1. HYDROLOGY OF THE INDUS BASIN, PAKISTAN GIS TERM PROJECT BY ELIZABETH OJEH 30 TH NOVEMBER, 2006

2. OUTLINE Introduction Data sources and data collection Procedure Analysis / future work

3. Introduction A Trans-boundary River A water stressed region Indus and 6 Major tributaries 2 major storage reservoirs (>10%) 15 barrages to divert water for irrigation Groundwater over exploited

4. Pictures courtesy: Google Earth

5. Appreciation of the Indus River 12 th Largest river in the world Drainage Basin 9.7 x 10 5 Km 2 Deltaic Area (2 x 10 4 Km 2 ) 7th in the world Annual water runoff of 2 x 10 11 m 3 (10 th ) Annual sediment discharge 2 x 10 11 Kg/yr (6 th )

6. Climate - Rainfall Maps from: AN ASSESMENT OF WATER RESOURCES AVAILABLE FOR IRRIGATION IN THE INDUS BASIN AND SOME RELATED ISSUES files

7. Temperature Map courtesy: maps.wunderground.com

8. Data sources Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) http://srtm.usgs.gov/ http://srtm.usgs.gov/ GTOPO30 - 30 arc-second cell (1:1,000,000 scale) global DEM Hydro1K – hydrologic derivative datasets from GTOPO30 Global Water and Energy Experiment (GEWEX) http://www.gewex.org/ http://www.gewex.org/ Climate National Climate Data Center http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ NCDC Climate Data Online http://cdo.ncdc.noaa.govhttp://cdo.ncdc.noaa.gov

9. Procedure

10. Flow accumulation

11. Stream Link

12. Drainage Lines

13. Drainage Lines Converted to Features

14. New Drainage Lines

15. Problem still

16. Fragmented Basin

17. This is Where I am now!

18. HELP QUESTIONS