2013.”
[Business Recorder]
The same project with changes was implemented in Nepal after a study that predicted the water demand
in the Kathmandu valley will be 207.8 MLD (Million liters per day) in 2011 and 332 MLD in 2021, and
the water supply at present is estimated as about 140 MLD. This project is named as Melamchi Water
Supply Project for improvement of water supply in the Kathmandu valley by diverting the water from the
Melamchi River. This project included construction of a 26 km long diversion tunnel and a water
treatment plant, and improvement of distribution. For this purpose JICA contributed towards the
construction of Water Treatment Plant.
[Japan International Cooperation Agency]
Water supply projects were also launched in different Kurdistan regions by funding US $ 113,691,710.
The components of the project are Water treatment plant (6,650 m3/hr), 4 Booster Station, 4 Water
Reservoirs, (110,550) km of Ductile and polyethylene Iron Pipe (900 to 100) mm in diameter.
Construction time was 720 Days. And operation period. two years. The project will help supply water
with a flow of 6650 m3
/hour up to the design horizon year 2033.
Couple of Water Supply Improvement Projects in Sulaimani City, Ifraz, Barzan , Amedy, Chamchamal,
Halabja, Erbil and Dohuk City located within Kurdistan Region were also funded by JICA, FIDIC and
other organizations. The components of these projects were Water Treatment Plants , Booster Stations,
Water Reservoirs, Ductile Iron Pipe (all diameters), Changing the old water networks.
According to a news Jamaica Water Supply Improvement Project (JWSIP), undertaken by the National
Water Commission Jamaica, has a total cost of US$211 and it will bring an additional 20 million gallons
of water to residents in Kingston and St Andrew, St Catherine and other areas of Jamaica.

6. [Published: Friday | March 25, 2011 in Jamaica Gleaner]
Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved the Water Supply Improvement Project, urban water sector in
the. The project aim water supply services for residents of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal and State of
Karnataka & Delhi Water Supply Improvement Investment Program in India.
[Asian Development Bank]

7.  References:
http://www.wateraid.org/where-we-
work/page/pakistan
http://www.jica.go.jp/pakistan/activities/
activity02_21.html
IUCN Pakistan
Islamabad Office
House 9, Street 64
Sector F-8/4, Islamabad
Tel: +92 (51) 2850250
Fax: +92 (51) 2850249
www.iucnp.org
http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-
News-7-108903-Fate-of-water-supply-
scheme-in-doldrums
http://www.dawn.com/news/367189/haripur
-abbottabad-water-project-opposedPublished
https://www.ssyenc.com/ivtR/newEng/new/acce
ptView.asp?pos=146
http://www.watsan-
krg.org/index.php/projects/under-construction
http://jamaica-
gleaner.com/gleaner/20110325/lead/lead96.html
http://www.worldbank.org/projects/P082510/kar
nataka-urban-water-sector-improvement-
project?lang=en
http://www.adb.org/publications/nepal-
kathmandu-valley-water-supply-improvement-
project-south-asia-project-brief

8.  Critical Analysis:
The water supply in Abbottabad area is very much dependant on groundwater as water
sources. In recent years, rapid development and increase in population of this area has
indicated the enhancement of water supply is urgently required. This project is to overcome
the problems like shortage in water supply capacity, to improve the water services and to
improve the environment in Abbottabad city and surrounding area by developing surface
water supply system by gravity.
This project can provide 6.8 million gallons of clean water daily to 216,000 people and also a
constructed surface water system for the residents of Abbottabad and its surroundings by the
year 2015. This in turn will reduce, the contaminated water born diseases to an affective
level.

9.  Political Factors:
The project, which was approved in 1986, the work on which was started on 1st
September ,2010.
After the Government signed an agreement with Japan for funding to end water shortage in
Abbottabad.
There has been a long debate between two neighboring districts over an issue of water. The
Haripur district imposes Rawaje Aabpashi (water apportionment) accord of 1904, which
guarantees Haripur’s rights over the waters of Daur River, and stated that it cannot be gifted or
sold to any other party. And on other hand inhabitant of Abbottabad are lacking clean and
sufficient amount of supply of water for daily usage.
In August 2004, Yusuf Ayub Khan, provincial minister and member of party's central executive
council of The Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz group) opposed the construction of a water
supply scheme on the River Dour in Abbottabad. Acocording to him about 90 per cent of water
from three major perennial tributaries of river Dour would be diverted for consumption of
Abbottabad and only 10 per cent of the three tributaries would be allowed to flow down to
Haripur. He feared that the project would affect the water share of Haripur, and will ruin the
district's agriculture system and can cause a dispute between the two neighboring districts..
On September 28th, 2011, Representatives of different political parties, farmer’s associations and
trade bodies resisted the construction of Japan-funded Gravity Flow Water Supply Project on
River Daur in Abbottabad District. Haripur Bachao Tehrik (Save Haripur Movement), The
meeting was chaired by Pakistan People’s Party District President Haji Tahir Qureshi;
representatives of Anjuman Zameendaran Traders Associations and office bearers of PML-N,
JUI-F, Tehrik-i-Insaf, Jamat-e-Islami, Hazara Qaumi Mahaz attended the meeting.
According to the meeting press release they said that the project would destroy the fertile
orchards and agricultural land in 20 union councils (UC), and will damage the sewage system in
three urban UCs, which are totally dependent on Daur’s water. The participants estimated that
about 33,000 hectares of land is irrigated from Daur’s water. Haripur is the biggest supplier of
seasonal as well as off seasonal crops, vegetables and fruits to the rest of the country.
On May 18, 2012, work on Drinking water supply project stopped by the Cantonment Board
officials and asked the district government to sign new agreement for the distribution of water.
But, now water of natural spring from the upper hilly areas of Galayat will be taped and
distributed to Abbottabad city and its cantonment areas to end the current water shortage.

10.  Conclusion:
This project has many positive and negative effect on the different peoples within the region and
outside the region.
 For 216,000 people of almost 9 villages and cantonment area of Abbottabad, this
project is providing an efficient and less cost drinking clean water. This will provide
them accessibility to healthy water, which will raise their hygiene level.
 This project does only covers the urban area of Abbottabad and ignores the rural
population. And rural area also should be kept under consideration.
 Due to diversion of water the Haripur district may suffer as the agricultural activities
depend on this water. So the need is to get on a neutral path and solve that issue by
providing them better alternative.