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Abstract

This thesis is an effort to find a relationship between floods and droughts in context of climate change and exploring the options and practices that addresses both these issues in an integrated way leading to better, sustainable and reliable solutions. The study defines the integrated methodology for understanding relationships between different issues of interest and can be applied at any scale from local to national. Lai Nullah is located in an urban centre of Rawalpindi, Pakistan that experience regular floods and water scarcity issues as a result of too much water during the monsoon rains and too less water during the dry periods. Different conventional options and strategies have been used during different projects to tackle both the issues. The study gives a detail analysis of importance to using structural and non structural measures together while planning or project design. As a part of best practice, case studies have been included to measure and understand the effectiveness of different options used in Lai Nullah case. Research found that rain water should be taken as an opportunity rather than threat in context of climate change and two options has been explained that deals with rain water harvesting in way that not only mitigates the flood impact but also recharge the ground water.