Integrated Water Resource Management

As defined by the Global Water Partnership, integrated water resource management is a process which promotes the coordinated development and management of water, land, and related resources in order to maximize the resultant economic and social welfare in an equitable manner without compromising the sustainability of vital ecosystems. Resources available within this theme provide guidance on how to conserve and restore watersheds, reduce pollution, adapt to climate change and reduce risks from floods and droughts.

Integrated Water Resource Management Resources

Water Quality of Sri Lanka: A Review of 12 Water Bodies

Publication date:
January 1, 1996
U.S. Agency for International Development
The quality of Sri Lanka's surface waters has been adversely affected by a number of factors, including irrigation-related watershed practices, catchment land use, direct discharge of industrial wastes, and unplanned human settlement in highly urbanized areas. However, available data on the...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Sri Lanka
South East Asia

Handbook for Rapid Appraisal of Fisheries Management Systems

Publication date:
January 1, 1996
U.S. Agency for International Development
Rapid appraisal of fisheries management systems (RAFMS) is a semi structured research tool designed to quickly document and evaluate existing local-level fisheries management systems in a given coastal community. The results of RAFMS will provide direction for undertaking more formal research or...Read more

Institutional Framework for Irrigation: Proceedings of a Workshop, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 1-5 November 1993

Publication date:
November 1, 1995
U.S. Agency for International Development
Document outlines a key event in a sequence of workshops and seminars in Langkawi, Malaysia, of senior officials, from many departments concerned with irrigated agriculture and its consequences. A common theme at the meetings was the question of institutions. Leaders of the irrigated agriculture...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
South East Asia

Annual Activity Report -- September 1, 1994-August 31, 1995: Monitoring and Modeling of Saltwater Intrusion Implemented to Gaza Strip and Morocco

Publication date:
October 1, 1995
U.S. Agency for International Development
The primary contract between the AID and the University of Delaware was completed around the end of September, 1994. Negotiation of subcontracts with Gaza Strip, Israel, Morocco, and USGS began soon after that. Due to a variety of reasons such as ensuring the consistency of accounting methods,...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
West Bank and Gaza
Middle East and North Africa

Promoting Community Participation in Municipal Services: Potable Water Project in Matagalpa, Nicaragua

Publication date:
July 1, 1995
U.S. Agency for International Development
In March 1991, the Municipality of Matagalpa, Nicaragua, reached an agreement with the national water authority to allow the municipality to assume administration of the municipal water system. This would be the nation's first experiment with decentralization of a utility service. Under the...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Latin America and the Caribbean

Methodology for Participatory Evaluation of O&M in Distributary and Field Canals

Publication date:
July 1, 1995
U.S. Agency for International Development
During a tour of d- and f- canals, the Managing Director of MEA requested MARD to propose a low cost method of evaluating the state of tertiary system maintenance in System B. MARD's staff worked for several months, in consultation with MEA engineers and farmers' organizations, developing...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Sri Lanka
South East Asia

Annual Management Plan for the Fishery Sector in Guinea-Bissau

Publication date:
April 1, 1995
U.S. Agency for International Development
As a strategy to prevent the depletion of the commercially valuable fishery stocks in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Guinea-Bissau and increase socioeconomic benefits to the country, the Minsitry of Fisheries proposes the introduction of the 1995 Fisheries Management Plan. The Plan is the...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Guinea-Bissau
Sub-Saharan Africa

Services of Provincial Irrigation Offices to Communal Irrigation Systems in Western Visayas, the Philippines

Publication date:
January 1, 1995
U.S. Agency for International Development
With NIA's efforts toward institutional development and turnover of irrigation systems, donor-assisted irrigation projects in the recent past have included the development of Irrigators' Associations and irrigation management transfer as major components in project implementation. This...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Philippines
East Asia and Pacific

New guidelines for the National Fishery Policy: Part II -- Promotion of the Private Sector and Development of a National Fishing Fleet

Publication date:
November 1, 1994
U.S. Agency for International Development
The factor that most affects the fishery private sector in Guinea-Bissau is the continual intervention of the Government in the commercial activities of the sector. The problem is complicated by either the delay caused in the execution of the privatization plans by the Government or by, through new...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Guinea-Bissau
Sub-Saharan Africa

Institutions, Incentives, and Irrigation in Nepal

Publication date:
October 1, 1994
U.S. Agency for International Development
Since 1950, government-managed irrigation development has been a cornerstone of public policy in Nepal. Numerous case studies, however, have shown that government-managed systems, despite their tremendous advantages in material and engineering resources, are outperformed by the farmer-led,...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Nepal
South East Asia

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