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WES-Net Pakistan is a knowledge network of key organizations, stakeholders, UN agencies, NGOs, government departments and donors involved within water and sanitation sector in Pakistan. The network came into existence in Feb 2008 with a vision to improve knowledge sharing and co-ordination within the WatSan sector. Currently this newly born knowledge management network consists of seven major key organizations; UNICEF, UNDP, IUCN, WSP-SA, LEAD Pakistan, RSPN & Jahangir Group. The network has proven to be running in a very efficient manner as each organization has committed to fulfill certain tasks and responsibilities. WES-Net Pakistan... more....

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SACOSAN III The South Asia Conferences on Sanitation are high-powered ministerial conferences held in South Asian region, devoted solely to the subject of sanitation. They are intended to develop a regional agenda on sanitation, enabling the learning from experiences and setting...more

WES-Net Pakistan is a knowledge association of stakeholders in the Water and Environmental Sanitation sector, including NGOs, UN agencies, private sector, consultants, government departments and donors. WES-Net Pakistan’s objective is to improve knowledge sharing...more

In the remote town of Takhtbai in the North West Frontier Province, people took to the streets recently in a march to raise awareness during Pakistan's biannual Child Health and Sanitation Week. In the course of the week, events to reduce child deaths and disease by promoting better...more

The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) - which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 - form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. They...more


	Only 2.5% of the world's water is not salty, and two-thirds of that is trapped in the icecaps and glaciers. Of what is left, about 20% is in remote areas and most of the rest comes at the wrong time and in the wrong place, as with monsoons and floods. The amount of fresh water available for human use is less than 0.08% of all the water on the planet. About 70% of the fresh water is already used for agriculture, and the report says the demands of industry and energy will grow rapidly. The World Water Council report estimates that in the next two decades the use of water by humans will increase by about 40%, and that 17% more water than is available will be needed to grow the world's food....The commission concludes that "only rapid and imaginative institutional and technological innovation can avoid the crisis".

		BBC News, "Water arithmetic 'doesn't add up