update Published on 04/15/2024
category Handbooks
The handbook is aimed mainly at basin managers and government representatives who have to make decisions relating to water management. Together, they must set up management systems whose objectives are to mitigate the impact of natural disasters, provide water for productive uses (agriculture, industry, energy, transport, tourism, fishing, etc.) and social uses (health and domestic services) and protect the environment. As a result, they have to manage conflicts between different users. The handbook is also aimed at non-governmental stakeholders involved in basin-wide activities. The advice it provides on integrated water resources management can be implemented in basins regardless of the context (developed or developing countries, wet or arid climates) or the mode of water governance.
The hanbook :
- makes the link between the challenges to be faced and the responses provided by IWRM ;
- makes proposals for setting up or modernising basin organisations,
- to facilitate the adoption of an IWRM approach;
- is intended to be practical and easy to use, with many concrete examples of management
- of rivers, lakes and aquifers.
112 pages – Published in 2009.