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1.3.2. IntegratedWater ResourcesManagement
The Global Water Partnership (GWP) defines IntegratedWater ResourcesManagement as a
process that promotes the coordinated development andmanagement of water, land and
related resources in order tomaximize economic and social welfare in an equitablemanner
without compromising the sustainability of vital ecosystems.
In its studies, GWP focuses on the following pillars for the harmonious implementation of
IWRM:
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Enabling environment;
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Institutional framework;
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Management instruments.
The International Network of BasinOrganizations (INBO) suggests taking an organized
approach at the level of the hydrographic units that make up basins, i.e. water catchment
areas for surfacewater, aquifers for groundwater, and joint management of surface and
groundwater based on the hydrographic basin’s boundaries. At the INBO’s General
Assemblies inMorelia, Valencia, Salvador, Zapopan, Quebec, Martinique, Debrecen, Dakar and
Fortaleza, it particularly recommended that agreements and strategies, programmes, financing
andmonitoring should all be devised at basin level.
1 INTRODUCTION
THEHANDBOOK FORMANAGEMENT
ANDRESTORATIONOF AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS INRIVERAND LAKE BASINS
