ISLAMABAD: Three experts from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) are conducting water-resource workshops in Islamabad this week to support the Pakistan Water Dialogue Project. According to a press release, as many as eighty-five senior officials and technical experts from the federal and provincial ministries, universities, and NGOs are attending the events organised by USDA and the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA). David Williams, the US Embassy’s Agriculture Counselor, said that the Pakistan Water Dialogue Project helped farmers to more efficiently capture, store, and use water for agriculture. The USDA experts leading the workshops are Michael Kucera, an agronomist at USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Service; Jon Fripp, a Stream Mechanics Civil Engineer at USDA’s Construction and Soil Management Center; and Hilary Landfried, a programme manager with the US Foreign Agricultural Service’s Office of Capacity Building and Development. Published in Daily Times, August 23rd 2017.