#103: Area of the Lower Chenab Canal System

The broad aims are finding  technically, economically and institutionally feasible ways of increasing the efficiency and productivity of water use along the entire cotton-textile value chain; contribute to a sustainable water resource management by increasing efficiency in cotton irrigation, optimizing dyes and process chemicals use, improving textile machinery, establishing suitable wastewater treatment

Processes describe policy implementation rather than the development of formal institutions. This focus takes into account that the bottleneck for policy effectiveness is often implementation rather than policy development.

, and analytical instruments for water pollution monitoring.

Main challenges are introducing sustainable policies is complicated by a lack of capable and strong administrations as well as a lack of respect for laws and regulations in Pakistan (“weak institutional framework”).