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To provide a valuable service to: - those civil society and public stakeholder sectors interested in learning more about the benefits, principles and practices of an Integrated Approach to Water and Resources Management and - those who are starting out or wish to remain quickly up to date with practical actions in IWRM.
We also want you to join with us as members to contribute and challenge the policy makers and implementing agencies in your countries and regions to be able to more directly participate in the decision making and awareness building aong all concerned stakeholders. - learn what IWRM is and where to go to find out more about it and how to react in local settings.
Be a little patient at the moment as we consolidate and become more contemporary with our site.
News - latest - 2008
UPDATING - 2008 / 2009 We are "updating" our International NGO in 2008/2009. Much of the 2002-derived international attention to IWRM flared, sputtered and has faltered badly. Very few nations have actually completed IWRM & Efficiency National Plans. Of those that have, many are not implemented - but sit on shelves. Some are promoting them beyond their doorsteps but internationally, there is little assessment or critique. Many developing countries received extensive donor money to do the paperwork but there has been little follow up with meaningful legislative actions or commitment. Priorities still seem to rest with other than the water management sector - particularly in today's global economic recession. Even 2008 - the Sanitation year- has struggled gaining footholds in the shifting sands of donor and international support. So far - the World Bank has seemed to retreat in its support for IWRM. The Asian Development Bank remains outstanding in its unfaltering support and publicity. The EU WFD remains a key model although having nations decide to make their entire state one single watershed deviates from logic and EU WFD goals.
However, water - and how to fairly manage, protect and distribute it - remains one of the 21st century's most important set of key local, regional and national issues. We are in a hiatus and those dealing with water management can benefit from a nexus location.
Completed Events and Links [LHS] are working and are being updated as needs emerge. Please keep the news and feedback coming. We will get it posted as soon as possible.
Update - State of the Art in River Basin Management Practices - March 2008 Please note we are preparing an UPDATE to our 2006 "State of the Art Review of River Basin Management Practices". We completed a DRAFT for UNESCO in 2006. About the same time, we delivered the Proceedings from an RBM Practice Guidelines working group meeting we facilitated as part of the same project's SOW. We want to be able to share this valuable knowledge as apparently UNESCO has not published this information! These resources come not just from our review of over 100 recently reported case histories of IWRM in river basins and aquifers globally, but also from the input and critique of 17 international experts in RBM that UNESCO and IWRM.org and the experts themselves helped make happen. Along with key input from the HELP programme, there was forward-looking insight and valuable recommendations elicited concerning what can be realistically done to improve and update River Basin Management Practices and how to disseminate that knowledge. We strongly believe that Knowledge sharing is good water resources management practice and we think that the insight and practical solutions that we helped generate and synthesed could be both valuable and pertinent to others involved with for example, the EU WFD and similar IWRM / ICM and RBM practice applications globally !
