| Targeting strategy | Provide water to un-served or under-served areas where the access to clean drinking water have walk of 0.5 KM |
| Legislative strategy | Encourage the participation of private sector. community participation, public-private partnership and role of NGOs |
| Protection of water resources | Protection of surface and ground water sources in urban and rural areas |
| Institutional strategy | Strengthen the institutions and their services of providing drinking water at federal, provincial and local government level |
| Technical strategy | Technical assistance to the provincial and local agencies, support clean drinking water initiative project by the federal government and provincial water filtration plants at tehsil and union council level |
| Operation and maintenance (O&M) strategy | WASA and TMA are responsible for the O&M in urban areas. TMA is only responsible for O&M in rural areas |
| Drinking water quality standards | Using the WHOs drinking water quality guidelines both in urban and rural areas |
| Water quality monitoring and surveillance | PQCA and PCRWR ensure the water quality standard through surveillance of water quality from different sources |
| Gender strategy | Female participation in decision making at the district, tehsil and union council tiers |
| Communication and dissemination strategy | Disseminating information on drinking water quality standards through articles in the national press, leaflets, newsletters and spreading information to schools, through NGOs, civil societies, and citizen community boards (CCBs). |
| Financial strategy | Provision of water supply and sanitation services at affordable rates is Promised in the financial strategy. funds are given to CCBs at local level for drinking water schemes |
| Monitoring and evaluation strategy (M&E), | Ministry of environment will be responsible for reporting of State of Drinking Water in Pakistan, whereas, the local government department and WASAs will be responsible for monitoring the coverage of drinking water supply in rural and urban areas respectively. |
| Research strategy | Pilot tests for new approaches and innovative ideas in the drinking water sector, especially those which help to improve access, efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability. |