US-Pakistan Centre for Advanced Study opens at MUET

Provincial Minister for Education Jam Methab Hussain Dehar along with USAID Mission Director Jerry Bisson and Deputy Mission Director Denise Herbal inaugurated a newly established building of "US-Pakistan Center for Advanced Study" at Mehran University of Engineering & Technology (MUET) Jamshoro. On this occasion, the minister while addressing the ceremony said, "I feel greatly honored and consider it a great opportunity to have joined you in this noble cause and to inaugurate the new building of the US-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Water."
"This is not merely a building. But this is actually a vision turned into reality and start of a new era of accelerated development and more importantly a value-added dimension of the Center for achieving its overall objectives, for transforming the Water Center into world class Center of Excellence and for its sustainability by producing technically qualified water leaders and thus contributing to the economy of the country by way of resolving water-related challenges," he added.
He extended thanks and appreciation to the American people and US Agency for International Development (USAID) for full financial support, including funding for this Center, and also thanks to the University of Utah for providing technical and capacity building support for the Center. He also congratulated to the Vice Chancellor and the Project Director of this Center for having such state-of-the-art building.
He said that effective development and management of the country's water resources are therefore vital to Pakistan's overall economic development, food security and health of its population. We need to take necessary steps on war footing which requires policy makers, researchers, advocacy groups, development professionals and civil society groups to join hands to draw appropriate plans and policies to sensitize and engage all stakeholders on critical water issues, challenges and opportunities in order to address the above challenges and achieve sustainable water development and management.