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AJKIDA |
Azad Jammu and Kashmir Irrigation and Drainage Authority |
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ARI |
Agriculture Research Institute |
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AZR |
Arid Zone Research |
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AUP |
Agriculture University, Peshawar |
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AWBs |
Area Water Boards |
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AZRC |
Arid Zone Research Centre |
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BCIAP |
Baluchistan Community Irrigation and Agriculture Project |
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BDA |
Baluchistan Development Authority |
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BDW |
Blow-Down |
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BHC |
Benzene Hexachloride |
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BOD |
Biological Oxygen Demand |
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BWA |
Baluchistan Water Authority |
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CAD |
Command-Area Development |
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CCA |
Cultural Command Area |
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CEWRE |
Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Engineering |
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CRBC |
Chashma Right Bank Canal |
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CSSRI |
Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal, India |
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DAS |
Drainage Advisory Service |
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DBG |
Drainage Beneficiaries' Group |
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DLR |
Directorate of Land Reclamation |
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DRC |
Drainage Research Centre |
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DRIP |
Drainage and Reclamation Institute of Pakistan |
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DTPA |
Di-ethylene Triamine Pentacetic Acid |
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DTW |
Deep Tubewells |
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EC |
Electrical Conductivity |
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ECNEC |
Executive Committee of the National Economic Council |
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EIA |
Environmental Impact Assessment |
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EKTD |
East Khairpur Tile Drainage |
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ENSURE |
Environmentally Sustainable Reuse and Disposal of Drainage Water in Pakistan |
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EPA |
Environmental Protection Agency |
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EPD |
Environmental Protection Department |
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ESP |
Exchangeable Sodium Percentage |
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EU |
European Union |
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FAO |
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
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FATA |
Federally Administered Tribal Areas |
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FCC |
False-Colour Composite |
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FDO |
Farmers' Drainage Organization |
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FDP |
Fourth Drainage Project |
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FESS |
Fordwah Eastern Sadiqia South |
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FGW |
Fresh Groundwater |
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FWMO |
Farm Water-Management Organization |
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FO |
Farmers' Organization |
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GIS |
Geographic Information System |
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HC |
Hydraulic Conductivity |
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HOPP |
Haryana Operational Pilot Project |
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HRD |
Human Resources Development |
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I&P |
Irrigation and Power Department, Government of Baluchistan. |
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IBOD |
Indus Basin Outfall Drain |
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ICC |
Irrigation Canal Command |
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ICID |
International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage |
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ICSD |
Interceptor-Cum-Subsurface Drains |
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IEEM |
Institute of Environmental Engineering and Management |
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ILRI |
International Institute for Land Reclamation |
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INCID |
Indian National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage |
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INRID |
Indian Network for Research in Irrigation and Drainage |
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IPTRID |
International Programme for Technology Research in Irrigation and Drainage |
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IRI |
Irrigation Research Institute |
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IRS |
Indian Remote-sensing Satellite |
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IRSA |
Indus River System Authority |
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ISRIP |
International Sedimentation Research Institute |
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ITC |
International Institute of Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences |
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IWASRI |
International Waterlogging and Salinity Research Institute |
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IWMI |
International Water-Management Institute |
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LAI |
Leaf area index |
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LBOD |
Left Bank Outfall Drain |
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LIM |
Lower Indus Management Project |
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LIP |
Lower Indus Basin Plan |
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LITE |
Land Industrial Trading Estate |
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M&E |
Monitoring and Evaluation |
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MPR |
Master Planning and Review |
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MREP |
Mona Reclamation Experimental Project |
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MSS |
Multispectral Scanner |
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MUET |
Mehran University of Engineering and Technology |
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NCA |
National Commission for Agriculture |
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NDA |
National Drainage Accord |
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NDP |
National Drainage Programme |
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NDVI |
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index |
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NESPAK |
National Engineering Services of Pakistan |
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NIAB |
Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology |
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NGO |
Non-Governmental Organization |
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NRAP |
Netherlands Research Assistance Project |
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NSDS |
National Surface Drainage System |
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NWFP |
Northwest Frontier Province |
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O&M |
Operation and Maintenance |
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OECD |
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development |
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OFWM |
On-Farm Water Management |
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OIF |
Optimum index factor |
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PAD |
Punjab Agriculture Department |
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PARC |
Pakistan Agricultural Research Council |
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PCA |
Principal-Component Analysis |
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PFF |
Project Formulation Framework |
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PHE |
Public Health Engineering Department, Government of Baluchistan. |
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PIDA |
Provincial Irrigation and Drainage Authority |
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PID |
Provincial Irrigation Department |
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PPSGDP |
Punjab Private Sector Groundwater Development Project |
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PRA |
Participatory Rural Appraisal |
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QB |
Quadirabad-Balloki link canal |
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R&D |
Research and Development |
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RAJAD |
Rajasthan Agriculture Drainage Project |
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RBM |
River-Basin Management |
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RBMP |
Right Bank Master Plan |
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RBOD |
Right Bank Outfall Drain |
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RS |
Remote Sensing |
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RSC |
Residual Sodium Carbonate |
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SALTMOD |
Salinity Computer Model |
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SAR |
Sodium Adsorption Ratio |
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SAU |
Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam |
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SCARP |
Salinity Control and Reclamation Project |
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SGW |
Saline Groundwater |
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SIDA |
Sindh Irrigation and Drainage Authority |
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SITE |
Sindh Industrial Trading Estate |
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SIWARE |
Simulation of Water Management in the Arab Republic of Egypt |
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SMO |
SCARP Monitoring Organization |
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SPOT (PAM) |
Satellite pour l'Observation de la Terre (Panchromatique) |
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SSD |
Subsurface Drainage |
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SSP |
Soil Survey of Pakistan |
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SSRI |
Soil Salinity Research Institute |
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STW |
Shallow Tube Wells |
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SUPARCO |
Space Upper Atmosphere Research Commission |
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SWAP |
Soil-Water-Atmosphere Plant System |
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TDS |
Total Dissolved Salts |
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TM |
Thematic Mapper |
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UAF |
University of Agriculture, Faisalabad |
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UAP |
University of Agriculture Peshawar |
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UNDP |
United Nations Development Programme |
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UNEP |
United Nations Environment Programme |
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UN-ESCAP |
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific |
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UNESCO |
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
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USAID |
United States Agency for International Development |
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WAPDA |
Water and Power Development Authority |
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WASID |
Water and Soil Investigation Division |
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WEC |
WAPDA Environmental Cell |
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WCA |
World Conservation Agency |
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WHO |
World Health Organization |
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WKTD |
West Khairpur Tile Drainage |
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WMED |
Watercourse Monitoring and Evaluation Directorate |
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WRRC |
Water Resources Research Centre (Quetta) |
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WRRI |
Water Resources Research Institute |
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WUA |
Water-users' association |
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XS |
Multispectral scanning |
