Distance Learning Module 19 - Access to High Technology to Study Water with Grant-Funding Partnerships
- Afghanistan and Tajikistan lack the technological and monetary means to study many of their water issues.
- Pakistan is in a better educational and financial position to study its water issues but does lack motivation or some access to the higher technologies.
- The technological means to study water issues in Central and Southwest Asia are available to personnel from International Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha UNO and our international Dougherty Water for Food Institute (DWFI).
- Remote sensing and ground survey techniques are the best methods for many water studies.
- The financial means to initiate and develop studies of water phenomena are commonly available from numerous granting agencies in USA and Europe.
- International partnerships can be developed between UNO and DWFI with university and government officials to study water issues of interest to all sides.
- Such international partnerships do not guarantee success with grant proposals to different funding agencies, but they do offer a first step to potential success.
- Good possibilities for future work include establishment of snow-cover monitoring, especially in the range of altitudes of 2000 – 4500 m, using common approaches and collection and exchange of data.
- Updated investigation of the essential glaciers of Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Pakistan from which so much meltwater derives is also planned with advanced remote sensing investigation of both countries.