Water is critical for sustaining livelihoods, ensuring environmental quality and sometimes even cultural and social identity. In the semi-arid regions of southern Afghanistan and western Pakistan, ancient collective irrigation methods are being replaced by the drilling of individual tubewells, rapidly depleting groundwater levels, increasing water stress, and upsetting established patterns of social cohesion. Maintaining traditional water management techniques can support local livelihoods, build human capital, and reduce communal frictions in economically vulnerable and politically volatile rural communities. Please join us for a discussion of opportunities for peace building by supporting local livelihoods and sustainable water use in Afghanistan and Pakistan with Dr. Daanish Mustafa.
Daanish Mustafa is Senior Lecturer in Environment, Politics and Development in the Department of Geography at King